Cognitive skills or diplomas – what matters more for wages in Poland?

Tomasz Drabowicz; Maja Rynko

doi:10.18778/0208-600X.95.02

Autor

Tomasz Drabowicz University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of Rural and Urban Studies and Sociology of Social Change https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7925-696X
Maja Rynko SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Institute of Statistics and Demography https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3064-7492

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/0208-600X.95.02

Słowa kluczowe:

zwrot z umiejętności, edukacja formalna, zarobki, umiejętności kognitywne, Polska, PIAAC, postPIAAC

Abstrakt

Istnieje obszerna – i stale rosnąca – literatura dostarczająca dowodów o znaczeniu formalnego wykształcenia i umiejętności poznawczych dla indywidualnych wynagrodzeń we współczesnych gospodarkach i społeczeństwach opartych na wiedzy. Międzynarodowe Badanie Kompetencji Osób Dorosłych OECD (PIAAC) dostarcza miar umiejętności rozumienia tekstu i rozumowania matematycznego, które są wykorzystywane w wielu analizach. Polskie badanie uzupełniające PIAAC (postPIAAC) obejmuje pomiar innego czynnika umiejętności poznawczych, a mianowicie szybkości kodowania. W niniejszym artykule stosujemy regresję płacową Mincera do oceny zwrotów z edukacji formalnej, umiejętności rozumowania matematycznego, szybkości kodowania i szeregu zmiennych kontrolnych wykorzystując polskie dane PIAAC i postPIAAC. Wyniki potwierdzają ustalenia z innych analiz, że to formalne wykształcenie ma większe znaczenie dla wynagrodzeń w Polsce niż umiejętności kognitywne.

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