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The labour market effects of the Polish educational reform of 1999
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Abstract We estimate the effect of the 1999 education reform in Poland on employment and earnings. The 1999 education reform in Poland replaced the previous 8 years of general and 3/4/5 years of tracked secondary education with 9 years of general and 3/3/4 years of tracked upper-secondary education. The refo... view more
We estimate the effect of the 1999 education reform in Poland on employment and earnings. The 1999 education reform in Poland replaced the previous 8 years of general and 3/4/5 years of tracked secondary education with 9 years of general and 3/3/4 years of tracked upper-secondary education. The reform also introduced new curricula, national examinations, teacher standards, and a transparent financing scheme. Our identification strategy relies on a difference-in-differences approach using a quasi-panel of pooled year-of-survey and age-of-respondent observations from the Polish sample of the EU-SILC database. The results indicate that the reform has increased employment probability (by around 3 percentage points) and earnings (by around 4%).... view less
Keywords
Poland; educational reform; labor market; effect on employment; twentieth century; secondary education; primary education; education system
Classification
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
returns to education; detracking; difference-in-differences; EU-SILC 2005-2013
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-21
Journal
Journal for Labour Market Research, 56 (2022)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-022-00317-4
ISSN
1867-8343
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed