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Early Gender Gaps Among University Graduates
Francesconi, Marco - 2018
We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and labor market performance twelve to eighteen months after graduation. Men and women enter college in roughly equal numbers, but more women than men complete their degrees. Women...
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Post-Secondary Education in Canada : Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap between College and University Graduates?
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2007
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into...
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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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Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes : Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates
Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2010
The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...
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Immigrant Educators and Students' Academic Achievement
Seah, Kelvin - 2016
Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an … immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in the United States. To account for the … different types of students, two estimation strategies are employed. The first estimates the immigrant teacher impact by …
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Quotas and Quality : The Effect of H-1b Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad
Kato, Takao - 2010
expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa provides a primary means of legal employment for …, hence lowering the probability of a college-educated foreign-national finding employment, and possibly discouraging highly … qualified international students from attending US colleges and universities. However, citizens from five countries are de facto …
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The Relative Labour Market Performance of Former International Students : Evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey
Chen, Zong - 2017
Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …
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The Labour Market for Native and International Phd Students : Similarities, Differences, and the Role of (University) Employers
Tani, Massimiliano - 2020
This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...
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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the Oru Earnings Equation?
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
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How Do Latin American Migrants in the U.S. Stand on Schooling Premium? What Does it Reveal About Education Quality in Their Home Countries?
Alonso-Soto, Daniel - 2017
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
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