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creators_name: Shure, Nikki
creators_name: Henderson, Morag
creators_name: Adamecz-Volgyi, Anna
title: The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates
ispublished: inpress
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
keywords: Socioeconomic gaps · Intergenerational educational mobility · Higher
education · Labor market returns · Gender economics · First-generation · First in family
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abstract: We examine how first-in-family (FiF) graduates — those whose parents do not
have university degrees — fare in the labor market in England. We find that among
women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduates whose parents have
a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty. A decomposition
of the wage difference between FiF and non-FiF graduates reveals two interesting
findings. First, two-thirds of the female FiF penalty is explained by certain characteristics,
including having lower educational attainment, not attending an elite
university, selecting particular degree courses, working in smaller firms, working
in jobs that do not require their degree, and motherhood. Second, FiF graduate men
also differ in their endowments from non-FiF graduate men; however, FiF men earn
higher returns on their endowments than non-FiF men and thus compensate for their
relative social disadvantage, while FiF women do not. We also estimate the returns
to graduation for potential FiF and non-FiF young people. We find that the wage
returns to graduation are not lower among FiF graduates compared to those who
match their parents with a degree.
date: 2022-11-01
date_type: published
publisher: Springer Verlag
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00908-y
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1958412
doi: 10.1007/s00148-022-00908-y
lyricists_name: Shure, Dominique
lyricists_id: SHURE67
actors_name: Shure, Dominique
actors_id: SHURE67
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: EDO/43570 [Nuffield Foundation]
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Population Economics
citation:        Shure, Nikki;    Henderson, Morag;    Adamecz-Volgyi, Anna;      (2022)    The labor market returns to “first-in-family” university graduates.                   Journal of Population Economics        10.1007/s00148-022-00908-y <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-022-00908-y>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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