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A kognitív készségek hatása a diplomás bérekre
The Impact of Cognitive Skills on Earnings of Graduates

Author(s): Anna Sebők
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: competences; HE return; tracking; cognitive skills

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the role of cognitive skills in the return to higher education (HE) in Hungary. It makes use of linked Hungarian administrative data, which contains labor market and educational information of about 50 percent of the Hungarian population, for the period of 2003 and 2017 (Sebők 2019). The estimates are focused on the early carrier path of HE graduates who completed their National Assessment of Basic Competencies 10th class tests in 2008. The paper uses Mincer-type regression models with the test scores as the the proxy variables of cognitive skills.

  • Issue Year: 30/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 280-300
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Hungarian
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