The economic content of complementarity of educational services in theory and practice
Abstract. The article presents the results of studying the concept of "complementarity" as applied to educational services and the possibilities of their provision. With regard to graduates of vocational educational institutions, the change in the strength of the impact of the complementarity of the education received and work experience on the assessment of work by employers overtime is shown. It is revealed that the signaling effect of havinga vocational education is most pronounced in the early stages of a working career, weakening subsequently. Consideration of the complementarity of traditional education and online learning made it possible to establish the need and possibility of their joint mutually beneficial development. Along with the new positive opportunities opening up for the Russian education sector, the macroeconomic condition for the practical implementation of the described scenario for its further growth is indicated.
Keywords: complementarity, educational services, vocational education, signaling effect, work experience, knowledge, skills, traditional education, online training.
Highlights:
- expressed through a combination of complementarity and consistency, complementarity is inherent in the actions of any rational economic entity, especially in intellectual activity, which can legitimately include educational services;
- the ratio of the influence of complementary professional training and work experience on the employer`s assessment of work varies at different stages of the career, changing over time against the first complement;
- there is a strong complementarity between traditional educational services and those provided online, with the latter currently playing a complementary role;
- the fundamental importance of state participation in the development of educational services is substantiated, and the significance of increasing the well-being of the population as a condition for mass acquisition of modern knowledge is established.
Viacheslav A. Perepelkin - Samara State University of Economics, Samara, Russia; Anna A. Romanova - Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev, Orel, Russia; PetrA. Romanov - Yandex LLC, Moscow, Russia