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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023
We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by 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...
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Salary and the gender salary gap in the academic profession
Ward, Melanie - 1999
The academic profession is an occupation in which pay has fallen dramatically, resulting in the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to examine both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination. This paper considers salary determination and the gender salary gap in the academic labour...
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Salary and the gender salary gap in the academic profession
Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 1999
The academic profession is an occupation in which pay has fallen dramatically, resulting in the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to examine both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination. This paper considers salary determination and the gender salary gap in the academic labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313947
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...
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The labour market for native and international PhD students: similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers
Tani, Massimiliano - 2020
benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics …
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The labour market for native and international PhD students : similarities, differences, and the role of (university) employers
Tani, Massimiliano - 2020
benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252391
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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
This paper examines differentiation in the recent evolving graduate labour market in Britain. Using a novel … statistically derived indicator of graduate jobs, based on job skill requirements in three-digit occupations obtained from the … overeducation status did not change but for non-employed male graduates moving into employment, the chances of entering a graduate …
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Earning to Give : Occupational Choice for Effective Altruists
Morduch, Jonathan - 2018
Effective altruists wish to do good while optimizing the social performance they deliver. We apply this principle to the labor market. We determine the optimal occupational choice of a socially motivated worker who has two mutually exclusive options: a job with a for-profit firm and a lower-paid...
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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes
Simon, Lisa - 2019
This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using microeconometric methods. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. Chapter 2 uses a randomised field experiment among German human resource managers to evaluate which skill signals such as...
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Catching up is hard to do : undergraduate prestige, elite graduate programs, and the earnings premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly … post-baccalaureate degrees including business, law, medicine, and doctoral. Among those who earn a graduate degree from an … elite institution, the present value of the earnings advantage to having both an undergraduate and a graduate degree from an …
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