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Differences by Degree : Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales

Walker, Ian - 2010

This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...

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Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market

Zorlu, Aslan - 2011

This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary education system. The study decomposes wage differentials into two components: a component which can be...

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Are They Coming Back? The Mobility of University Students in Switzerland after Graduation

Oggenfuss, Chantal - 2018

explaining graduate mobility, we find that top performing students return less often than do low performers. As a consequence the …

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Chasing Graduate Jobs?

Mosca, Irene - 2012

data indicate that there is a strong positive relationship between migration and graduate employment – those graduates who … move after graduation from Scotland to the rest of the UK or abroad have a much higher rate of graduate employment …. Versions of probit regression are used to estimate migration and graduate employment equations in order to explore the nature …

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Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates

Ou, Dongshu - 2016

We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...

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Do Vocational High School Graduates Have Better Employment Outcomes than General High School Graduates?

Torun, Huzeyfe - 2017

This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likelihood 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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Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2006

During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure...

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Access to and Returns from Unpaid Graduate Internships

Holford, Angus - 2017

We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to this internship experience 3 years later in terms of...

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Does College Location Affect the Location Choice of New College Graduates? Evidence from China

Huang, Mian - 2019

Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their location choice upon graduation. We use a discrete choice model and the BLP method to solve the endogeneity problem of housing cost and to estimate the unobservable location...

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What Do Student Jobs on Graduate Cvs Signal to Employers?

Van Belle, Eva - 2019

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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