Is Improving Access to University Enough? Socio‐Economic Gaps in the Earnings of English Graduates
Is Improving Access to University Enough? Socio‐Economic Gaps in the Earnings of English Graduates
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改善英语毕业生收入的社会经济差距就足够了吗?
DOI:
10.1111/obes.12261
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发表时间:
2019
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通讯作者:
A. Vignoles
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作者:
J. Britton;L. Dearden;N. Shephard;A. Vignoles
Much research and policy attention has been on socio-economic gaps in participation at
university, but less attention has been paid to socio-economic gaps in graduates’ earnings. This
paper addresses this shortfall using tax and student loan administrative data to investigate
the variation in earnings of English graduates by socio-economic background. We find that
graduates from higher income families (with median income of around £77,000) have average
earnings which are 20% higher than those from lower income families (with median income of
around £26,000). Once we condition on institution and subject choices, this premium roughly
halves, to around 10%. The premium grows with age and is larger for men, in particular for
men at the most selective universities. We estimate the extent to which different institutions
and subjects appear to deliver good earnings for relatively less well off students, highlighting the
strong performance of medicine, economics, law, business, engineering, technology and computer
science, as well as the prominent London based universities.