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Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the...
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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 … Australian labour market and to determine the extent to which it is due merely to the recruitment of better students. We find …
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After increasing in the 1970s and 1980s, time to bachelor's degree has declined since the 1990s. We document this fact using data from three nationally representative surveys. We show that this pattern is occurring across school types and for all student types. Using administrative student...
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This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to general high school (GHS) education in Turkey using census data. To address non-random selection into high school types, we collect construction dates of the VHSs at the...
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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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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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to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to … also that graduates from higher socioeconomic status have an advantage in accessing internships while being significantly …
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We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …
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High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate … dropout for students who have difficulty passing tests, with a larger effect on minority students. To mitigate this, some … states offer alternative, non-tested pathways to graduation for students who have failed their exit exams. This study …
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Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job...
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