Does Higher Education Level the Playing Field? Socio-Economic Differences in Graduate Earnings

Autor/inn/en	Crawford, Claire; van der Erve, Laura
Titel	Does Higher Education Level the Playing Field? Socio-Economic Differences in Graduate Earnings
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 5 (2015) 4, S.380-412 (33 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Social Mobility; Family Environment; College Graduates; Socioeconomic Influences; College Attendance; Foreign Countries; Wages; Salaries; Social Class; Quasiexperimental Design; Regression (Statistics); Least Squares Statistics; National Surveys; Family Income; Educational Attainment; Parent Background; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Rating Scales; Standardized Tests; Correlation; United Kingdom; Conners Rating Scales; British Ability Scales + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Mobilität; Familienmilieu; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Ausland; Wage; Löhne; Entlohnung; Gehalt; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Familieneinkommen; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Elternhaus; Rating-Skala; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Korrelation; Großbritannien
Abstract	Education--and in particular higher education--is often regarded as a route to social mobility. For this to be the case, however, the link between family background and adult outcomes must be broken (or at least reduced) once we take account of an individual's education history. This paper provides new evidence on differences in graduates' earnings by socio-economic background, exploiting rich individual-level data to account for more of the ways in which graduates from different socio-economic backgrounds differ from each other than has been possible in previous research on this topic. We continue to find significant differences between the earnings of graduates from lower and higher socio-economic backgrounds, even after accounting for a rich array of characteristics, skills and experiences from before individuals went to university, as well as their labour market experiences subsequently. These results suggest that it is not enough simply to encourage more young people to go to university, or even to ensure that they graduate with "good" degrees; policymakers interested in increasing social mobility also need to focus on what happens to them once they leave university to ensure that higher education is truly able to "level the playing field" between those from different socio-economic backgrounds. (As Provided).
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