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, mainly focusing on the United States, has found that graduates of prestigious and selective colleges enjoy a wage premium … over graduates of other institutions when they enter the labour market.In this paper, we use data from the Graduate …
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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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Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the … CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates who studied in universities that are ranked in better positions …' research intensity can positively affect their graduates' invitations to interviews and entry-level annual salaries …
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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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The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...
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graduates of Scottish higher education institutions with micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency. The … 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 …
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We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and …
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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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true for college graduates, who tend to have more successful businesses. Access to childcare may also affect their labor …
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College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference … is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas … paper uses microdata from the American Community Survey to examine how the migration decisions of young college graduates …
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