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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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This paper investigates the differences in early occupational earnings of UK male graduates by degree subject during …
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This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …
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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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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 study uses data from the Follow-up of Graduates Survey - Class of 2000, to look at the determinants of education …-job match among Canadian university graduates. From a public policy perspective, the question of education-job match is relevant …-job match. In addition, the level of education (i.e. graduates with a postgraduate degree vs. a bachelor degree), as well as …
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a manner that is inversely related to educational level. Yet, the wages of university graduates are reduced more by past … overskilling, than for any other education level. A possible reason for this wage effect is that graduates tend to be in better …
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This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …
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