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International Student Exchange and Academic Performance

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Joosten, Wytse; Toivanen, Otto - 2021

significantly. Weanalyze how international student exchange affects students’ academic human capital. Usingdetailed student … findthat, on average, exchange students lose 7%in terms of grades relative to their non-mobile peers, but less so in Erasmus …-facilitated exchange.Since students’ academic performance is an important factor in companies’ hiring decisions, participation in …

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Student Employment : Advantage or Handicap for Academic Achievement?

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2018

and a half years after entering university. We use the amount of financial aid students receive after application as a …. There is significant selection of students into different types of student employment …

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Earnings of University Dropouts Across Europe

Berlingieri, Francesco; Bolz, Theresa - 2021

This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less...

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Decentralizing University Admission - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Horstschräer, Julia - 2012

experiment. Is the centralized or decentralized procedure better suited to match prospective students to universities? The … analysis uses administrative data on all students within Germany and complements the prominent theoretical literature on …

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Fiscal and Individual Rates of Return to University Education with and without Graduation

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2020

Based on a detailed model of the German tax-benefit system, this paper simulates private and fiscal returns to education for college graduates and college dropouts. Completing a five-year college degree is found to be associated with an internal rate of return (IRR) of 14.2% for gross earnings,...

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Returns to Higher Education and Dropouts : A Double Machine Learning Approach

McNamara, Sarah - 2021

This paper provides estimates of the short-term individual returns to Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom, focusing on the effects of attending HE on the labour market outcomes for dropouts. Results show differential labour market outcomes for dropouts vs. individuals who have never...

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Separating Wheat and Chaff : Age-Specific Staffing Strategies and Innovative Performance at the Firm Level

Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011

Adopting a dynamic perspective, this paper investigates age-related staffing patterns in German establishments and their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce rejuvenation - from the inflow of younger or from outflows of older...

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Poaching and Firm-Sponsored Training : First Clean Evidence

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013

A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employeesm ay hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...

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Coaching Disadvantaged Young People : Evidence from Firm Level Data

Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2014

In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of smaller birth cohorts and an increasing proportion of school leavers aiming for higher education. This paper investigates whether a programme that supports firms to train...

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The Workforce Composition of Young Firms and Product Innovation - Complementarities in the Skills of Founders and Their Early Employees

Mueller, Bettina - 2018

We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...

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