Regional Disparities in Education Attainment Level in the European Union: A Spatial Approach

Chocholatá Michaela () and Furková Andrea ()
Additional contact information
Chocholatá Michaela: Department of Operations Research and Econometrics, Faculty of Economic Informatics, University of Economics in Bratislava, Dolnozemská cesta 1, Bratislava852 35, Slovakia
Furková Andrea: Department of Operations Research and Econometrics, Faculty of Economic Informatics, University of Economics in Bratislava, Dolnozemská cesta 1, Bratislava852 35, Slovakia

TalTech Journal of European Studies, 2017, vol. 7, issue 2, 107-131

Abstract: This article deals with the analysis of education attainment level across the 252 NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (EU) with consideration of the spatial aspect. Since the individual EU regions cannot be seen as isolated, the main aim of this article is to assess the impact of location on the education attainment level (percentage of population aged 25–64 with at least upper secondary education) during the period 2007–2015, as well as to investigate the impact of regional growth 2014/2007 on the education attainment level in 2015. The spatial analysis proved the existence of positive spatial autocorrelation and persistence of disparities in education attainment level across EU regions during the analysed period. The results of econometric analysis confirmed the expected positive impact of economic growth on education attainment level as well as the necessity to incorporate the spatial dimension into the model.

Keywords: education attainment level; EU regions; exploratory spatial data analysis; spatial econometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2017-0012 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:bjeust:v:7:y:2017:i:2:p:107-131:n:5

DOI: 10.1515/bjes-2017-0012

Access Statistics for this article

TalTech Journal of European Studies is currently edited by Tanel Kerikmäe and Matti Rudanko

More articles in TalTech Journal of European Studies from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().