Reaching High: Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK

Arbeitspapier

We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the system of Higher Education by giving all polytechnics university status. We show that wage differentials can be explained by a glass ceiling which prevented polytechnic graduates from reaching managerial and professional occupations. After the reform, they overtook graduates of traditional universities in terms of average wages.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-3-86788-432-7
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 377

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Higher Education; Research Institutions ; Education and Inequality ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; National Government Expenditures and Education
• Thema: higher education ; wage differentials ; occupational sorting ; glass ceiling ; United Kingdom

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Kleibrink, Jan ; Michaelsen, Maren M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
• (wo): Essen
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.4419/86788432
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67133
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ