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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
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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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023
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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Does It pay to graduate from an "elite" university in Australia?
Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845793
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022747
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Catching up is hard to do : undergraduate prestige, elite graduate programs, and the earnings premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the … graduates of nonselective institutions earn post-baccalaureate degrees from elite institutions, and even when they do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116308
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
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Adult education attendance and postsecondary outcomes
Kouwe, Thomas; Ribar, David C.; Greenberg, Daphne; … - 2023
This paper analyzes postsecondary enrollment and academic outcomes for people who attended adult education classes in Georgia between July 2017 and December 2020, using linked administrative records for students in the state's adult education, technical college, and university systems. The paper...
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Access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships
Holford, Angus - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672684
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Do earnings by college major affect graduate migration?
Winters, John V. - 2015
College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference … is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas … paper uses microdata from the American Community Survey to examine how the migration decisions of young college graduates …
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