Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74866 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 314
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the evolution of private returns to tertiary education during the period of transition from a socialist to a market economy using the personal income tax data of all Slovenian workers employed between 1994 and 2008. We document a rich interplay between supply and demand in the labor markets of high school and university graduates. We show that, in spite of signi cant increases in the labor supply, the demand for university graduates dominated and increased the rates of return in the early period of transition (1994-2001), while in the later period (2001-2008) the opposite was the case. We also provide evidence on considerable heterogeneity in the rates of return between genders, levels, and elds of study, with particularly large (low) returns to the elds that were suppressed (favored) during socialism. These initial di erences in returns have, however, gradually declined.
Subjects: 
Returns to Education
Tertiary Education
Fields of Study
Mincerian Regressions
JEL: 
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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