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Is there a role for higher education institutions in improving the quality of first employment?
McGuinness, Séamus; Whelan, Adele; Bergin, Adele - 2016
This paper examines the potential role of higher education institutions in reducing labour market mismatch amongst new graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study, will reduce the incidence of initial mismatch....
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Postgraduate student recruitment strategies in a transforming higher education landscape, South Africa
Konyana, Samkele Vuyokazi Mizpha - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310397
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Graduating from a less selective university during a recession: evidence from mobility report cards and employer recruiting
Weinstein, Russell - 2021
Using mobility report card data, I show graduates of less selective universities experience more adverse impacts of graduating in a recession. I highlight one mechanism: during recessions employers stop recruiting at less selective universities. Using a unique dataset of employer recruiting...
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Academic Faculty Governance and Recruitment Decisions
Prufer, Jens; Walz, Uwe - 2011
We analyze the implications of the governance structure in academic faculties for their recruitment decisions when … average status of their fellow members. In recruitment decisions, incumbent members trade off the effect of entry on average … faculty status against alternative uses of the recruitment budget if no entry takes place. We show that the best candidates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174769
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Academic Faculty Governance and Recruitment Decisions
Prufer, Jens; Walz, Uwe - 2011
We analyze the implications of the governance structure in academic faculties for their recruitment decisions when … average status of their fellow members. In recruitment decisions, incumbent members trade off the effect of entry on average … faculty status against alternative uses of the recruitment budget if no entry takes place. We show that the best candidates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207140
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Skills and the graduate recruitment process : evidence from two discrete choice experiments
Humburg, Martin; Velden, Rolf van der - 2014
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Making markets material : enactments, resistances, and erasures of materiality in the graduate labour market
Loza, Olga; Roscoe, Philip - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 38 (2024) 3, pp. 684-704
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2007
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree – the “college premium”. The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled – yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a...
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Sheer class? : Returns to educational performance : evidence from UK graduates' first destination labour market outcomes
Naylor, Robin A. (contributor); Smith, Jeremy (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003431925
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Labour market disadvantage of ethnic minority British graduates : university choice, parental background or neighbourhood?
Zwysen, Wouter; Longhi, Simonetta - 2016
We compare school-to-work transitions of British graduates belonging to ethnic minorities to those of white British. Six months after graduation ethnic minorities are substantially less likely to be employed than white British even after accounting for parental background, local area...
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