This paper uses the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), a household-based survey designed to measure systematically the reforms in Russia, for the years 1994-98. It utilises standard Mincer analysis to assess the returns to education as well as to specific levels of post-compulsory...

Education is the augmentation of the stock of skills, knowledge and understanding possessed either by individuals or by society as a whole. Therefore any study of the economics of education and training concerns the manner in which choices affecting this stock are made. This paper uses the...