Using data for Germany and 23 other economies in Eastern and Western Europe, this paper estimates the monetary returns to education acquired under communism more than 10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We show that, in the 2000s, Eastern European workers who completed their education under communism earned in the 2000s similar returns to their education as did workers belonging to the same age cohorts who studied in Western Europe. This might suggest that education under communism is still as valuable as education attained in Western Europe. However, individuals educated under communism are more likely than their Western counterparts to be unemployed, retired or disabled, and therefore to earn lower or zero returns to their educati...
Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies ...
This paper explores why previous research failed to find any empirical evidence confirming the succe...
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this...
Using data for Germany and 23 other economies in Eastern and Western Europe, this paper estimates th...
Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied unde...
This paper studies a sample of economies in transition to verify the assertion that returns to schoo...
This research examines how the earnings structure in the Czech Republic and Slovakia changed after t...
This research examines differences in earnings structure between Communist and post-Communist Czech ...
We estimate returns to human capital during communism and the transition using data on 2,284 men in ...
How valuable are the education and skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This paper u...
10965 words including everything Work in progress, please do not quote. Comments very welcome. Prior...
This paper presents a set of cross-country estimates on rates of return within a broadly comparable ...
A large body of empirical literature documents the rise in returns to edu-cation occurring during ea...
The past trends in tertiary education attainment of selected post-communist countries are investigat...
This paper presents a set of cross-country estimates on rates of return within a broadly comparable ...
Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies ...
This paper explores why previous research failed to find any empirical evidence confirming the succe...
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this...
Using data for Germany and 23 other economies in Eastern and Western Europe, this paper estimates th...
Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied unde...
This paper studies a sample of economies in transition to verify the assertion that returns to schoo...
This research examines how the earnings structure in the Czech Republic and Slovakia changed after t...
This research examines differences in earnings structure between Communist and post-Communist Czech ...
We estimate returns to human capital during communism and the transition using data on 2,284 men in ...
How valuable are the education and skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This paper u...
10965 words including everything Work in progress, please do not quote. Comments very welcome. Prior...
This paper presents a set of cross-country estimates on rates of return within a broadly comparable ...
A large body of empirical literature documents the rise in returns to edu-cation occurring during ea...
The past trends in tertiary education attainment of selected post-communist countries are investigat...
This paper presents a set of cross-country estimates on rates of return within a broadly comparable ...
Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies ...
This paper explores why previous research failed to find any empirical evidence confirming the succe...
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this...