Regional Variation of Returns to Education

Mikaela Backman

No 300, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: Returns to education are mainly influenced by the characteristics of the individual. However, returns are also likely to depend on location characteristics. Thus, there are different location premiums for educational attainment. This paper analyse the regional variation of returns to education where Swedish municipal markets are divided into four categories based on size and commuting patterns. Through the obtained results, the often-assumed hypothesis of equal returns to education for all regions in a country can be rejected. Highest returns to education are found in municipalities in metropolitan functional regions and the lowest in peripheral municipalities in small functional regions.

Keywords: Returns to education; regional attributes; fixed-effects model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I21 I22 J61 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2013-03-15
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-geo, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-ure
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