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Klazar, Stanislav; Sedmihradský, Milan; Vančurová, Alena

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“…For example,Flanagan (1998),Chase (1998), Filer et al (1999,Munich et al (2005a,b),Klazar et al (2001) andVecernik (2001) for the Czech Republic;Campos and Jolliffe (2003) andKertesi and Kollo (2002) for Hungary;Stanovnik (1997) andOrazem and Vodopivec (1997) for Slovenia;Bird et al (1994) for East Germany;Gorodnichenko and Sabirianova (2005) for Russia and Ukraine;Andrén et al (2005) for Romania;…”

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Returns to basic skills in central and eastern Europe

Denny¹,

Doyle²

2009

Economics of Transition

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This article uses semi-parametric econometric techniques to investigate the relationship between basic skills and earnings in three post-communist countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia, using the International Adult Literacy Survey dataset. It finds that including a measure of basic skills in a Mincer model reduces the returns to education. In addition, using a partially linear model, in which log earnings is linear in education but is an arbitrary function of basic skills, it finds that this relationship is not well described by the common assumption of linearity at the tails of the distribution. Copyright (c) 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation (c) 2010 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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Returns to basic skills in central and eastern Europe

Denny¹,

Doyle²

2009

Economics of Transition

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‘Been there, done that’: international student migration and human capital transfers from the UK to Slovakia

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Williams

2004

Population Space and Place

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International student migration remains an under-researched field in migration studies, and this is especially true of return migration. This paper analyses students from Slovakia who have studied in the UK, both on degree courses and language/vocational courses, and have subsequently returned to their country of origin. It analyses their motivations, their acquisition of human capital in the UK, and the extent to which they have been able to realise individual welfare gains after returning to Slovakia. The students' evaluations of their experiences are highly positive, with substantial numbers also reporting improvements in their jobs and incomes, even following relatively short stays abroad. The study emphasises the importance of the specific competences acquired by the students, rather than broad skill categories, or qualifications. It highlights the value attached to language competence, in particular, but also to learning, attitudinal and inter-personal competences, as well as networking. The paper concludes that there is a need to pay more attention to individual social biographies when understanding the relationship between migration and learning. At the same time, it also stresses structural parameters to individual agency, including the specific economic conditions in a transition economy, and the market value of competence in English as a world language.

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The Returns to Investment in Higher Education

Psacharopoulos

2014

Using Data to Improve Higher Education

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Returns to basic skills in central and eastern Europe

Returns to basic skills in central and eastern Europe

‘Been there, done that’: international student migration and human capital transfers from the UK to Slovakia

The Returns to Investment in Higher Education

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