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Fiscal and individual rates of return to university education with and without graduation

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Stichnoth, Holger - 2020

education for college graduates and college dropouts. Completing a five-year college degree is found to be associated with an …

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Returns to higher education and dropouts: A double machine learning approach

McNamara, Sarah - 2020

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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Does it pay to move? Returns to regional mobility at the start of the career for tertiary education graduates

Maier, Michael F.; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2016

Decisions taken at the start of one's career have long-term consequences and one important decision graduates have to …

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011

This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...

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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?

Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2014

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …

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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?

Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...

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Wages in the East German transition process: facts and explanations

Franz, Wolfgang; Steiner, Viktor - 1999

We analyze wage developments in the East German transition process both at the macro and at the microeconomic level. At the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages, describe the development of various wage measures, labor...

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the...

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Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2002

This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees? entire...

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