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Community college pathways for disadvantaged students
Holzer, Harry J.; Xu, Zeyu - 2019
In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired … labor market value. We focus on the extent to which students change their choices over time, whether students make well … earnings. Students also change pathways quite frequently, making it harder to accumulate needed credits in their fields …
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The effect of university attended on graduates' labour market prospects : a field study of Great Britain
Drydakis, Nick - 2016
Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates...
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Door opener or waste of time? : the effects of student internships on labor market outcomes
Saniter, Nils Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2014
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience on labor market choices and wages later in life. We use variation in the introduction and abolishment of mandatory internships at German universities as an instrument for completing an internship while attending university....
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Education and labor market consequences of student protests in late 1970s and the subsequent military coup in Turkey
Ozturk, Ahmet; Tumen, Semih - 2018
1970s witnessed violent, widespread, and highly-politicized student protests in Turkey. Small protests turned into bloody street clashes, the death toll exceeded 5,000, and a military coup came in - which resulted in mass arrests. Universities were at the center of the conflict and violence. We...
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The labour market for native and international PhD students: similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers
Tani, Massimiliano - 2020
This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...
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Quality of higher education and the labor market in developing countries : evidence from an education reform in Senegal
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Larouche, Alexandre; Trandafir, … - 2015
While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We exploit the quasi-experiment provided by a large-scale education reform launched in Senegal in 2000 to investigate how...
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Did the "Bologna Process" achieve its goals? : 20 years of empirical evidence on student enrolment, study success and labour market outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students …
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Higher education expansion and labor market outcomes for young college graduates
Ou, Dongshu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...
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Grads on the go : measuring college-specific labor markets for graduates
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - 2022
This paper introduces a new measure of the labor markets served by colleges and universities across the United States. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended, with this figure climbing to 67 percent in-state....
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University selectivity, initial job quality, and longer-run salary
Weinstein, Russell - 2017
year after graduation, high SAT score students earn 12% less if their university's regional rank is worse by 35 places …
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