The labor market returns to "first-in-family" university graduates
The labor market returns to "first-in-family" university graduates
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劳动力市场回归“家庭第一”大学毕业生
DOI：
10.1007/s00148-022-00908-y
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Adamecz-Völgyi A
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作者：
Adamecz-Völgyi A
我们研究如何第一次在家庭（FiF）毕业生-那些父母没有大学学位-票价在英格兰的劳动力市场。我们发现，在女性中，FiF毕业生的平均收入比父母拥有大学学位的毕业生低7.4%。对于男性，我们没有发现FiF工资惩罚。FiF和非FiF毕业生之间的工资差异的分解揭示了两个有趣的发现。首先，三分之二的女性FiF处罚是由某些特征解释的，包括教育程度较低，没有上过精英大学，选择特定的学位课程，在较小的公司工作，从事不需要学位的工作，以及母亲身份。第二，FiF毕业的男性在捐赠方面也与非FiF毕业的男性不同;然而，FiF男性的捐赠回报率高于非FiF男性，从而弥补了他们相对的社会劣势，而FiF女性则没有。我们还估计了潜在FiF和非FiF年轻人的毕业回报。我们发现，FiF毕业生的毕业工资回报并不低于那些与父母获得学位相匹配的毕业生。
We examine how first-in-family (FiF) graduates — those whose parents do not have university degrees — fare in the labor market in England. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduates whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty. A decomposition of the wage difference between FiF and non-FiF graduates reveals two interesting findings. First, two-thirds of the female FiF penalty is explained by certain characteristics, including having lower educational attainment, not attending an elite university, selecting particular degree courses, working in smaller firms, working in jobs that do not require their degree, and motherhood. Second, FiF graduate men also differ in their endowments from non-FiF graduate men; however, FiF men earn higher returns on their endowments than non-FiF men and thus compensate for their relative social disadvantage, while FiF women do not. We also estimate the returns to graduation for potential FiF and non-FiF young people. We find that the wage returns to graduation are not lower among FiF graduates compared to those who match their parents with a degree.