replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage … the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …

expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries …. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations … of the deviation of individual expectations from actual wages can not be explained, we find that rates of return to …

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … estimated on market data: higher wage risk for educational groups is associated with higher mean wages. With observations on …

students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and …

-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points – equivalent to 3 ….7 native students displaced for 9 additional foreign students in an average course. STEM displacement is offset by an increased …

study, we focus on the reliability of students’ earnings expectations. To what extent is observed log earnings expectations …