Widening participation in Higher Education: analysis using linked administrative data

Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Goodman, Alissa; Vignoles, Anna

doi:10.1920/re.ifs.2005.0069

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“…International empirical evidence supports the observation that decreasing costs of university education increases the attendance and completion of schooling in low socioeconomic groups (see, e.g., Dynarski, 2002;Deming and Dynarski, 2009;Dynarski and Scott-Clayton, 2013). However, recent empirical studies indicate that poor performance in secondary school might explain lower HE participation rates better than barriers at the point of entry (e.g., Chowdry et al, 2013;Denny, 2014). Publicly funded HE might also be considered a potential mechanism to equalise the income distribution, but this could lead to significant inefficiencies (see, e.g., Hanushek, Leung and Yilmaz, 2003).…”

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R&D subsidies and productivity in SMEs

Karhunen

Huovari

2015

Small Bus Econ

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This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter and four separate empirical studies which study higher education and productivity in Finland. Introductory chapter presents shortly the motivation, background and main results of this thesis. First three articles focus on the relationship between working while studying, dropout behavior and later labor market outcomes at individual level. Fourth article examines how subsidies affect labor productivity at the firm level.The first article of this thesis studies how working while studying relates to earnings after graduation from university or polytechnic. Analysis focuses on working while studying and earnings over two year period after graduation. The results show that early work experience is related to higher earnings right after graduation year, but instrumental variable estimations find no significant causal effect for university students.The second article explores on the relationship between working while studying and migration. Migration propensities are studied up to three years after graduation. Results show that working while studying can partly explain why the mobility of highly educated people has declined. We find that that there are differences by study region and earlier migration behavior.The third article examines the relationship between the decision to drop out from university and labor market outcomes. Results indicate that compared to similar university graduates, the dropouts' annual earnings are on average 11,000 euros lower four years after the dropout decision. Dropouts have also a higher probability of being self-employed than similar graduates.The fourth article examines the effect of R&D subsidies on labour productivity. Study uses firm-level data on Finnish SMEs from 2000 to 2012 and apply a combined matching and difference-in-differences method to control for selection bias. Study does not find significant positive effect on labour productivity over the five-year period after a subsidy is granted.

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Section: Financing Higher Education 23mentioning

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R&D subsidies and productivity in SMEs

Karhunen

Huovari

2015

Small Bus Econ

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“…This study suggests that education does not always completely fulfil the role of equipping individuals with the aptitude, aspiration and flexibility (or personal development) necessary to continue in education or keep up with the demands of the world of work. This is especially likely if an individual's background is not 'aligned' to taking advantage of opportunities presented (Chowdry, Crawford, Deardon, Goodman and Vignoles 2010).…”

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Restrictions into opportunities: how boundaries in the life course can shape educational pathways

Shafi¹,

Rose

2014

Research in Post-Compulsory Education

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“…Graduates' skills are not just accumulated at university or colleges, but the product of a history of skill formation since early childhood (Heckman, 2007). Available family resources, the parental demand for children education, the curriculum during primary and secondary school, and exposure to heterogeneous teacher quality during compulsory schooling are some factors among many that determine the skill level with which school leavers enter higher education (Björklund and Jäntti, 2012;Björklund and Salvanes, 2011;Chowdry et al, 2013). Some graduate skills may also develop outside the formal learning experience of higher education.…”

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Cross-National Deployment of “Graduate Jobs”: Analysis Using a New Indicator Based on High Skills Use

Henseke¹,

Green²

2017

Research in Labor Economics

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Utilising work task data drawn from the OECD's Survey of Adult Skills of 2011Skills of /2012Skills of and 2014Skills of /2015 we derive a new skills-based indicator of graduate jobs, termed ISCO(HE)2008, for thirty-one countries.The indicator generates a plausible distribution of graduate occupations and explains graduates' wages and job satisfaction better than hitherto existing indicators. Unlike with the traditional classifier, several jobs in major group 3 "Technicians and Associate Professionals" require higher education in many countries. Altogether, almost a third of labour is deployed in graduate jobs in the 31 countries, but with large cross-national differences. Industry and establishment-size composition can account for some of the variation. In addition, two indicators of the relative quality of the higher education system also contribute to the variation in the prevalence of graduate jobs across countries.

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Widening participation in Higher Education: analysis using linked administrative data

Cited by 159 publications

References 40 publications

R&D subsidies and productivity in SMEs

R&D subsidies and productivity in SMEs

Restrictions into opportunities: how boundaries in the life course can shape educational pathways

Cross-National Deployment of “Graduate Jobs”: Analysis Using a New Indicator Based on High Skills Use

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