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Abstract
This paper presents research on the returns to tertiary education for individuals who graduated between 1997 and 2008 with bachelor degrees from universities and polytechnics in New Zealand based on their experiences post study. It examines data on their post‐study earnings drawn from two longitudinal datasets linking administrative data on individuals’ tertiary education records to their earnings. An advantage of this research is that it reports on differences in the earnings of those who studied in specific fields of study at polytechnics and universities. The data are used to help shed light on the importance of reputational capital in reproducing social classes.
Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank Jamie Hyatt for his help with the data used in this paper.
Notes
1. ‘Earnings’ in this context refers to income from wages, salaries and self‐employment, but excludes income from sources such as interest, dividends, rents and benefits.
2. It is planned that this dataset will be extended annually with new cohorts of data.
3. The present paper extends an earlier report published by the New Zealand Ministry of Education (Smyth et al. Citation2009).
4. Field of study is classified according to the New Zealand Standard Classification of Education. http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/technical_info/code_sets/new_zealand_standard_classification_of_education_nzsced for details.