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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 … consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first degree, and postgraduate qualifications. Ordinary Least Squares …

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime … employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no significant …

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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes : A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2006

The educational and labor market outcomes of the first, first-and-a-half, second and third generations of immigrants to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy...

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Non-Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits : Labour Market Relevance and Their Development in Education & Training Systems

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

This paper reviews the empirical economic literature on the relative importance of non cognitive skills for school and labour market outcomes, with a focus on Europe. There is evidence that high cognitive test scores are likely to result not only from high cognitive skills but also from high...

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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market

Riddell, W. Craig - 2011

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment …, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that … significantly increases re-employment rates of the unemployed. Particularly large impacts are found in the neighborhoods of 12 and …

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Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement

Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew; … - 2022

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multi-dimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....

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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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The Over-Education Wage Penalty Among Phd Holders : A European Perspective

Rycx, Francois; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022

, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over …

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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants

Cheng, Zhiming - 2020

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

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Labour Market Mismatch Among UK Graduates : An Analysis Using Reflex Data

McGuinness, Seamus - 2009

There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society (REFLEX) data set to cast light on these issues, based on data for UK...

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