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favoritism nor discrimination by gender, findings that are robust to a wide variety of potential concerns. We observe … heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. We …
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analysis provides novel evidence for the magnitude and the origin of ethnic wage differentials by gender. In general, ethnic … 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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national survey of three cohorts of French university graduates in economics, we examine the gender differential in early … chemistry (taken together) where a majority of graduates are male. The gender pay gap is smaller and the general level of … unexplained component. Gender differences in occupation suggest that female economics graduates are under-represented in more …
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In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing …
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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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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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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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This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia … (STEM), for which they receive a premium that is unrelated to observed characteristics such as gender, age, and previous … 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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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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