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Institutional stratification and its effects on wages of higher education graduates in Germany and South Korea

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Lee, Soo Jeung
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Müller, Lars
European Journal of Higher Education
Journal · Vol. 9 · Issue 4 · pp. 433-451
Abstract

This study analyses the effects of institutional stratification in higher education systems on graduates’ wages in engineering fields in Germany and Korea. We use survey data from the Korean 2013 Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey (GOMS) and the German 2013 Graduate Survey Cooperation Project (KOAB). For Korea, where the higher education system is hierarchically stratified by reputation, the study found clear effects of institutional stratification on graduates’ wages. For Germany, where the higher education system is primarily stratified horizontally by type of university and only lightly stratified hierarchically by reputation (although strategic networks are gradually changing this situation), the study found weak effects of institutional stratification on graduates’ wages. The study concludes that institutional stratification affects wages across different higher education systems, although to different degrees. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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South Korea Germany wage Institutional stratification

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Author Affiliations
Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
Universität Kassel, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
Funding & Acknowledgements
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Author Dr. Soo Jeung Lee’s fellowship was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany.
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