Wage expectations for higher education students in Spain

Alonso-Borrego, César; Romero-Medina, Antonio

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Wage expectations for higher education students in Spain

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Economía	es
dc.contributor.author	Alonso-Borrego, César
dc.contributor.author	Romero-Medina, Antonio
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-22T18:33:00Z
dc.date.available	2012-10-22T18:33:00Z
dc.date.issued	2011-05
dc.description.abstract	We assess the ability of students to forecast future earnings, by using data on expected wages self-reported by college students with different graduation horizons. We find a signifficant gender effect, by which wages expectations are systematically lower for women than for men, this effect being different with different degree type in the case of junior students. However, the gender gap in actual wages exceeds the gender gap in wage expectations, suggesting that women do not fully account for the gender gap in their future earnings. Also, junior students with low college performance unrealistically predict higher expected wages. The comparison between students' wage expectations and actual wages for college graduates indicates that college students tend to over predict future wages, and overprediction is higher for women and for fresher students
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/15734
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.hasversion	http://hdl.handle.net/10016/25138
dc.relation.isversionof	http://hdl.handle.net/10016/9076
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Estadística
dc.subject.jel	I23
dc.subject.jel	J24
dc.subject.jel	J31
dc.subject.jel	C24
dc.subject.jel	C25
dc.subject.other	Wage differentials
dc.subject.other	College choice
dc.subject.other	Ordered response
dc.title	Wage expectations for higher education students in Spain
dc.type	working paper	*
dspace.entity.type	Publication