Does Single-Sex Schooling Help or Hurt Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in South Korea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngju Lee ◽  
Nobuhiko Nakazawa
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Single Sex

scholarly journals Changes in Early Labor Market Outcomes among Young College Graduates in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 688 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Jaesung Choi ◽  
Hannah Bae
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
South Korea ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Uncertainty ◽  
College Entrance ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Critical Policy ◽  
Over Time

The unemployment rate among youths (age 20–29) in South Korea has increased sharply from 6.6 percent in 2002 to 9.8 percent in 2016. At the same time, the college entrance rate remains around 70 percent, and skill mismatch among college goers is a critical policy concern. Little attention has been paid to temporal change in labor market outcomes among college graduates or to the kinds of graduates who are particularly vulnerable to labor market uncertainty. We investigate how labor market experiences for college graduates have changed over time using data from nine different graduating cohorts of the Graduate Occupational Mobility Survey (GOMS). The results reveal that the proportion of those searching for a job has increased over time, and that even for those who were employed, job quality deteriorated. We also find a growing gap in labor market outcomes by reputation of graduating universities and college major.

scholarly journals Imprisonment and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

2018 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Harding ◽  
Jeffrey D. Morenoff ◽  
Anh P. Nguyen ◽  
Shawn D. Bushway
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes

scholarly journals The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bentley MacLeod ◽  
Evan Riehl ◽  
Juan E. Saavedra ◽  
Miguel Urquiola
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Earnings Growth ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Competitive Labor Market ◽  
Simple Definition

We explore how college reputation affects the “big sort,” the process by which students choose colleges and find their first jobs. We incorporate a simple definition of college reputation—graduates' mean admission scores—into a competitive labor market model. This generates a clear prediction: if employers use reputation to set wages, then the introduction of a new measure of individual skill will decrease the return to reputation. Administrative data and a natural experiment from the country of Colombia confirm this. Finally, we show that college reputation is positively correlated with graduates' earnings growth, suggesting that reputation matters beyond signaling individual skill. (JEL I23, I26, J24, J31)

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