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,000 graduates from undergraduate degrees in the UK in 2013. Labour market outcomes at six-months and 42-months post-graduation are …, with arguments from both equity and efficiency for policies to help graduates to attain graduate level jobs. …
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We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates' work possibilities as … entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000 inhabitant-increase in the size of the individual's province … markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: every 100,000-inhabitant …
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The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...
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During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper …. We therefore define three groups of graduates: matched, apparently over-educated and genuinely over-educated; to compare … pre- and post-expansion cohorts of graduates. We find the proportion of over-educated graduates has doubled, even though …
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This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK …
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We collected personality (Big Five) and demographic characteristics, and ran incentivized experiments measuring cognitive skills (non-verbal IQ, numeracy, backward induction/ planning), and economic (time, risk) preferences, with 100 students at a small public undergraduate liberal arts college...
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graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study …
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entrepreneurship track also heightened graduates' optimism toward the future shortly after the Tunisian revolution. -- youth employment …
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This paper reviews and evaluates progress in recent research on the graduate premium in general as well as the differential graduate premiums by discipline, accounting for higher-education choice by individuals under substantial uncertainty. The contribution of this review, relative to previous...
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) institution. The empirical design of our paper builds on evidence relative to first labour market entry of graduates to identify a … matched unique employer-employee dataset we report the extent of horizontal mismatch for graduates of different fields of … duration on the likelihood of a horizontal mismatch separately for each field of education. We find that graduates from …
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