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Racial Discrimination in English Professional Football : Evidence from an Empirical Analysis of Players' Career Progression
Goddard, John; Wilson, John O. S. - 2008
A novel test for racial discrimination in English professional football is presented, based on an assessment of the effect of race on footballers' labour market transition probabilities. Career progression is observed over five-year intervals within the period 1986-2001. Transition probabilities...
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Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?
Dickson, Matthew - 2013
We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity of parental education is addressed by exploiting the exogenous shift in education levels induced by the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) from age 15 to 16 in...
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Like mother, like child? : the rise of women's intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States
Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023
We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...
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Birth order and social outcomes, England, 1680-2024
Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - 2024
Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life chances? An extensive genealogy of 428,280 English people 1680-2024, with substantial sets of complete families, suggests that birth order had little effect on social outcomes...
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Labour market mismatch among UK graduates: an analysis using REFLEX data
McGuinness, Seamus; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009
There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and … cast light on these issues, based on data for UK graduates. REFLEX examines the labour market status of graduates five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268963
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Labour market mismatch among UK graduates: An analysis using REFLEX data
McGuinness, Seamus; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009
There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and … cast light on these issues, based on data for UK graduates. REFLEX examines the labour market status of graduates five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277575
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Is there a role for higher education institutions in improving the quality of first employment?
McGuinness, Séamus; Whelan, Adele; Bergin, Adele - 2016
graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study …
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The changing graduate labour market : analysis using a new indicator of graduate jobs
Green, Francis; Henseke, Golo - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 14, pp. 1-25
available in the Additional file 1. We find that the massive influx of graduates into the labour force has been absorbed with no … overeducated graduates increased by 11 log points. Using the British Household Panel Study, we find that the persistence of … overeducation status did not change but for non-employed male graduates moving into employment, the chances of entering a graduate …
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Caught in the cycle : economic conditions at enrollment and labor market outcomes of college graduates
Bičáková, Alena; Cortes, Guido Matias; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020
We find robust evidence that cohorts of graduates who enter college during worse economic times earn higher average …
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Does It pay to graduate from an "elite" university in Australia?
Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
, mainly focusing on the United States, has found that graduates of prestigious and selective colleges enjoy a wage premium … over graduates of other institutions when they enter the labour market. In this paper, we use data from the Graduate …
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