Gender disparities in horizontal mismatch penalties
An examination of professional' degrees in the UK (2007-2015)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4749503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Lalley (0000-0002-7657-986X, Nottingham Trent University, corresponding author), Jennifer Houston (0000-0002-4532-0820, University of Strathclyde), Ann Gasteen (0000-0002-2825-9482, University of Stirling) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 2265-2280 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2018.1485145 |
| OpenAlex | W2809490872 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
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
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Labour economics · Wage · Diversity and Career in Medicine · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |