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dc.contributor.authorStaneva, Anita V
dc.contributor.authorAbdel-Latif, Hany
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-29T05:46:13Z
dc.date.available2023-06-29T05:46:13Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn1121-7081en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/labr.12080en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/407260
dc.description.abstractThis article makes a systematic presentation of returns to education in Bulgaria, a country that has witnessed a number of dramatic structural changes over the last two decades. It examines the headway of returns to education for Bulgaria in two observed economic regimes — from communism to EU membership. The findings show a steady increase in returns to education for both men and women until 2003. The average returns to one additional year of education rose from 1.1 per cent in 1986 to 5.1 per cent in 2003 for men and from 2.1 to 5.9 per cent for women. Quantile regression estimations between 1986 and 2003 evince that the most prominent increase in the wage premium occurred at the top end of the distribution, where the rate of returns to education increased in particular for women — from a negative and insignificant sign in 1986 to 7 per cent in 2003. However, this increasing trend in returns to education seems to take an inverted U-shape in 2007, the year when the country joined the EU, which poses a new puzzle to be resolved. To this end, the current article introduces possible explanations for such a puzzle and sheds lights on a number of insightful policy implications.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom347en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto367en_US
dc.relation.ispartofissue3en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalLABOURen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume30en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCurriculum and pedagogyen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman resources and industrial relationsen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economicsen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3901en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3505en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801en_US
dc.titleFrom Soviet to Europe: Returns to Education Puzzle in Bulgariaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articlesen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationStaneva, AV; Abdel-Latif, H, From Soviet to Europe: Returns to Education Puzzle in Bulgaria, LABOUR, 2016, 30 (3), pp. 347-367en_US
dc.date.updated2021-08-24T23:12:15Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2016 CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Staneva, AV; Abdel-Latif, H, From Soviet to Europe: Returns to Education Puzzle in Bulgaria, LABOUR, 2016, 30 (3), pp. 347-367, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12080. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.en_US
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