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Does Private and Cost-Priced Higher Education Produce Poor Quality?

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  • Péter Galasi

    (BUESPA, Department of Human Resources H-1093 Budapest, Fővám tér 8, Hungary)

  • Júlia Varga

    (Human Resources Department, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration H-1093 Budapest, Fővám tér 8, Hungary)

Abstract

Since the beginning of the transition, Hungarian higher education has been undergoing continuous transformation. The number of students in higher education more than doubled, and this was accompanied by the appearance of newly founded church-run and private higher education institutions and newly established cost-priced places. The paper focuses on the potential negative effects private and cost-priced higher education might have on the quality of education and students, by making use of labour-market-success indicators (wages and labour-market status) with the help of multivariate estimation techniques. A unique data set, the Second FIDÉV Survey, is used which provides information about the September 2000 labour-market situation of persons graduated from higher education in 1999. The results suggest that education at cost-priced, state-funded places and private higher-education institutions provides essentially the same level of knowledge or produces the same educational quality as measured by wages. No negative effect has been detected as for the labour-market status of ex-students. Students graduating from cost-priced places and private institutions experience the same unemployment probability, whereas the overall employment probability of students graduated from cost-priced places is higher than that of persons studied at state-funded ones. One can conclude that although the opportunity of establishing more and more cost-priced places might have been advantageous for higher-education institutions so as to increase their revenues, they have shown some self-restraint in this respect, and there is no sign that the increase in cost-priced places has led to lower-quality workers.

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  • Péter Galasi & Júlia Varga, 2002. "Does Private and Cost-Priced Higher Education Produce Poor Quality?," Society and Economy, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 24(3), pages 333-361, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:soceco:v:24:y:2002:i:3:p:333-361
    Note: The research in this paper was undertaken with support from the European Community's Phare ACE Programme 1998 within the project (P98-1020-R) "Should Free Entry of Universities be Liberalised? Estimating the Value of Public and Private Higher Education In Central and Eastern Europe". The content of the publication is the sole responsibility of the authors and it in no way represent the views of the European Commission or its services.
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    1. Tarjáni, Hajnalka, 2006. "A technológiai fejlődés és a kereskedelem hatása a szakképzettségi prémiumra [Analysing the impacts of technological development and trade on the skill premium in Hungary]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(3), pages 226-234.
    2. Karoly Fazekas & Gabor Kezdi (ed.), 2007. "The Hungarian Labour Market 2007," The Hungarian Labour Market Yearbooks, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, number 2007, December.
    3. Annamária INZELT, 2008. "Strengthen And Upgrade Regional Capabilities (Regional University Knowledge Centre Programme In Hungary)," Romanian Journal of Economics, Institute of National Economy, vol. 26(1(35)), pages 133-154, June.
    4. Peter Galasi, 2003. "Estimating wage equations for Hungarian higher-education graduates," Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market 0304, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.

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