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Analysis of economic benefits of education

The study, which analyzes the economic benefits of education, divided into three parts. The first section gives a brief theoretical explanation of the variables that are used in this paper to analyze the importance of human capital and the educational system and economic benefits to society can bring. The second section presents the methodology and explains the data used for research and analysis on countries of the world. Variables used in the work and analyzes have been primarily, gross domestic product per capita and relative earnings of the population with income from employment (2010 or latest available year) by level of educational attainment in three kategories: below upper secondary education, post – secondary non – tertiary education and all tertiary education. Data refer to the academic year 2009/2010 and are based on the UOE data collection on education statistics administered by the OECD in 2010. Gross domestic product per capita (GDP p.c.) represent economic development of countries. The third part gives an analysis and interpretation of results of studies showing the impact analysis of different levels of income realized by the employees according to different degrees, or education level. The study aims to test the hypothesis that investment in education has a positive and significant impact on the economic development of countries. The study also aims to test the hypothesis that people with higher education or with higher educational attainment, generally achieve significantly higher rates of return through income from his salary and that investment in education is positively and significantly affects the level of their salaries.

human capital ; expense ; education ; economic benefit ; knowledge ; GDP

Okrugli stol Znanje, edukacija, mediji : radovi uz znanstveno-istraživački projekt Tehnologije digitalnih medija i društveno-obrazovne promjene (2 ; 2012)