Browsing Institutes and Centres by Subject "Wages--Effect of education on--Great Britain"

DSpace/Manakin Repository

Now showing items 1-2 of 2

The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK

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 ...
The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK

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 ...