Gender disparities in horizontal mismatch penalties: an examination of 'professional' degrees in the UK (2007–2015)

Lalley, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7657-986X, Houston, J and Gasteen, A, 2018. Gender disparities in horizontal mismatch penalties: an examination of 'professional' degrees in the UK (2007–2015). Studies in Higher Education. ISSN 0307-5079

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Abstract

We quantify the returns to higher education for degree disciplines, namely 'professional' degrees, Medicine/Dentistry, Law, Accountancy and Psychology, within the UK from 2007 to 2015. We estimate the returns to education in the form of employment and wage premia associated with each subject. Our analysis contributes to the existing literature on the topic of horizontal mismatch by estimating the wage premia in different occupational settings and identifying the penalty associated with horizontal mismatch in each field, and relative to all other graduates. We identify how wage premia vary between employment outcomes when individuals with professional degrees are employed inside, as opposed to outside, their professional sector. A distinct difference in mismatch penalties between male and female graduates was found. Male mismatch penalties are isolated to law graduates, while female mismatch penalties appear, and persist within all fields across the duration of a female graduate’s career.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Studies in Higher Education
Creators:	Lalley, C., Houston, J. and Gasteen, A.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Date:	18 June 2018
ISSN:	0307-5079
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/03075079.2018.1485145 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	19 Jun 2018 10:15
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2019 03:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33869

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