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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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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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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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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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Training, wages and a missing school graduation cohort

Dorner, Matthias; Görlitz, Katja - 2020

This study analyzes the effects of a missing high school graduation cohort on firms' training provision and trainees' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the missing cohort to occur. Using administrative social security data on all trainees and training...

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University selectivity and the graduate wage premium : evidence from the UK

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2017

We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS …

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The impact of horizontal job-education mismatches on the earnings of recent university graduates in Russia

Rudakov, Victor; Figueiredo, Hugo; Teixeira, Pedro; … - 2019

university graduates using comprehensive and representative national data for Russia. The study is based in graduates' assessment … and statistical analyses. We find that one-third of graduates in Russia work in a job that is not related to their field … of study. Moreover, graduates from fields that either generate more general human capital (social sciences, business, law …

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