In Australia, the so-called Group of Eight (Go8) universities have lower student-to-staff ratios, better qualified …, 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 …

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 …

a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students … who can signal their high level of specific skills earn seven to ten percent more than identical students lacking such a …

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 …

We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS … scores of students admitted to these courses. Unlike earlier UK studies, we are able to consider the effect of differences in … relative wage outcomes across institutions*subjects is due to the quality of students that HEIs select. …

analysis focuses on Italian graduates and refers to the cohort that graduated in 2007 using data from the AlmaLaurea survey on … graduates' career paths. A new measure of overeducation is introduced and it is jointly examined along with other pre …

Survey data for a large sample of recent graduates from 37 German universities are used to study labor market outcomes …

There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the …

We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates … China decreases unemployment rates, especially among males and high school graduates. However, the policy also decreases …