TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kleibrink, Jan
AU  - Michaelsen, Maren M.
        TI  - Reaching High: Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK
        PY  - 2014/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8255
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8255
        AB  - The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 changed the Higher Education system in the UK by giving all polytechnics university status. Using the British Household Panel Survey and accounting for different sources of selection bias, we show that wage differentials between university and polytechnic graduates can be explained by a glass ceiling preventing polytechnic graduates from reaching professional occupations. After the reform, the glass ceiling disappeared and average wages of post-reform polytechnic graduates are not statistically different from average wages of post-reform graduates of traditional universities any more. This implies that the abolition of the 'two-tier' education system has reduced inequality among Higher Education graduates – a result that may be desirable in other systems of a 'two-tier' nature.
        KW  - higher education
KW  - education reform
KW  - wage differentials
KW  - occupational sorting
KW  - United Kingdom
        ER  -