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College Hierarchy and the Labor Market in Korea: Changes in the Wage Premium of College Hierarchy over Several Decades

  • Analyses & Alternatives
  • Abbr : A&A
  • 2022, 6(1), pp.35~69
  • DOI : 10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.002
  • Publisher : Korea Consensus Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : February 2, 2022
  • Accepted : March 6, 2022
  • Published : March 31, 2022

Kim, Jin-Yeong 1

1건국대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper we define wage premium of college hierarchy as a wage differential among college graduates from different universities within the same graduate cohort and estimate the wage premium of college hierarchy for the three different cohorts: namely, 1982, 1992, and 2002. We utilize a unique data set called Education-Labor Market Lifetime Path Survey, which contains education and labor market information about the three different college graduate cohorts. We find that the wage premium of college hierarchy changes over time for the same cohort. It tends to large right after graduation but decrease with labor market experience. When the test score at the time of college entrance controlled, the wage premium of college hierarchy mostly disappears for the 1992 cohort. But for the 2002 cohort it remains seven years after graduation. The difference in the wage premium of college hierarchy can be explained, at least partly, by the number of colleges, college enrollment ratio, and the relation between college hierarchy and the entrance test score.

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