학교에서 직장으로의 이전과정에서 영어의 역할

This study examines how English preparedness during college years is associated with labor market performance after graduation. The results provide no strong evidence that English readiness has a positive impact on the employment possibility. Similarly, English preparedness does not appear to have any significant impact on the duration from graduation to the first job. The effect of English preparedness on the transition to work, which appears to be positive in a regression without any controls, becomes statistically insignificant when individual and household characteristics are considered in the model. On the other hand, the effect of English preparedness or official English exam scores on wages at the first job differed by identification methods that were employed. In some models, the wage effect appears to be positive, while it is statistically insignificant. The finding that the positive effect of English preparedness might be at most limited to wages implies that the substantial investment on English may not be very economically efficient both on individual and the entire economy's perspectives.