The big sort: College reputation and labor market outcomes.

Autor/inn/en	MacLeod, W. Bentley; Riehl; Evan; Saavedra, Juan E.; Urquiola, Miguel
Titel	The big sort: College reputation and labor market outcomes. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: The Big Sort: die Reputation von Hochschulen und Arbeitsmarkterträge.
Quelle	In: American economic journal. Applied economics, 9 (2017) 3, S. 223-261 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1945-7782; 1945-7790
DOI	10.1257/app.20160126
Schlagwörter	Image; Bildungsertrag; College; Einkommenseffekt; Einkommenshöhe; Arbeitsmarktchance; Hochschulbildung; Universität; Studienortwahl; Hochschulabsolvent; Kolumbien
Abstract	"We explore how college reputation affects the 'big sort,' the process by which students choose colleges and find their first jobs. We incorporate a simple definition of college reputation -- graduates' mean admission scores -- into a competitive labor market model. This generates a clear prediction: if employers use reputation to set wages, then the introduction of a new measure of individual skill will decrease the return to reputation. Administrative data and a natural experiment from the country of Colombia confirm this. Finally, we show that college reputation is positively correlated with graduates' earnings growth, suggesting that reputation matters beyond signaling individual skill." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/1