The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK

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This paper reports estimates of the UK 'college premium' for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply considerably outstripped demand which ought to imply a fall in the premium. We find no significant fall for men and even a large, but insignificant, rise for women. Quantile regression results reveal a fall in the premium only for men in the bottom quartile of the distribution of unobserved skills.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Department of Economics Discussion Paper ; No. 08,09

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
• Subject: human capital ; higher education ; college premium ; Studium ; Bildungsniveau ; Bildungsertrag ; Einkommen ; Großbritannien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Kent, Department of Economics
• (where): Canterbury
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/50586
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