IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijeded/v13y2022i2p154-170.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

University selectivity: does it correlate with graduates' wages? Evidence from Chile

Author

Listed:
  • Oscar Espinoza
  • Luis Sandoval
  • Luis Eduardo González
  • Noel McGinn

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between university selectivity and graduates' wages. Holding other factors constant, do employers award higher salaries to graduates of universities that impose higher admission requirements? The study looks at wage returns to Chilean graduates in two different disciplines in three universities. The participants were 587 graduates. The results reveal a positive relationship between these factors at high and low selectivity, but not in the middle range. There is no concrete evidence that training in the higher selectivity university is of higher quality. The results advance our understanding of how higher education can contribute to income inequality, but are generalisable only to the two disciplines studied.

Suggested Citation

  • Oscar Espinoza & Luis Sandoval & Luis Eduardo González & Noel McGinn, 2022. "University selectivity: does it correlate with graduates' wages? Evidence from Chile," International Journal of Education Economics and Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 13(2), pages 154-170.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijeded:v:13:y:2022:i:2:p:154-170
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=121822
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijeded:v:13:y:2022:i:2:p:154-170. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=346 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.