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Cognitive skills or diplomas – what matters more for wages in Poland?

dc.contributor.authorDrabowicz, Tomasz
dc.contributor.authorRynko, Maja
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-29T18:42:20Z
dc.date.available2025-12-29T18:42:20Z
dc.date.issued2025-12-23
dc.identifier.issn0208-600X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/57123
dc.description.abstractA vast – and constantly growing – literature provides evidence on the importance of formal education and cognitive skills on individual wages in contemporary, knowledge-based economies and societies. The OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) provides measures of literacy and numeracy that have been used in numerous analyses. The Polish follow-up study of PIAAC (postPIAAC) includes a measure of another factor of cognitive skills, namely, processing speed. In this paper, we apply the Mincerian wage regression to assess the returns to formal education, numeracy, processing speed, and several control variables using the Polish PIAAC and postPIAAC data. The results confirm the findings from other analyses that formal education matters more than cognitive skills for wages in Poland.en
dc.description.abstractIstnieje obszerna – i stale rosnąca – literatura dostarczająca dowodów o znaczeniu formalnego wykształcenia i umiejętności poznawczych dla indywidualnych wynagrodzeń we współczesnych gospodarkach i społeczeństwach opartych na wiedzy. Międzynarodowe Badanie Kompetencji Osób Dorosłych OECD (PIAAC) dostarcza miar umiejętności rozumienia tekstu i rozumowania matematycznego, które są wykorzystywane w wielu analizach. Polskie badanie uzupełniające PIAAC (postPIAAC) obejmuje pomiar innego czynnika umiejętności poznawczych, a mianowicie szybkości kodowania. W niniejszym artykule stosujemy regresję płacową Mincera do oceny zwrotów z edukacji formalnej, umiejętności rozumowania matematycznego, szybkości kodowania i szeregu zmiennych kontrolnych wykorzystując polskie dane PIAAC i postPIAAC. Wyniki potwierdzają ustalenia z innych analiz, że to formalne wykształcenie ma większe znaczenie dla wynagrodzeń w Polsce niż umiejętności kognitywne.pl
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica;95pl
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectreturns to skillsen
dc.subjectformal educationen
dc.subjectearningsen
dc.subjectcognitive skillsen
dc.subjectPolanden
dc.subjectPIAACen
dc.subjectpostPIAACen
dc.subjectzwrot z umiejętnościpl
dc.subjectedukacja formalnapl
dc.subjectzarobkipl
dc.subjectumiejętności kognitywnepl
dc.subjectPolskapl
dc.subjectPIAACpl
dc.subjectpostPIAACpl
dc.titleCognitive skills or diplomas – what matters more for wages in Poland?en
dc.title.alternativeZdolności poznawcze czy dyplom – co się w Polsce bardziej opłaca?pl
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number23-43
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationDrabowicz, Tomasz - University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of Rural and Urban Studies and Sociology of Social Changeen
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationRynko, Maja - SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Institute of Statistics and Demographyen
dc.identifier.eissn2353-4850
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dc.contributor.authorEmailDrabowicz, Tomasz - tomasz.drabowicz@uni.lodz.pl
dc.contributor.authorEmailRynko, Maja - maja.rynko@sgh.waw.pl
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/0208-600X.95.02


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