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Just the facts, ma'am: Postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the US
Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop, Erin - 2013
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational...
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Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market
Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2013
another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home … abroad, or return home to utilize the internationally acquired knowledge in the domestic labour market. In this paper we use …
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Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers
Huttunen, Kristiina; Riukula, Krista - 2019
We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market....
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Is It Worth It? Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes for the Disadvantaged
Backes, Benjamin; Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop Velez, Erin - 2014
In this paper we examine a range of postsecondary education and labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on minorities and/or disadvantaged workers. We use administrative data from the state of Florida, where postsecondary student records have been linked to UI earnings data and also to...
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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden
Forsberg, Erika; Khan, Akib; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2024
Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across countries, less is known about heterogeneities across...
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Heterogeneity in graduate earnings by socio-economic background
Crawford, Claire; Vignoles, Anna - 2014
Education is often regarded as a route to social mobility. For this to be the case, however, the link between family background and adult outcomes must be broken (or at least reduced) once we take account of an individual's education history. This paper focuses on individuals who have completed...
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Is the return to education the same for everybody?
Webber, Douglas - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...
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Medical innovation, education, and labor market outcomes of cancer patients
Jeon, Sung-hee; Pohl, Vincent - 2019
. We estimate the effect of medical innovation on cancer patients' labor market outcomes employing tax return and cancer … registry data from Canada and measuring medical innovation by using the number of approved drugs and a quality-adjusted patent … innovation are limited to cancer patients with postsecondary education, raising concerns about unequal access to improved …
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A Bridge to Graduation: Post-secondary Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail High School Exit Exams
Lincove, Jane Arnold; Mata, Catherine; Cortes, Kalena E. - 2022
with a set of basic skills and knowledge. Evidence suggests that a common perverse effect of exit exams is an increase in …
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Beyond degrees: Longer term outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise
Hershbein, Brad; McMullen, Isabel; Pittelko, Brian; … - 2021
We estimate the effects on workforce and location outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise, a generous, place-based college scholarship. Drawing upon administrative unemployment insurance wage records merged with individual-level education data, we identify Promise effects by comparing eligible to...
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