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Measuring Returns to Education: The Case of Latvia

Kārlis VilertsSvetlana Saksonova

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Economic growthbusiness.industryEthnic groupContext (language use)Regression analysisGeneral MedicineMarket researchEconomicsmedia_common.cataloged_instanceDemographic economicsEuropean unionEmerging marketsbusinessmedia_common

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This paper aims to measure returns to education in Latvia and place them in context of data available in other countries. The goals of this paper are to review the literature on returns to education, highlighting the measurement challenges, and, based on the 2011 labour market survey data, estimate private returns to education in Latvia overall as well as by individual characteristics. The main findings are that returns to education in Latvia are close to the European Union average, but lower than in some emerging markets e.g. Lithuania, and that there are statistically significant differences in returns to education depending on a person’s gender, ethnicity, field of employment and location.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2015-07-01Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
https://doi.org/10.1515/aicue-2015-0017