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Lifecycle impact of alternative higher education finance systems in Ireland

Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011

With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the past number of years. However, no study has been...

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Subject choice and earnings of UK graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2011

Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper … investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean … wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most …

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Is graduate under-employment persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2011

This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …

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Public Funding and Enrolment into Higher Education in Europe

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Wirz, Aniela - 2002

In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel for European countries and apply instrumental variables techniques to find that public funding for schooling – regardless at what level – does increase college enrolment...

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Student loans repayment and recovery: international comparisons

Shen, Hua; Ziderman, Adrian - 2008

Student loans schemes are in operation in more than seventy countries around the world. Most loans schemes benefit from sizeable built-in government subsidies and, in addition, are subject to repayment default and administrative costs that are not passed on to student borrowers. We probe two...

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The returns to four-year college for academically marginal students

Zimmerman, Seth - 2011

I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In addition, I develop a theoretical model of college...

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Gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market

Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. - 2012

is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male … graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap. …

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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

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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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Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Hemelt, Steven W.; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2008

In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...

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