<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article deals with the analysis of education attainment level across the 252 NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (EU) with consideration of the spatial aspect. Since the individual EU regions cannot be seen as isolated, the main aim of this article is to assess the impact of location on the education attainment level (percentage of population aged 25–64 with at least upper secondary education) during the period 2007–2015, as well as to investigate the impact of regional growth 2014/2007 on the education attainment level in 2015. The spatial analysis proved the existence of positive spatial autocorrelation and persistence of disparities in education attainment level across EU regions during the analysed period. The results of econometric analysis confirmed the expected positive impact of economic growth on education attainment level as well as the necessity to incorporate the spatial dimension into the model.</p></abstract>

This article deals with the analysis of education attainment level across the 252 NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (EU) with consideration of the spatial aspect. Since the individual EU regions cannot be seen as isolated, the main aim of this article is to assess the impact of location on the education attainment level (percentage of population aged 25–64 with at least upper secondary education) during the period 2007–2015, as well as to investigate the impact of regional growth 2014/2007 on the education attainment level in 2015. The spatial analysis proved the existence of positive spatial autocorrelation and persistence of disparities in education attainment level across EU regions during the analysed period. The results of econometric analysis confirmed the expected positive impact of economic growth on education attainment level as well as the necessity to incorporate the spatial dimension into the model.

Regional Disparities in Education Attainment Level in the European Union: A Spatial Approach

Department of Operations Research and Econometrics, Faculty of Economic Informatics

TalTech Journal of European Studies

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This article deals with the analysis of education attainment level across the 252 NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (EU) with consideration of the spatial...

Regional Disparities in Education Attainment Level in the European Union: A Spatial Approach

Published Online: Nov 10, 2017

Page range: 107 - 131

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2017-0012

Keywords
education attainment level, EU regions, exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial econometrics

© 2017 Michaela Chocholatá et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Regional Disparities in Education Attainment Level in the European Union: A Spatial Approach

Published Online: Nov 10, 2017

Page range: 107 - 131

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2017-0012

Keywordseducation attainment level, EU regions, exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial econometrics

© 2017 Michaela Chocholatá et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
education attainment level, EU regions, exploratory spatial data analysis, spatial econometrics