Bridging the Aboriginal education gap in Saskatchewan /

The Impact of Education on Earnings 4 Read the First Two Sections of This Paper, Even if You Skip the Rest 4 The More You Learn the More You Earn, Especially Aboriginal People 6 General Considerations for the Earnings Numbers 11 The Computations 15 How These Findings Relate to Other Studies 22 Undiscounted Earnings 23 References for Part I 26 List of Tables for Part I Table 1. Lifetime earnings fo [...] Part II of the report outlines what it would take to bridge the Aboriginal education gap and asks the pertinent question, “How much is Saskatchewan’s economy wasting because of the Aboriginal education gap?” Howe shows the individual and social benefits of bridging that gap. [...] To put the findings into context, Howe notes that the economic benefit of closing the Aboriginal education gap in Saskatchewan amounts to 20% more than all sales of potash in the history of Saskatchewan. [...] While Howe concedes that many readers will be surprised at the size of the of the per-student benefit, he notes that the numbers are low in that they actually leave out a large portion of the benefits of SUNTEP graduates. [...] In fact, the largest two numbers in Table 6 are for the increase in the earnings of female Métis and North American Indians because they receive a triple benefit from education: earnings increase from the usual effect of education, from catching up with male earnings, and from catching up with non-Aboriginal earnings.