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tied-mover models. Partnered college graduates like to live in major cities regardless of their gender or the …
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observed characteristics. Most notably, Mediterranean female graduates have significant positive wage discrimination while … Western female graduates seem to face a small wage penalty. -- college ; university ; wages ; qualifications ; dropout …
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fertility by endogamous couples, i.e., by tertiary graduates from the same field of study, declines for women and increases for …
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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others - are exophobic - or because they favor their own kind - are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
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Understanding employer preferences for characteristics of young workers is crucial to designing effective policies to reduce youth unemployment in developing countries. We conduct a randomized resume audit study, simultaneously examining the returns to education, experience, and physical...
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The paper investigates the gender wage gap among recently graduated people, controlling for job and academic variables and for the field of study, as women lag in highly remunerative majors. The raw gender gap in hourly wages is 5.6%. Although including academic variables and the field of study,...
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We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and …
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national survey of three cohorts of French university graduates in economics, we examine the gender differential in early … career earnings. There is a significant raw differential in favour of male economics graduates in both starting pay and … but have not disappeared. The raw male-female pay differential stood at 10% for economics graduates in 2013. An Oaxaca …
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This paper contributes to the literature on the earnings returns to university graduation. Recent evidence using administrative earnings data from England suggests a zero return to graduation for men and positive returns to graduation for women in annual earnings at age 26. We show that once...
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, distinguishing between those who are the first in their family to graduate from a university (FiF), graduates with a graduate parent …, and non-graduates. Our findings reveal that while on average, graduate women have fewer children than non-graduates, this … difference is driven by FiF graduates. FiF women tend to have fewer children than both non-FiF graduates and non-graduates, who …
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