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EDUCATIONAL ASSORTATIVE MATING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY BETWEEN 1976 AND 2003

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Katmak T.

Sociológia (Sociology)

2008

vol. 40

issue 3

236-257

The paper deals with educational homogamy over years within the last quarter of the 20th century in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. All the marriages entered into in these countries between 1976 and 2003 (in three-year periods) are analyzed and the temporal and spatial variation of educational homogamy is explored. Log-linear and log-multiplicative models are used. The major aim of the paper is to answer the question on how educational homogamy developed in post-socialist countries before 1989 as well as following it and how individual post-socialist countries differ among themselves on the basis of these developments. Results show that in terms of spatial variation both in 1976 and in 2003 relative educational homogamy was the lowest in the Czech Republic, it was somewhat higher in Hungary and the highest in Slovakia. In terms of temporal variation in all three countries one can observe the same development which has the shape of 'U'. From 1976 to the beginning of the 1990s educational homogamy was on the decrease, during the first half of the 1990s it reached its minimum and from the second half of the 1990s it strengthened either rapidly (in the Czech Republic and Slovakia) or only gradually (in the case of Hungary). In all the countries under study the development of educational homogamy also involved the transformation of the pattern of educational assortative mating which, however, is not the same in all the countries.

EUROPEAN COMPARISON OF INTERGENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN PRIVATE RETURNS TOEDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF TERTIARY EDUCATION EXPANSION

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Štefánik M.

Sociológia (Sociology)

2014

vol. 46

issue 3

243 – 260

This paper provides an international comparison of private returns to education which is put into the context of recent increase in tertiary education accessibility. We compare post-socialistic Central European countries: Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia to countries of continental Western Europe: Austria, Belgium, Germany, France and Luxembourg. Micro-data from the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions are utilised in order to estimate private returns to education using Mincerian earning regressions. We have found out that while in West European countries the returns to tertiary education acquired after 1995 are higher than returns to tertiary education acquired before 1995, which is in line with expectations based on obsolescence of education, this is not true for the post-socialistic countries. The Central European, post-socialistic countries provide evidence on decline in private returns to education acquired after 1995. This could be related with the character of tertiary education expansion, which was more intensive in post-socialistic countries and rather continuous in the countries of continental Western Europe.

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EDUCATIONAL ASSORTATIVE MATING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY BETWEEN 1976 AND 2003

EUROPEAN COMPARISON OF INTERGENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN PRIVATE RETURNS TOEDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF TERTIARY EDUCATION EXPANSION