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Does a Bachelor's degree pay off? : labor market outcomes of academic versus vocational education after Bologna
Neugebauer, Martin; Weiss, Felix - 2017
universities are also related to higher risks of unemployment or fixed-term employment. Universities of applied sciences, which … fixed-term employment at the bachelor’s and the master’s level. Overall, ‘general’ academic education provides advantages …
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476804
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039
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Preferred field of study and academic performance
Berlingieri, Francesco; Diegmann, André; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of studying the first-choice university subject on dropout and switching field of study for a cohort of students in Germany. Using detailed survey data, and employing an instrumental variable strategy based on variation in the local field of study availability,...
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International student exchange and academic performance
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Joosten, Wytse; Toivanen, Otto - 2021 - This version: January 2021
International student exchange has become an important part of university-level studies and the EU plans to increase it significantly. We analyze how international student exchange affects students’ academic human capital. Using detailed student-level data from four faculties (Economics and...
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Returns to higher education and dropouts : a double machine learning approach
McNamara, Sarah - 2020
outcomes for dropouts vs. individuals who have never attended HE, where outcomes are employment, wages and occupational status …
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Earnings of university dropouts across Europe
Berlingieri, Francesco; Bolz, Theresa - 2020
better employment chances than other upper secondary graduates while they have a significantly lower employment probability …
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The private and fiscal returns to higher education : a simulation approach for a young German cohort
Fischer, Benjamin; Hügle, Dominik - 2020
variables, such as employment, earnings, and household formation. To estimate the returns to higher education, we link our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390722
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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...
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Working longer, working stronger? : the forward-looking effects of increasing the retirement age on (un)employment behaviour
Gohl, Niklas - 2023
increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using … probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the … unemployed. Heterogeneity analyses show that the demonstrated employment effects are strongest for women and in occupations with …
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