Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market

Table 3

OLS estimations of log daily wages, women.

	Dutch	Mediterre	Caribbean	Western
Age	0.385***	0.470***	0.251***	0.283***
Age-squared	−0.007***	−0.009***	−0.004***	−0.005***
Years of education-HBO	0.000	0.006	0.000	−0.003
Years of education-WO	0.005	0.039	0.048*	−0.011
Started in WO	−0.056***	−0.064	−0.095	0.006
Switched from HBO to WO-graduated	−0.093***	−0.014	−0.109***	−0.088***
Switched from HBO to WO-dropout	0.018	0.078	0.054	0.089
Years experience during study-HBO	0.049***	0.055**	0.064***	0.045***
Years experience during study-WO	0.041***	0.028	0.001	0.041**
Years since graduation-HBO	0.222***	0.175***	0.201***	0.215***
Years since graduation-HBO-squared	−0.021***	−0.013**	−0.016***	−0.021***
Years since graduation-WO	0.337***	0.283***	0.334***	0.370***
Years since graduation-WO-squared	−0.036***	−0.027	−0.036***	−0.043***
Years experience during interruption	0.150***	0.174**	0.158***	0.132***
Years experience after dropping out-HBO	0.101**	0.756***	0.182	0.133
Years experience after dropping out-WO	0.162***	0.186***	0.158***	0.158***
Drop-out	0.255***	0.277***	0.226***	0.271***
Years since dropout-HBO	−0.087***	−0.094	−0.078	−0.074*
Years since dropout-WO	−0.017	−0.702**	−0.117	−0.050
Graduated at HBO level	0.168***	0.222***	0.156***	0.154***
Graduated at WO level	0.098***	0.076	0.079	0.046
Educational studies	0.062***	0.062	0.073	0.009
Humanities	−0.067***	−0.003	−0.041	−0.063*
Economics and law	0.068***	0.033	0.115**	0.064**
Natural sciences	−0.046***	−0.060	0.052	−0.020
Health	0.054***	−0.004	0.031	0.014
Social services	0.019*	0.020	0.091*	0.018
Cohabiting	0.027***	−0.008	0.052**	0.025*
Constant	−1.604***	−2.590**	0.087	−0.320
N	216276	4766	8072	18489
R-squared	0.306	0.25	0.233	0.258

* P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001.
Note that nongraduated, noncohabiting and year 1999 are the associated reference groups for graduates, cohabiting and years.
Standard errors are corrected for multiple observations for each individual.