This paper studies the association between graduation age and earnings among university graduates in Denmark, which is a country with one of the oldest student populations in the world. Exploiting a rich data-set from administrative registers, the current study is able to track labour market career for a longer period of time and to control for more labour market-relevant variables than any previous study of graduation age and earnings. The results show that graduation age has either a slightly positive or an insignificant impact on starting wages within the public sector or a negative impact on starting wages among private sector employees. This applies to both genders, but the differences are stronger among male employees. The analyses of long-term wages reveal a more homogeneous pattern. Mature graduates earn less in all the years investigated. The wage differences are greatest among male graduates employed in private enterprises, and the gap increases throughout their careers.
Lang vej at gå -social baggrund og studerendes alder på danske universiteter Den høje danske dimittendalder har vaeret et tilbagevendende indslag på den politiske dagsorden i de sidste 10 år. Forskningsmaessigt ved vi dog ikke så meget om årsagerne, og isaer sammenhaengen mellem social baggrund og de studerendes alder er underbelyst i en dansk kontekst. I internationale undersøgelser peger resultaterne på, at der er en mindre socialt skaev rekruttering blandt aeldre end yngre studerende. Denne artikel undersøger, om dette også er gaeldende for danske forhold. Ved at skelne mellem dimittendalder og sabbat byder artiklen på ny viden om, hvor i uddannelsesforløbet betydningen af social baggrund er størst. Desuden analyseres studerendes egne begrundelser for at holde pauser mellem uddannelser, hvilket normalt ikke indgår i de internationale undersøgelser på feltet. Resultaterne viser, at der er en sammenhaeng mellem social baggrund og dimittendalder. Unge med højtuddannede, højtlønnede gifte/samlevende foraeldre bosat i storbyer har markant lavere dimittendalder end unge med lavtuddannede, lavtlønnede enlige foraeldre bosat på landet. I forhold til sabbat efter gymnasietiden lader der derimod til at vaere en homogenitet blandt de unge, da varigheden af pauser ikke varierer naevnevaerdig med social baggrund. Der er heller ingen signifikante forskelle mellem studerende med forskellig social oprindelse i begrundelserne for sabbat.Søgeord: dimittendalder, sabbat, videregående uddannelse, sociale forskelle, social klasse.
I denne artikel undersøges sammenhængen mellem social oprindelse og indkomst blandt kandidater fra fire attraktive universitetsuddannelser: Jura, erhvervsøkonomi, ingeniørvidenskab og medicin. Resultaterne viser, at sammenhængen mellem social oprindelse og indkomst er stærkest blandt jurister. Mandlige jurister med oprindelse i de øvre økonomiske eller kulturelle klasser tjener 12-17 procent mere om året end mandlige jurister fra arbejderfamilier. Blandt økonomer og ingeniører er forskellen for mænd omtrent det halve, og blandt mandlige læger og kvindelige kandidater fra alle de fire uddannelser er der ingen nævneværdig effekt af social oprindelse. Indkomstforskellene har været forholdsvis stabile i løbet af 1990’erne – dog med en tendens til, at mandlige jurister med oprindelse i akademikerfamilier gør det bedre med tiden. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Trond Beldo Klausen: The Impact of Social Class Origin on Income among University Graduates This article compares the impact of social class origin in Denmark on income among university graduates in law, business economics, engineering (all masters level) and medicine. While there is no impact of social class origin among male medical graduates, and some among male engineering and business graduates, there is substantial difference among male law graduates. Male law graduates from the upper social and cultural classes earned between 12 and 17% more annually than male graduates of working class origin. The impact of social origin on income among female graduates is generally weaker than among male graduates. There has been a slight change in the direction of greater economic rewards from having an upper cultural class origin, especially among male law students, between the cohorts born in the late 1950s and the late 1960s. Key words: Social class origin, income, elite education.
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