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The consequences of long term unemployment : evidence from matched employer-employee data

Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, … - 2016

It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity)....

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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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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates

Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023

We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...

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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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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US

Winters, John V. - 2013

increase the stock of college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, but data … uses the 2009-2011 American Community Survey to examine the external effects of college graduates in STEM and non …-STEM fields on the wages of other workers in the same metropolitan area. I find that both types of college graduates create …

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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014

graduates. …

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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …

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The earnings returns to graduating with honors : evidence from law graduates

Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - 2015

the context of German law graduates. Using a difference-in-differences research design combined with entropy balancing, we …

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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 … China decreases unemployment rates, especially among males and high school graduates. However, the policy also decreases …

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Transitions from school to work : search time and job duration

Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 1998

We consider the early labour market experience of young persons. Using a large data sample of Norwegian individuals finishing education in 1989-91, we analyse the transition from school to work and the duration of the first job. We allow the search duration, the accepted wage, and the job...

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