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Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students

Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Redmond, Cathy - 2011

income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

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Micro-level determinants of lecture attendance and additional study-hours

Ryan, Martin; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm - 2010

to a greater extent than they determine additional study. Finally, we show that family income and financial transfers … (from both parents and the state) do not determine any educational input. This study suggests that non-cognitive abilities …

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The causal effects of adolescent school : bullying victimisation on later life outcomes

Gorman, Emma; Harmon, Colm; Mendolia, Silvia; Staneva, Anita - 2019

We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....

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Graduate employment in the UK : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model

Grazier, Suzanne (contributor); O'Leary, Nigel (contributor) - 2008

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate markups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...

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The return to a university education in Great Britain

Sloane, Peter J. (contributor); O'Leary, Nigel (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The effect of overskilling dynamics on wages

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Mahuteau, Stéphane; Sloane, Peter J. - 2012

We use a random effects dynamic probit model to estimate the effect of overskilling dynamics on wages. We find that overskilling mismatch is common and more likely among those who have been overskilled in the past. It is also highly persistent, in a manner that is inversely related to...

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Should i stay or should i go? : an investigation of graduate regional mobility in the UK and its impact upon early career earnings

Kidd, Michael P.; O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014

mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The … to students extending their horizon of job search. A bivariate probit analysis also confirms that there is a positive …

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Too many graduates? : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001 - 2010

O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...

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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses unique information in the WERS and HILDA surveys on reported overskilling in the workplace. To a degree, the overskilling information overcomes the problem of unobserved ability...

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Human capital spill-overs within the workplace

Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001

An individual's human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level controls. In this paper, we use a unique matched worker-workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own...

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