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ERIC Number: EJ944405
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Dec
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0272-7757
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Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud
Economics of Education Review, v30 n6 p1187-1201 Dec 2011
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most favourable unobserved characteristics obtaining wages almost twice as large as those with the worst. Moreover, gender differences in wages within subjects are also large. We then simulate a graduate tax to calculate a willingness to pay--in form of tuition fees--to capture these subject wage premia. (Contains 7 tables and 3 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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