Estimating the effect of urban/rural background and higher education on first job wage of university graduates.
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Wang, Wei-Lin
Abstract
This paper uses the Taiwan Integrated Postsecondary Education Database to examine the relationships among the wage of the first job, higher education and the difference in effect between growing up in the rural environment and the urban environment. The study also explores the influence of moving experience when high school students enter in the university on the wage of the first job. Two waves of data were merged; the first wave occurred in 2003 questioning freshmen students and the second wave occurred in 2006 questioning graduate students a year after they graduated. After controlling the factors of different family socioeconomic status at the individual level, the hierarchical linear model is used to identify the impact of having a higher education and the difference in background between growing up in the rural environment and the urban environment.
The major findings are as follows:
A. Higher education has significant effects on first job wage, and it is more influential than the family socioeconomic status.
B. The urbanization of growth region results in the difference of attaining higher education. Therefore, students from less-urbanization regions tend to enter in public schools, vocational schools and technological department.
C. The urbanization of growth region has a positive impact on the first job wage, and it also has positive interaction with higher education school type. This means that the wage of urban students are higher than the wage of rural students. Additionally, students who graduate from public schools earn more money than those from private schools. The gap of wage gets larger due to urbanization.
D. The moving experience from rural to urban when high students enter in the university is positive for non-urban students’ first job wage. This means that moving experience is more positive for students from less-urbanization regions.
Subjects
first job wage
higher education
growth regional effect
the moving experience from rural to urban
multilevel hierarchical linear model
SDGs
Type
thesis
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