Wage expectations for higher education students in Spain

César Alonso-Borrego and Antonio Romero-Medina
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Antonio Romero Medina

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: We use data on expected wages self-reported by college students to assess the hypothesis that the positive gap between expected and actual wages would decrease as students approach graduation. Our estimation results confirm this hypothesis. The amount and the quality of student information, used to forecast wages, improves with student experience. We find that expected wages for first-year students are affected not only by the degree type and academic performance, but also by the variables determining their degree preferences and their household environment. In the case of junior students, the degree type and length affects expected wages, though neither pre-university performance nor household environment influence their wage forecasts

Keywords: Wage; differentials; College; choice; Ordered; response (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C24 C25 I23 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07-13
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Journal Article: Wage Expectations for Higher Education Students in Spain (2016)
Working Paper: Students’ Assessment of Higher Education in Spain (2008)
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