Evaluating the Effects of Agricultural Specialized Training on Income of Graduates of Technical and Vocational Training Center of Babolsar

According to importance of education and training of semi-skilled labors for employing in various production and services sectors and also importance of pre and post researches on performance of such training, this research aimed to evaluate the entrepreneurship of agricultural specialized training in the technical and vocational training organization according to the standards of the International Labor organization. To conduct this evaluation, the data related to the earned income, the final evaluation scores, number of visits for advice and the received loans of a sample of 100 graduates of various branches of agricultural sciences from technical and vocational training center of Babolsar during 1389 and 1390 were collected and after averaging was used. In the first stage, the affecting intensity and direction of graduate's income from three mentioned independent variables using a linear regression was measured and in the next stage the relationship among these three independent variables and the efficiency of graduates in a Data Envelopment Analysis framework was evaluated. The results of this study indicates that despite of a positive and significant effect of three variables of the final evaluation scores, number of visits for advice and the received loans on the earned income of the technical and vocational training center of Babolsar, the performance of these three variables can be increased. Therefore, some more effective planning and policy makings are required.