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Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu – Economics of Education Review, 2011
This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the U.K. by subject studied. We use data from the recent U.K. Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first degree, and postgraduate qualifications. Ordinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Females, Least Squares Statistics
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Green, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard; Zhu, Yu – Journal of Education and Work, 2008
We analyse the role of private schools in the teachers' labour market. Private schools employ an increasingly-disproportionate share of teachers in Britain, relative to the number of their pupils. Their teachers are more likely than state school teachers to possess post-graduate qualifications, and to be specialists in shortage subjects.…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Private Schools, Females, Job Satisfaction