Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52037 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5652
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most favourable unobserved characteristics obtaining wages almost twice as large as those with the worst. Moreover, gender differences in wages within subjects are also large. We then simulate a graduate tax to calculate a willingness to pay - in form of tuition fees - to capture these subject wage premia.
Subjects: 
graduate earnings
tuition fees
JEL: 
I22
J31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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