Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market

Table 1

Descriptive statistics in 2005.

	Dutch	Mediter.	Caribbean	Western
Daily wage	122.56	119.97	122.96	121.31
Women	0.51	0.45	0.55	0.52
Age	28.17	29.13	28.93	28.56
Second generation		0.79	0.65	0.87
Immigrated between 08/1995–1996	0.01	0.02	0.18	0.05
Immigrated between 08/1993−1995	0.00	0.04	0.08	0.06
Years of education-HBO	5.42	5.91	6.15	5.72
Years of education-WO	6.77	7.10	7.22	7.00
Started at WO level	0.26	0.18	0.22	0.33
Switched from HBO to WO-graduated	0.09	0.10	0.11	0.08
Switched from HBO to WO-not graduated	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.01
Years experience during study-HBO	1.48	1.78	1.93	1.60
Years experience during study-WO	2.75	3.35	3.29	2.72
Years experience during interruption^#	0.09	0.08	0.08	0.08
Graduated at HBO level	0.53	0.45	0.44	0.43
Graduated at WO level	0.22	0.13	0.14	0.23
Years since HBO graduation	4.83	4.40	4.32	4.52
Years since WO graduation	3.04	2.70	2.48	2.80
Years since HBO dropout	5.73	5.22	4.93	5.67
Years since WO dropout	3.43	2.21	2.50	3.47
Educational studies	0.14	0.11	0.09	0.11
Humanities	0.06	0.02	0.04	0.11
Economics and law	0.27	0.45	0.41	0.28
Natural sciences	0.21	0.15	0.19	0.19
Health	0.18	0.11	0.13	0.16
Social Services	0.08	0.12	0.10	0.08
Cohabiting	0.62	0.62	0.46	0.53
N	65418	1660	2431	5902

^# Years of experience during interruption measures the experience of those who interrupted their study for a while but eventually graduated.