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Private benefits are benefits that directly to the consumers or producers from economic
activity. In contrast, external benefits are positive spillover effects of consumption or
production they bring benefits to the third party.
In a free market, individual consumers only consider the private benefits in the consumption
of merit goods(university education). they ignore the full social benefit of their actions(the
positive externality in the form of benefits to third parties) due to self interest and because
they lack adequate information to understand the true private and social benefit. As a result,
resources are allocated at the private equilibrium of P1 and Q1 in the market instead of the
social optimum P* and Q*. this generates a welfare loss(triangle area) with society losing
out units that are not produced beyond Q1 up to Q* that would have generated more
benefits to society than cost. the private benefit that students can gain is that occupational
mobility may increase as students could be more skilled and higher educated, so they may
gain higher productivity and hence earning potentials may increase in the long run.
according to the abstract 1, a graduate from university may gain an extra 160000 of average
higher earnings over working life than non-graduates with A-levels. In addition, there must
be extra benefits of higher education. for instance, the firms which hire university graduates
may decrease the costs of production and hence the products the firms produced may be
more price competitive, so foreign demand for the products may increase and hence
exports revenue may increase. As a result, aggregate demand for the country may increase
as net exports(X-M) is a main factor of AD. (foreign direct investment may increase because
the country's labors are more skilled due to higher educational level, higher productivity of
labors may decrease the costs of production, so aggregate demand may increase as I is an
mismatch the requirement of the job position provided by the firms. For instance, a students
who major in textile, however with greater foreign competition from East and South East
Asia, the advantage of the education was lost. The consequence was that those graduates
with skills in such manufacturing industries could not substitute to other jobs in the economy
university study and the reward of increased earnings. Because it may take a long time for a
new graduates to become a manager in a famous company due to low working experience
and quallfications. It takes at least 3-5 years for them to become more efficient and
productive. They may get promoted and take more responsibility in the long run and hence
However, there is uncertainty of value of external benefit gained by the whole economy.
There is probably a brain drain as some graduates move abroad to work. For instance,
those graduates may immigrate to China, which is an emerging economy with large market.
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As a result, human capitals in UK are not accumulated and hence long run aggregate supply
so the positive contribution to the whole economy from the education cannot be quantified.
However, it must be sure that new staffs will still gat trained when they get their first job so
the value of external benefits may be exaggerated.
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