University autonomy and funding is an important aspect in university-level education due to its impact on graduates …

In this study, we examine the incidence and direct consequences of job mismatch for German graduates. Beyond measuring … competences. The results indicate that a substantial share of graduates underutilizes own skills in the job. The rate of … investigate to what extent jobs of matched graduates differ from jobs held by mismatched graduates. Jobs of the latter are found …

of eastern and western German PhD graduates who completed their dissertations between 1995 and 2010. We estimate the … PhD graduates and their place of birth collected from data on PhD dissertations in Germany with data from administrative … of eastern and western German PhD graduates. Our findings show that labor market success is affected neither by being …

employability by providing graduates with the skills and experience employers look for. These programs also increase the probability … that graduates will work abroad, and so may especially benefit students willing to pursue an international career. However …