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Labour market returns to higher education: An empirical analysis of marginal students Evidence from BI Norwegian Business School

Kaspersen, Synne; Herne, Kari Bø
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2021
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  • Master of Science [1116]
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This thesis targets the returns to higher education in Norway, respectively if a

selection of students experienced positive labour market gains from graduating.

The selection refers to bachelor students in business-administrative fields at

BI Norwegian business school, where comparing students from different parts

of the skill-distribution is our main area of study in an attempt to determine

who benefits the most from taking an academic degree. Correspondingly, we

compare marginal students to non-marginal students; using below or above the

threshold of 3.5 in average high school grade points.

To conduct the analysis, we merged internal BI student-registers with data from

Statistics Norway, providing insight into the students’ actual labour market

gains from graduating between the year 2003 and until 2012. We perform a

regression analysis controlling for different variables and their individual effect

on our key dependent labour market variables; Wage and Employement. In

addition, we use an instrumental variable approach to study the effect of the

Progression requirement, a measure introduced in 2006, in an attempt to reduce

the share of bachelor dropouts.

Our main findings point to the fact that completing a bachelor degree at BI has

a positive impact on both wage and employment; graduating before the age of

25 increased wages and degree of employment, at age 25, with respectively 62%

and 13%, compared to the reference group whom never graduates. Further,

when studying the marginal and non-marginal students separately, we found

that both groups indeed experience higher wages from graduating. However,

there is seemingly evidence of a stronger relationship between graduating on

wages for the non-marginal students; graduating before turning 25 led to 68%

higher wages at age 25, compared to 49% for the marginal students. Thus,

our results do point to a case of positive selection. Finally our IV-estimates,

investigating the effect of the Progression requirement, proved that it for a fact

increased student quality by resulting in a 29% higher share of graduates, and

in turn causing a 20% wage growth for the 25 year olds.

Keywords – Educational Economics, labour economics, Marginal students, BI
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Masteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Business, Economics - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2021
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