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Krafft, Caroline; Branson, Zea; Flak, Taylor – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
The Middle East and North Africa region has the world's lowest returns to education. This paper examines what the value of a degree is using nationally representative labour market surveys from Egypt (2012), Jordan (2010) and Tunisia (2014). Specifically, the authors estimate Mincer models for levels and years of schooling. They find that returns…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Educational Attainment, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
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Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos – Education Economics, 2011
This paper examines the wage returns to qualifications and academic disciplines in the Greek labour market. Exploring wage responsiveness across various degree subjects in Greece is interesting, as it is characterised by high levels of graduate unemployment, which vary considerably with the field of study, and relatively low levels of wage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Higher Education, Educational Change