An employer-based sample of over 660,000 Czech and 260,000 Slovak workers is used to estimate the benefits of education in 1995 to 1997. By 1997 education of all types had become substantially more highly rewarded in both countries than it was either under communism or in the early years of the...

An employer-based sample of over between 200,000 and 300,000 Czech and 50,000 to 100,000 Slovak workers is used to estimate returns to various forms of human capital between 1995 and 1997 (to be extended to 1998). By 1997 education of all types had become substantially more highly rewarded in...