Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-07-08)
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 ...
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 to 2003
on the financial private returns to a degree – the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled ...
Fan, Wen(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-09)
College graduates tend to earn more than non-graduates but it is difficult to ascertain how much of this empirical association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much ...