This paper provides estimates of the short-term individual returns to Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom …

Academic education is generally rewarded by employers, but what happens to graduates if they are trained for two years …, we analyze labor market entries of individuals eligible for higher education, who either opted for newly introduced short … fixed-term employment at the bachelor’s and the master’s level. Overall, ‘general’ academic education provides advantages …

This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European … enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less than university graduates. Moreover, university dropouts do not appear to have … than those graduating from tertiary education. We document substantial heterogeneity across countries concerning whether …

We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution … variables, such as employment, earnings, and household formation. To estimate the returns to higher education, we link our … vocational training, the alternative to higher education, to be financially more rewarding. We demonstrate how the taxtransfer …

education for college graduates and college dropouts. Completing a five-year college degree is found to be associated with an …

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative … university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …

preferred field of study are more likely to change their field, delay graduation and drop out of university. The estimated …