abstract: 'Research consistently shows that higher-education participation has

  positive impacts on individual outcomes. However, few studies explicitly

  consider differences in these impacts by socio-economic background

  (SEB), and those which do fail to examine graduate trajectories over the

  long run, non-labor outcomes and relative returns. We address these

  knowledge gaps by investigating the short- and long-term socio-economic

  trajectories of Australian university graduates from advantaged and

  disadvantaged backgrounds across multiple domains. We use high-quality

  longitudinal data from two sources: the Australian Longitudinal Census

  Dataset and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia

  Survey. Low-SEB graduates experienced short-term post-graduation

  disadvantage in employment and occupational status, but not wages. They

  also experienced lower job and financial security up to 5 years

  post-graduation. Despite this, low-SEB graduates benefited more from

  higher education in relative terms-that is, university education

  improves the situation of low-SEB individuals to a greater extent than

  it does for high-SEB individuals.'
affiliation: 'Tomaszewski, W (Corresponding Author), Univ Queensland, Inst Social
  Sci Res, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068, Australia.

  Tomaszewski, W (Corresponding Author), Univ Queensland, Australian Res Council,
  Ctr Excellence Children \& Families Life Course, Indooroopilly, Qld, Australia.

  Tomaszewski, Wojtek; Perales, Francisco; Xiang, Ning; Kubler, Matthias, Univ Queensland,
  Inst Social Sci Res, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068, Australia.

  Tomaszewski, Wojtek; Perales, Francisco; Xiang, Ning; Kubler, Matthias, Univ Queensland,
  Australian Res Council, Ctr Excellence Children \& Families Life Course, Indooroopilly,
  Qld, Australia.'
author: Tomaszewski, Wojtek and Perales, Francisco and Xiang, Ning and Kubler, Matthias
author-email: w.tomaszewski@uq.edu.au
author_list:
- family: Tomaszewski
  given: Wojtek
- family: Perales
  given: Francisco
- family: Xiang
  given: Ning
- family: Kubler
  given: Matthias
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s11162-019-09578-4
earlyaccessdate: OCT 2019
eissn: 1573-188X
files: []
issn: 0361-0365
journal: RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION
keywords: 'Higher education; Post-graduate outcomes; Longitudinal trajectories;

  Panel data; Australia'
language: English
month: FEB
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '50'
orcid-numbers: 'Tomaszewski, Wojtek/0000-0003-4144-8613

  Pérez, Francisco Perales/0000-0001-7508-9431'
pages: 26-44
papis_id: e80f5eeba0d4bc42591bbbe7cacae9b4
ref: Tomaszewski2021graduationsocioecono
researcherid-numbers: 'Tomaszewski, Wojtek/M-7379-2013

  Pérez, Francisco Perales/F-9549-2014'
times-cited: '7'
title: 'Beyond Graduation: Socio-economic Background and Post-university Outcomes
  of Australian Graduates'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000488933100001
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '62'
web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
year: '2021'