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Perceived Economic Benefits of Higher Education: The Case of Cyprus

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  • Maria Eliophotou Menon

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The paper examines the costs and economic benefits of higher education as these are perceived by final-form secondary school students in Cyprus. It also investigates the main influences on students' expected lifetime earnings. The findings are supportive of human capital theory: students who intended to enter third-level education expected their lifetime earnings to increase considerably as a result. In contrast, labour market entrants did not associate higher education with significantly higher earnings; they also believed its costs to be greater than those reported by higher education entrants. Moreover, the results indicate that student are largely realistic in their perceptions of the structure of earnings in the labour market.

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  • Maria Eliophotou Menon, 1997. "Perceived Economic Benefits of Higher Education: The Case of Cyprus," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 53-61.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:edecon:v:5:y:1997:i:1:p:53-61
    DOI: 10.1080/09645299700000004
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    1. Botelho, Anabela & Pinto, Ligia Costa, 2004. "Students' expectations of the economic returns to college education: results of a controlled experiment," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 23(6), pages 645-653, December.
    2. Webbink, Dinand & Hartog, Joop, 2004. "Can students predict starting salaries? Yes!," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 23(2), pages 103-113, April.
    3. Abbas Bazargan & Mohammad Eftekhar Ardebili & Mohammad Zarei & Rohollah Ghasemi, 2017. "The Relationship Between ‘Higher Education and Training’ and ‘Business Sophistication’," Iranian Economic Review (IER), Faculty of Economics,University of Tehran.Tehran,Iran, vol. 21(2), pages 319-341, Spring.
    4. Krzysztof Kalisiak & Małgorzata Szreder & Kaja Białowąs, 2011. "Finansowy i niefinansowy zwrot z edukacji," Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, issue 9, pages 77-102.

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