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Table 2 Private and fiscal returns to schooling

From: The costs of early school leaving in Europe

Country

After-tax rate of return to an additional year of schooling

Recovery rates on educational expenditure

Austria

8.52%

37.50%

Belgium

7.47%

108.58%

Denmark

7.99%

12.93%

Finland

9.98%

154.93%

France

8.63%

93.96%

Germany

9.13%

139.15%

Greece

9.18%

84.64%

Ireland

11.03%

201.31%

Italy

8.44%

82.99%

Netherlands

6.95%

37.98%

Portugal

10.30%

57.08%

Spain

7.50%

126.63%

Sweden

4.28%

-26.07%

UK

12.25%

115.21%

  1. Source: De la Fuente and Jimeno (2009).