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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  

injection to the circular flow of income.

However, there is uncertainty of value of private benefit gained by university graduates.


Because there may be structural unemployment. The education gained from university may  

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  

resulting in occupational immobility. In addition, there must be a time lag between  

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  

gain higher salaries.

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  

may not increase(productive potentials may decline). Also, putting an accurate  

value on the positive externalities generated by education is highly complex in reality


   

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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