Employability and Earnings Returns to Qualifications in Scotland

Gasteen, Anne; Houston, John

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“…The aggregate graduate wage premium for the period 1996-2005 is mostly constant-it increased slightly for men from 28% to 35% and decreased slightly for women from 45% to 41%. Similar results are found by Gasteen and Houston (2007), who pool four years of data from the Labour Force Survey (1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003) to examine the return to qualifications in Scotland.…”

Section: Graduate Wage Premium and Productivity Differentialssupporting

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The Regional Economic Impact of More Graduates in the Labour Market: A ‘Micro-to-Macro’ Analysis for Scotland

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This paper explores the system-wide impact of graduates on the regional economy. Graduates enjoy a significant wage premium, often interpreted as reflecting their greater productivity relative to non-graduates. If this is so there is a clear and direct supply-side impact of HEI activities on regional economies. We use an HEI-disaggregated computable general equilibrium model of Scotland to estimate the impact of the growing proportion of graduates in the Scottish labour force that is implied by the current participation rate and demographic change, taking the graduate wage premium in Scotland as an indicator of productivity enhancement. While the detailed results vary with alternative assumptions about the extent to which wage premia reflect productivity, they do suggest that the long-term supply-side impacts of HEIs provide a significant boost to regional GDP. Furthermore, the results suggest that the supply-side impacts of HEIs are likely to be more important than the expenditure impacts that are the focus of most HEI impact studies.

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Section: Graduate Wage Premium and Productivity Differentialssupporting

confidence: 70%

The Regional Economic Impact of More Graduates in the Labour Market: A ‘Micro-to-Macro’ Analysis for Scotland

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“…Detailed descriptions of the variables and summary statistics of all dependent and independent variables are presented in Table 1. The existing literature suggests that age should have a nonlinear relationship with employment outcomes (Gasteen and Houston, 2007;Florit and Lladosa, 2007). To test this hypothesis in the Australian context, this research has included age (Age) and agesquared (Age 2 /100) as independent variables in equation 1.…”

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Earnings Outcomes in Metropolitan and Regional Labour Markets– A Gender-Based Analysis for New South Wales and Victoria

Hicks¹,

Mallik

Basu³

2018

Proceedings of the 38th International Academic Conference, Prague

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It is generally accepted that the key characteristics of labour markets in Australian capital cities differ from those of the labour markets in the rest of Australia although labour market policy is typically conducted at the national level without taking regional differences into account. Gender issues have frequently been highlighted in the many analyses of urban Australian labour markets. Other studies have focused on the urban-regional dichotomy of the labour market. However, although studies of labour market features and outcomes in Australia have focused on issues related to location or gender, they rarely address both. This paper seeks to establish if discrimination by gender differs between regional and urban communities in the Australian context. The conceptual framework used in this research is in the tradition of human capital analysis. We first analyse, separately, determinants of hourly wage rates and weekly incomes by gender in Australian metropolitan cities and regional areas. We then utilise the Blinder-Oaxaca procedure, to decompose the mean outcome differences between men and women within a region into that part that is 'explained' by gender differences in endowments and that part which remains unexplained by such differences and which therefore provides a measure of discrimination. The data is drawn from individual level confidentialised unit record files (CURF) data of the 2006 Australian Census. Gender-based analysis is conducted for each region, Sydney, regional NSW, Melbourne and regional Victoria, with a view to discerning if the impact of the determinants vary spacially. The research confirmed that gender plays an important role in influencing labour market outcomes. The research also identified a number of factors that impact on both hourly wages and weekly earnings and assessed how these factors impacted differently for men and women across metropolitan and regional areas. The results indicate that, in general, differences exist between men and women in hourly wage rate and weekly income earned. The determinants of these differences varied between metropolitan cities and regional areas. With respect to issues of gender discrimination in employment, the use of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique confirmed the presence of discrimination against women in all regions. Wage discrimination is more pronounced in metropolitan areas whilst discrimination in weekly earnings is more important in non-metropolitan areas. The latter discrimination is likely to reflect both fewer job opportunities for women and a lower ownership of income earning assets by women.

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“…A considerable volume of literature at UK level has sought to estimate the returns associated with different qualifications (Blundell et al, 1997;Dearden et al, 2002;Robinson, 1997) Gasteen and Houston (2007) who develop a model to examine the differing routes, which individuals take in acquiring further education and the impact specific routes have on their wage premia. Conventional thought may be that most individuals acquire the requisite level of education at secondary school before continuing their education at university in the hope of attaining their undergraduate degree.…”

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Higher education widening access initiatives—An estimation of wage returns from Scottish Articulation

Lalley

Adetutu

2021

Higher Education Quarterly

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We estimate the wage returns of undergraduates who attained their degree via Scotland's Further Education College Articulation policy. We contribute to existing literature by adding to the research on varying returns based on paths to acquiring a degree, while also being the first paper to examine the returns associated with Scottish Articulation. While Articulation students receive a wage premium relative to college students, we find lower returns for Articulation students relative to those from older and higher ranking university institutions in Scotland. This result questions whether improving educational equality, translates to improved income equality between low versus higher income backgrounds.

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Employability and Earnings Returns to Qualifications in Scotland

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

The Regional Economic Impact of More Graduates in the Labour Market: A ‘Micro-to-Macro’ Analysis for Scotland

The Regional Economic Impact of More Graduates in the Labour Market: A ‘Micro-to-Macro’ Analysis for Scotland

Earnings Outcomes in Metropolitan and Regional Labour Markets– A Gender-Based Analysis for New South Wales and Victoria

Higher education widening access initiatives—An estimation of wage returns from Scottish Articulation

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