Labour Market Performance of Indigenous University Graduates in Australia: An ORU Perspective

Ian Li

Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), 2014, vol. 17, issue 2, 87-110

Abstract: Indigenous Australians experience disadvantage in many aspects of life, including the areas of health, socioeconomic and labour market status. This study uses data from the Graduate Destination Surveys 1999 to 2011 to assess the performance of Indigenous Australian graduates relative to non-Indigenous Australian graduates, using the Overeducation, Required, and Undereducation framework. Indigenous Australians are found to be less likely to be overeducated, and have comparable earnings with their non-Indigenous counterparts. On the whole, Indigenous graduates perform positively in the labour market and initiatives targeted at Indigenous participation and completion of higher education should be supported.

Keywords: Indigenous; disadvantage; wage gap; higher education; graduate salaries; overeducation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I28 J15 J31 J70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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