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Student employment : advantage or handicap for academic achievement?
Sprietsma, Maresa - 2015
. There is significant selection of students into different types of student employment. …We estimate the effects of student employment on academic performance. Performance is measured by grades achieved one … and a half years after entering university. We use the amount of financial aid students receive after application as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409555
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Employer attitudes and the hiring of immigrants and international students : evidence from a survey of employers in Canada
Fang, Tony; Xiao, Na; Zhu, Jane; Hartley, John - 2022
What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are … harder working than local workers are more likely to report hiring or intending to hire newcomers and international students … Although most employers report positive attitudes towards newcomers and international students, employers who report …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184658
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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Comparing Outcomes : The Relative Job-Market Performance of Former International Students
Skuterud, Mikal - 2018
Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of post-secondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. We compare the labour-market performance of former international students (FISs) who studied at Canadian institutions … the quality and supply of international students has not kept pace with the growth in demand. As Canada moves to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911556
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The relative labour market performance of former international students : evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey
Chen, Zong Jia; Skuterud, Mikal - 2017
Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064014
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The relative labour market performance of former international students : evidence from the Canadian national graduates survey
Chen, Zong Jia; Skuterud, Mikal - 2017
Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641505
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Literacy, Numeracy, Technology Skill and Labour Market Outcomes among Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Hu, Min - 2017
, we find negative earnings differentials, lower employment rates and higher unemployment for Indigenous populations and … employment outcomes, while we find evidence that Métis people have worse employment outcomes and negative earnings differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945897
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Post-Secondary Education in Canada : Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap between College and University Graduates?
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2007
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776921
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Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2006
During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779027
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Overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China
Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi; Nan, Jiarui - 2024
Exploiting rich nationally representative longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies this paper explores the relationship between overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China. We find consistent evidence, across multiple measures of overeducation, of wage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584357