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supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … that the employment of graduates in non-graduate jobs has declined over time. Hence, there is no evidence of an over …There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates …
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outcomes. Our results suggest that employment decreases the time that high school students spend on human …We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use … Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities …
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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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regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other occupations for luring graduates out of … scientific occupations. Using a survey of recent British graduates from Higher Education we report that fewer than 50% of science … graduates work in a scientific occupation three years after graduation. The wage premium observed for science graduates stems …
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This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of … rates of non-graduate job employment 6 months and 42 months after graduation. A logit regression analysis suggests the … that under-employment 6 months after graduation is positively related to under-employment 42 months after graduation, which …
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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that (i) at the … and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of the …
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cohorts of students in England - those who took GCSEs in 2001-02 and 2002-03 - from age 11 to age 20. The findings suggest … hold for both state and private school students. This suggests that poor attainment in secondary schools is more important … in explaining lower HE participation rates amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds than barriers arising at the …
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suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …
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employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established … different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...
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