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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 … benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics … work experience. In contrast, foreign PhD graduates with a non-English speaking background experience worse labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270214
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Limits to Wage Growth: Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
and employment participation. Empirical evidence favors the "efficiency" over the "discrimination" channels of wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744603
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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; Ñopo, Hugo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744742
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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322527
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The Returns to Schooling Unveiled
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro; … - 2018
We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to education taking into account who the worker is (worker unobserved ability), what he does (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873423
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Does Vocational Education Pay off in China? Evidence from City-Level Education Supply Shocks
Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024
China hosts the world's largest secondary education sector: more than 14 million adolescents enrol in secondary academic or vocational schools every year. Despite the large literature on returns to education, little evidence exists as to how these two streams compare in the country. Using 2013...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567530
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The Wage Returns to Education over the Life-Cycle: Heterogeneity and the Role of Experience
Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - 2015
This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428832
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Labor Market Returns to a Prison GED
Darolia, Rajeev; Mueser, Peter R.; Cronin, Jacob - 2020
Educational and skill-building programs are commonplace in prisons and have been the focus of recent prominent policy initiatives. These educational programs are expected to increase prisoners' post-release employability, with the hope that these lead to both private and public benefits. One of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270212
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The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322528
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Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the … graduates of nonselective institutions earn post-baccalaureate degrees from elite institutions, and even when they do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141244