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Outside options drive wage inequalities in continuing jobs : evidence from a natural experiment

Lukesch, Veronika; Zwick, Thomas - 2021

entropy matching on the basis of a large representative administrative linked employer-employee panel data set to guarantee …

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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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Does a Bachelor's degree pay off? : labor market outcomes of academic versus vocational education after Bologna

Neugebauer, Martin; Weiss, Felix - 2017

Academic education is generally rewarded by employers, but what happens to graduates if they are trained for two years less and have to compete with vocationally trained labor market entrants in a similar field of study? Focusing on Germany, we analyze labor market entries of individuals...

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Confidence and college applications : evidence from a randomized intervention

Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Schmacker, Renke; Terrier, Camille - 2023

-SES students. By matching our survey data with administrative data on real college applications and admissions, we show that …

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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss

Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022

Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to...

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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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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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Inequalities in student to course match : evidence from linked administrative data

Campbell, Stuart; Macmillan, Lindsey; Murphy, Richard; … - 2019

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Decentralizing centralized matching markets : implications from early offers in university admissions

Grenet, Julien; He, Yinghua; Kübler, Dorothea - 2019

The matching literature commonly rules out that market design itself shapes agent preferences. Underlying this premise … matching process. Under this assumption, a centralized matching market can often outperform a decentralized one. Using a quasi …

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Non-standard choice in matching markets

Caspari, Gian; Khanna, Manshu - 2022

We explore the possibility of designing matching mechanisms that can accommodate non-standard choice behavior. We pin … compatible mechanisms. Our results imply that well-functioning matching markets can be designed to adequately accommodate a … the significance of our results in practice, we show that a simple modification in a commonly used matching mechanism …

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