Working while studying at university increases the time-to-degree and may interfere with learning, but the acquired … university students' employment decisions affect their labor market success after the graduation. The study is based on an … individual panel data set of Finnish university students. The data set covers the years 1987-1998, which was a period of …

female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been …

A new Swedish dataset is used to examine the relationships between education, experience and earnings. We focus on four … different kinds of experience affect earnings differently. …

GPA and earnings for graduate degree holders but a large and positive relationship for people without a graduate degree … the lens of this equilibrium, the zero GPA-earnings relationship for graduate degree holders and the positive and large …

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect … is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control … non-trivial earnings penalty. The main source of the persistent penalty appears to be the loss of work experience after …

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish … labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether … generated by domestic market forces or international trade: Swedish exports (imports) raise (lower) annual earnings, but changes …