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Power-couples and the colocation hypothesis revisited

Mariotti, Francesco; Mumford, Karen; Pena-Boquete, Yolanda - 2015

tied-mover models. Partnered college graduates like to live in major cities regardless of their gender or the …

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Ethnic disparities in the graduate labour market

Zorlu, Aslan - 2011

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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Residential location and youth unemployment : the economic geography of school-to-work transitions

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial logit models are estimated for male and female German youth. The models control for individual, parent, and household...

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The quiet revolution and the family : gender composition of tertiary education and early fertility patterns

Bičáková, Alena; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2014

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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Endophilia or exophobia : beyond discrimination

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2013

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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The relative returns to education, experience, and attractiveness for young workers

Beam, Emily A.; Hyman, Joshua; Theoharides, Caroline - 2017

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 gender wage gap among college graduates in Italy

Piazzalunga, Daniela - 2017

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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Early gender gaps among university graduates

Francesconi, Marco; Parey, Matthias - 2018

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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Gender differences in the early career earnings of economics graduates

Bazen, Stephen; Charni, Kadija - 2023

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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The labour market returns to graduation : reconciling administrative and survey data estimates

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Dickson, Matt; Shure, Nikki - 2024

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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