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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK

Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008

This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...

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Overqualification, job dissatisfaction, and increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education

Green, Francis (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008

Increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education is found, using quantile regression. This trend is related to rising overqualification. We distinguish between and validate measures of Real and Formal overqualification, according to whether it is or is not accompanied by...

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Child support and educational outcomes : evidence from the British household panel survey

Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008

thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … least 10 times as large as that associated with variations in other sources of total household net income for two key …

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