Variations in the wage returns to a first degree. Evidence from the British cohort study 1970.

Autor/inn/en	Bratti, Massimiliano; Naylor, Robin; Smith, Jeremy
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Variations in the wage returns to a first degree. Evidence from the British cohort study 1970. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Unterschiedliche Bildungserträge eines Bachelor-Abschlusses. Erfahrungen aus der britischen Kohorten-Studie 1970.
Quelle	Bonn (2005), 54 S., 304 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Bonn). 1631
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Determinante; Einkommenshöhe; Studienfach; Bachelor-Studiengang; Hochschule; Arbeitspapier; Entwicklung; Geschlechtsspezifik
Abstract	"As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher education paid by students themselves. A rationale for the latter element comes from evidence of a high private return to university undergraduate degrees. However, much of this evidence pre-dates the rapid expansion in the graduate population. In the current paper, we use evidence from a cohort of young people born in Britain in 1970 to update influential evidence on returns to a first degree based on a previous 1958 birth cohort. We also analyse variations in returns by degree subject and by class of degree. Our analysis incorporates proxying and matching, control function and propensity score matching methods. Among other results, we find (i) that the returns to a first degree for men changed very little across the two cohorts while the return for women declined substantially and (ii) evidence of differences in returns to a first degree according to subject area of study and class of degree awarded." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch; Längsschnitt; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1970 bis 2000. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2006/2