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The labor market returns to "first in family" university graduates
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2022
We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty....
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Family background, education, and earnings : the limited value of "test-score transmission"
Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2024
Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving...
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …
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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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Returns to higher education : graduate and discipline premiums
Zhu, Yu; Xu, Lei - 2022
This chapter 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254212
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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022
heterogeneity across countries, gender, and geography (rural/ urban). Cohort based estimates suggest that the effects of father …. Compared to the risk adjusted measures, the standard measures are likely to underestimate gender gap and rural-urban gap in …
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The labour market for native and international PhD students : similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers
Tani, Massimiliano - 2020
(STEM), for which they receive a premium that is unrelated to observed characteristics such as gender, age, and previous …
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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020
We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …
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Does it pay to study abroad? : evidence from Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2017
Purpose: This paper tries to identify the impact of international student mobility on the first wages of tertiary education graduates in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: The author uses data from the nationwide tracer survey of Polish graduates (Graduate Tracer Study 2007) and regresses the...
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The wage effects of polytechnic degrees : evidence from the 1999 China higher education expansion
Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024
While the wage effects of vocational versus academic secondary education are well documented, there is little evidence on how polytechnics degrees pay off compared to university degrees. In this paper, we estimate the polytechnic degree wage effect in China, drawing on an unprecedented higher...
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