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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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Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper … investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean … wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most …
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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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This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia … work experience. In contrast, foreign PhD graduates with a non-English speaking background experience worse labour market …
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We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS …
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, mainly focusing on the United States, has found that graduates of prestigious and selective colleges enjoy a wage premium … over graduates of other institutions when they enter the labour market. In this paper, we use data from the Graduate …
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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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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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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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