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This paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address endogeneity with an IV approach that exploits information regarding whether the internship was a mandatory component of the study. We further address selection into programs with...
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problem nowadays is the unemployment among graduates. The universities from developed countries, particularly in the European … topic discusses the skills that these graduates will need to meet the requirements of the labour market. Divided into … graduates from HEIs, analysed from the perspective of employers. The sample in Portugal will choose among 1000 employers from …
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available in the Additional file 1. We find that the massive influx of graduates into the labour force has been absorbed with no … overeducated graduates increased by 11 log points. Using the British Household Panel Study, we find that the persistence of … overeducation status did not change but for non-employed male graduates moving into employment, the chances of entering a graduate …
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We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...
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We study how signaling skills that are specific to college majors affect labor market outcomes of college graduates. We …
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, this article deals with the evaluation of soft skills of graduates from Czech public universities. The results show that … the same soft skills are required from university graduates as from the population as a whole (only problem solving is … more pronounced with them), but the required level of these skills is 42% higher in the case of graduates. Unfortunately …
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to assess soft skills, during the recruitment process and those to develop soft skills of graduates, during their first … years on the job. In January 2017, two symmetrical online questionnaires have been sent to 500 HR managers and 240 graduates … of a European business school, in Italy and Germany. Findings Results show that graduates and managers describe …
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Employability is a key issue in graduates’ job-hunting, but little research has been done on that of the graduates in …-based theoretical framework to evaluate and analyze the graduates’ employability in China. It adopts multiple approaches to establish … from the universities in Beijing, the paper explores the characteristics of and factors influencing the graduates …
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