Научный семинар ИНИИ "The impact of student academic achievement on graduate salaries: the case of a leading Russian university"

Докладчик: Виктор Рудаков (Лаборатория исследований рынка труда НИУ ВШЭ)

This paper analyses the impact of academic achievement on the future salaries of Russian university graduates by looking into the GPA-earnings relationship for graduates of a leading Russian university. The study is based on a pooled cross-sectional CIM HSE graduate survey data (2014-2015). The issue of how student academic achievement, measured by GPA impact future labor market rewards is analyzed through the set of academic, demographic and labor market factors. Our results indicate that there exists significant positive impact of GPA on salaries of Bachelor programs’ graduates (9-12% wage premium for additional GPA point). At the same time the impact of GPA on earnings of Master programs’ graduates is negative (7-8% wage penalty for additional GPA point) or insignificant if we control for the sector of employment.

Among the main factors that positively affect earnings of HSE graduates is work experience. Graduates who combined study and work achieve a 30% wage premium. Intensity of employment is positively correlated with earnings. However, we found no evidence that combining study and work affects student academic achievement, even for those who combined studies with full-time job. Moreover, on average, students who have not worked during their studies have lower GPA.

We found that the negative effect of GPA on graduates of Master programs can be partially explained by degree differences in sector of employment, especially for Education and Science sector and Entrepreneurship. Master students are much more likely to be employed in Education and Science than others and there exist considerable wage penalty for employment in this sector. We also found that in spite of higher academic achievement of female students there exists considerable gender wage gap: male graduates earnings are 18-30% higher than earnings of female graduates. These differences can be partially explained by differences in position, accumulated work experience and sector of employment. Job matching with the field of study in university is insignificant while tenure for the current employer provides considerable wage premium.

Авторы: Виктор Рудаков (Лаборатория исследований рынка труда НИУ ВШЭ), Игорь Чириков (Центр социологии образования НИУ ВШЭ), Сергей Рощин (Международный институт экономики и финансов НИУ ВШЭ; Лаборатория исследований рынка труда НИУ ВШЭ; Департамент прикладной экономики НИУ ВШЭ).

Адрес: Славянская пл., д. 4, стр. 2, комната 101-102
Дата и время: 01 июня 2017 года, 16:00
Рабочий язык: английский

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