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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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Entrepreneurship and Market Size : The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia - 2010
We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduatesﾒ work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000 inhabitant-increase in the size of the individualﾒs province of work reduces the chances of being an...
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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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Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2011
in wages within subjects are also large. We then simulate a graduate tax to calculate a willingness to pay in form of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126140
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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination
Salamanca, Nicolas - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others – are exophobic – or because they favor their own kind – are endophilic? This difference matters, as the...
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Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates?
Pietro, Giorgio Di - 2013
Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes, relatively little research has been conducted to explore their benefits. Using data on a large sample of recent Italian graduates, this paper investigates the extent to which participation in study abroad programs during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073859
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The Relative Returns to Education, Experience, and Attractiveness for Young Workers
Beam, Emily - 2017
Understanding employer preferences for characteristics of young workers is crucial to designing effective policies to reduce youth unemployment in developing countries. We conduct a randomized resume audit study, simultaneously examining the returns to education, experience, and physical...
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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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