RT Journal Article
T1 Wage expectations for higher education students in Spain
A1 Alonso-Borrego, César
A1 Romero-Medina, Antonio
AB We assess students' ability to forecast future earnings by using data on expected wages self-reported by college students with different graduation horizons. We find a significant gender gap, by which wage expectations are systematically lower for women than for men. However, women do notfully account for the gender gap in their future earnings. We also find that student performance, degreetype, and graduation horizon play a relevant role in wage forecasts. In any case, students' expectationsdo not conform market wages but become more realistic as they approach graduation. We are in debt with Juanjo Dolado and Ricardo Mora for valuable comments. We acknowledgeresearch funding from the Spanish Ministry of Finance and Competitiveness, Grant Nos. ECO2012-31358 (first author) and ECO2014-57442-P (second author)
PB Wiley
SN 1121-7081
YR 2016
FD 2016-03-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25138
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25138
LA eng
NO We acknowledge research funding from the Spanish Ministry of Finance and Competitiveness, Grant Nos. ECO2012-31358 (first author) and ECO2014-57442-P (second author).
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