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The objective measurement of world-leading research
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015
citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477884
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Is graduate under-employment persistent? : evidence from the United Kingdom
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2011
This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of individuals who graduated in 2002/3, micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency, are used to calculate the rates of "non-graduate job" employment 6 months and 42...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523539
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University quality and graduate wages in the UK
Hussain, Iftikhar; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2009
We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We explore the implications of using different measures of quality and combining them into an aggregate measure. Our findings suggest a positive return to university quality with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817886
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Did the Bologna Process challenge the German apprenticeship system? : evidence from a natural experiment
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2020
Starting in 1999, the Bologna Process reformed the German five-year study system for a first degree into the three-year bachelor's (BA) system to harmonize study lengths in Europe and improve competitiveness. This reform unintentionally challenged the German apprenticeship system that offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305204
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Caught in the cycle: economic conditions at enrollment and labor market outcomes of college graduates
Bičáková, Alena; Cortes, Guido Matias; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020
We find robust evidence that cohorts of male graduates who start college during worse economic times earn higher average wages than those who start during better times. This gap is not explained by differences in selection into employment, in economic conditions at the time of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258224
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The graduate wage and earnings premia and the role of non-cognitive skills
Buchmueller, Gerda; Walker, Ian - 2020
Estimates of the graduate earnings premium typically do not allow for the effect of non-cognitive skills. Since such skills are unobservable in most datasets there is a concern that existing estimates of the graduate premium are contaminated by selection on such unobservables. We use data on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214119
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How should peer-review panels behave?
Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
measures ought to be used in a REF. -- university evaluation ; RAE Research Assessment Exercise 2008 ; citations … Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations … an intuitive way on the concept of Bayesian updating (where citations gradually reveal information about the initially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672292
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Child mental health and educational attainment : multiple observers and the measurement error problem
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2011
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310701
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Gender differences in peer recognition by economists
Card, David E.; Della Vigna, Stefano; Funk, Patricia; … - 2021
We study the selection of Fellows of the Econometric Society, using a new data set of publications and citations for …% increase in the probability of selection for female authors relative to males with similar publications and citations. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581568
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Publishing and promotion in economics : the tyranny of the top five
Heckman, James J.; Moktan, Sidharth - 2018
This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U.S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a...
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