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We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates … China decreases unemployment rates, especially among males and high school graduates. However, the policy also decreases …
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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 socio-economic status have an advantage in accessing internships while being significantly …
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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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We exploit linked survey-administrative data from England to examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose … parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among graduate women, FiF graduates earn 8 …
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Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the … same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting … CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates who studied in universities that are ranked in better positions …
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the first large scale, quantitative evidence on FiF graduates in England using a nationally representative survey linked … two-thirds of all university graduates. Comparing individuals with no parental higher education we show that ethnic … likely to study other Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities than students whose parents are university graduates. We also find …
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data indicate that there is a strong positive relationship between migration and graduate employment – those graduates who … education graduates are leaving Scotland for employment reasons. In turn this finding suggests the over-education/under-employment …This paper examines empirically the relationship between under-employment and migration amongst five cohorts of …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likelihood relative to … employment likelihood relative to GHS degree. However, once we include town-specific socio-economic variables to control for … education, employment, and business activity levels in the town, the IV estimates get much smaller and become statistically …
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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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Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their … preference for graduates studying in different regions to address the self-selection problem of college location. Empirical … results show that the graduates are significantly more likely to stay in where they attended college, to return to their …
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