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Publication Date: 2010-Dec
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Return to College Education Revisited: Is Relevance Relevant?
Yakusheva, Olga
Economics of Education Review, v29 n6 p1125-1142 Dec 2010
This study examines whether the size of the college earnings premium varies depending on the quality of the match between an individual's degree field and his/her occupation. The study uses the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) to obtain a new measure of the quality of occupational match for a sample of 2268 young adults with post-secondary degrees from the restricted use High School and Beyond (1980/92) data. The study finds that people whose occupations better match their degree fields earn significantly higher returns to post-secondary schooling. This result is robust to controlling for an extensive set of pre-existing differences among individuals, and to accounting for differences in earnings across post-secondary degree fields. (Contains 7 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Young Adults, Education Work Relationship, Majors (Students), Economics, Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Cost Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Income, Compensation (Remuneration), Occupations, Career Choice, College Graduates
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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