Mennyit ér a diploma a kétezres években Magyarországon?
Tertiary-level attainment of the population and the labor market value of higher education in the 2000s in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The paper investigates the effects of the expansion of higher education: how the proportion of the population with a tertiary-level education has changed in the last decade and how the labor market prospects of young graduates have altered as the supply of college and university graduates has increased. Results show us that despite the sharp increases in enrolment rates, the proportion of the younger population with tertiary education is well under the EU19 average; while the amount of older citizens with tertiary- level education is also below the OECD average, albeit to a lesser extent. The analysis suggests that despite the large rises in HE participation there has been very little reduction in wage premiums or employment opportunities for graduates in general, though labor market prospects for graduates from college-level higher education have indeed worsened in recent years.

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