Walker, Ian and Zhu, Yu (2008) The College Wage Premium and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 110 (4). pp. 695-709. ISSN 0347-0520.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional information: | The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | Human capital; higher education; college premium; I20; J30 |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Economics |
| Depositing User: | Yu Zhu |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2009 14:13 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2011 01:47 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/15470 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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