What is it about?
The paper examines returns to education in Bulgaria in two observed economic regimes - from communism to EU membership. We find a a steady increase in returns to education for both men and women until 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.
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Why is it important?
We suggest possible explanations for such a puzzle and shed lights on a number of insightful policy implications.
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This page is a summary of: From Soviet to Europe: Returns to Education Puzzle in Bulgaria, Labour, July 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/labr.12080.
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