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Graduate employment in the UK: an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model

Grazier, Suzanne; O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2008

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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Labour market mismatch among UK graduates: an analysis using REFLEX data

McGuinness, Seamus; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

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 GED

Heckman, James Joseph; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, … - 2010

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …

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Differences in Early Occupational Earnings of UK Male Graduates by Degree Subject: Evidence from the 1980-1993 USR

Bratti, Massimiliano; Mancini, Luca - 2003

This paper investigates the differences in early occupational earnings of UK male graduates by degree subject during …

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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality

Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001

Thurow?s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...

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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...

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Educational Mismatch and Wages in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K. - 1999

This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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Estimating returns to education when the IV sample is selective

Wang, Le - 2012

The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and parental education as instrument variables (IV). However, due to usual survey designs, both IVs are available only for the individuals whose spouse or parents are present in the same household. The IV...

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