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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149211
Existing studies on the returns to college selectivity have mixed results, mainly due to the difficulty of controlling for selection into more-selective colleges based on unobserved ability. Moreover, researchers have not considered graduate degree attainment in the analysis of labour market...
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for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in … the first nationally representative survey of labor insertion of recent university graduates in Spain. By estimating a … find a higher likelihood of horizontal mismatch among graduates of Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Pharmacy, and Languages …
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success in the context of German law graduates. Using a difference-in-differences research design combined with entropy … balancing, we find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings …
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weekly earnings. Utilizing the fact that colleges dismiss low-performing students based on exact GPA cutoffs, we use a … regression discontinuity design to estimate the earnings impacts of college. Dismissed students are permitted to apply for … readmission, but since relatively few do so, these students end up completing fewer years of school and are approximately 10 …
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While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students … college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However …, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic …
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There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the …
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Evidence shows that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required (overeducation), and …
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. Die räumliche Mobilität der Absolventen ist daher für regionalpolitische Entscheidungsträger von erheblicher Relevanz … hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte anzuziehen. Wir verwenden Verweildaueranalysen, um die Migration von Absolventen nach dem Verlassen der … Absolventen aus der Hochschulregion - in räumlicher wie in zeitlicher Hinsicht. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung zeigen, dass die …
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