We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and … the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and …, aspirations, and their interconnectedness, an issue explained in the context of a rich, longitudinal data set. Apart from this …

This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …

is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male … graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap. …

conducted to explore their benefits. Using data on a large sample of recent Italian graduates, this paper investigates the … have on the employment prospects of graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. …

-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique … the results to the U.S. We find that (1) U.S. graduates hold more jobs than European graduates. (2) Contrasting …

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 suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … defines graduate jobs in terms of the proportion of graduates and/or the graduate earnings mark-up within occupations, we find …

terms of aspirations and capabilities and, additionally, the importance of those factors can change during the education … process and in the life course. Applying multinomial logit modelling on the unique database on Polish graduates we find that … repeat migration is driven particularly by characteristics related to level of aspirations and return migration - by low …

There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and … cast light on these issues, based on data for UK graduates. REFLEX examines the labour market status of graduates five …