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Should i stay or should i go? : an investigation of graduate regional mobility in the UK and its impact upon early career earnings

Kidd, Michael P.; O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014

This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The clear finding is that mobility is associated with...

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Are short-lived jobs stepping stones to long-lasting jobs?

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2009

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...

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Differences by degree : evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK …

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Overeducation: a disease of the school-to-work transition system

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

role in helping young graduates develop the work experience and the competences they need to prevent them from experiencing … address the aim of generating competences rather than only education for their graduates. …

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Crime scars : recessions and the making of career criminals

Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - 2014

Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns suffer from poor job matches that have a sustained detrimental effect on their wages and career...

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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 … CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates who studied in universities that are ranked in better positions … universities' research intensity can positively affect their graduates' invitations to interviews and entry-level annual salaries …

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Why do some young adults not graduate from upper secondary school? : on the importance of signals of labour market failure

Gustafsson, Björn; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2016

In high-income countries, not completing secondary school often entails a high risk of social exclusion. Using data on young adults born in 1985 that grew up in metropolitan Sweden, we study factors associated with not graduating from upper secondary school at age 21. Our hypothesis is that if a...

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Is there a role for higher education institutions in improving the quality of first employment?

McGuinness, Séamus; Whelan, Adele; Bergin, Adele - 2016

graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study …

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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015

We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...

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Educational track, networks and labor market outcomes

Margolis, David N. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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