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University Quality and Labour Market Outcomes

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McGuinness Seamus

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This paper uses proxies for university quality derived from the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and the Teaching Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) to assess the impact of university quality on the labour market outcomes of a cohort of UK graduates. The impacts on job quality and earnings were mainly limited to graduates in particular disciplines or those obtaining “poor” degrees from “good” universities. The results suggest that, after controlling for pre-entry qualifications, labour market outcomes for most graduates depended more on the subject studied and the degree classification awarded than on the university attended.

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Paper provided by Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland in its series Working Papers NIERC. with number 78.

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Keywords: LABOUR MARKET ; EDUCATION;

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J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
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  1. Elish Kelly & Philip O'Connell & Emer Smyth, 2008. "The Economic Returns to Field of Study and Competencies Among Higher Education Graduates in Ireland," Papers WP242, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). [Downloadable!]
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