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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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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 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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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 …
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relationship between overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China. We find consistent evidence, across …
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process and in the life course. Applying multinomial logit modelling on the unique database on Polish graduates we find that …
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This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The clear finding is that mobility is associated with...
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role in helping young graduates develop the work experience and the competences they need to prevent them from experiencing … address the aim of generating competences rather than only education for their graduates. …
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educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the … state if the college graduates leave the state after finishing their education. This paper examines the relationship between … the production of college graduates from a state and the stock of college graduates residing in the state using microdata …
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the context of German law graduates. Using a difference-in-differences research design combined with entropy balancing, we …
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