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After graduation many students start working in sectors not related to their field of study or participate in training targeted at work in other sectors. In this paper, we look at mobility immediately after graduation from the perspective that educational choices have been made when these pupils...
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particular for university graduates. For them, at least 40 percent of overall wage growth over a ten year period can be …
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This paper develops a model of equilibrium unemployment with (unobservable) endogenous on-the-job search and (partly unobservable) endogenous search behavior by firms. The model allows to analyze crowding-out of unemployed job seekers by endogenous on-the job search of employees, and the...
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The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...
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entrepreneurship track also heightened graduates' optimism toward the future shortly after the Tunisian revolution. …
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This paper investigates the differences in early occupational earnings of UK male graduates by degree subject during …
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of return to graduates or graduate markups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising … supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … defines graduate jobs in terms of the proportion of graduates and/or the graduate earnings markup within occupations, we find …
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There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and … cast light on these issues, based on data for UK graduates. REFLEX examines the labour market status of graduates five …
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The wages of part-time workers are considerably lower than are those of full-time workers. Measurable worker and job characteristics, including occupational skill requirements, account for much of the part-time penalty. Longitudinal analysis indicates that much of the remaining gap reflects...
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and high-school graduates, ii) the rise in the college-premium, iii) the rise in within wage inequality iv) the …
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