Rates of return to degrees across British regions
By: by Nigel C. O'Leary, Peter J. Sloane.
Contributors: Sloane, Peter J.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 1947; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 1947
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Rate of return -- Great Britain -- Case studies; Degrees, Academic -- Great Britain -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the Labour Force Survey. We find substantial variations in the financial rewards available to graduates across regions with much higher returns in London and the South East than elsewhere, although adjusting for regional differences in the cost-of-living narrows such differences considerably. Decompositional analysis, after controlling for regional differences in both occupational and industrial structures, suggests that coefficient effects dominate composition effects, consistent with agglomeration effects being important. These results have implications for the recent changes to student funding in England, Scotland and Wales"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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