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Community College Enrollment, College Major, and the Gender Wage Gap
Leigh, Duane E.; Gill, Andrew M. - 2001
The literature on the narrowing of the gender wage gap during the 1980s considers, among other factors, the closing of the male-female differential in post-secondary education. This paper looks specifically at the role played by the dramatic relative increase in women's enrollment in two-year...
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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Overeducation and employment mismatch : wage penalties for college degrees in business
Li, Ishuan; Malvin, Mathew; Simonson, Robert - In: Journal of education for business 90 (2015) 3, pp. 119-125
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Should English majors take computer science courses? : labor market benefits of the occupational specificity of major and nonmajor college credits
Light, Audrey; Schreiner Wertz, Sydney - In: Economics of education review 88 (2022), pp. 1-16
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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 British Skills and Employment Survey series, we analyse...
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University selectivity, initial job quality, and longer-run salary
Weinstein, Russell - 2017
Using Baccalaureate and Beyond data, I study whether university quality, both absolute and relative to other universities in the region, affects earnings one and ten years after graduation, controlling for the individual's SAT score. One year after graduation, high SAT score students earn 12%...
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The Wage Premium on Higher Education : Universities and Colleges
Achdut, Leah; Gutman, Elad; Lipiner, Idan; Maayan, Inbal; … - 2022
wages over the years. The databases drew from administrative files and population censuses. In order to distinguish between … wages among graduates of private colleges were about 6–7 percent higher. The wage gaps remained stable even after breaking … wages of graduates of public colleges. We also conducted estimations among those with just a Bachelor’s degree. The OLS …
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The effect of undergraduate major choices on the earnings of sub-Saharan African immigrant and native-born college graduates
Seeborg, Michael C.; Ikpebe, Ene - In: The American economist : journal of the International … 66 (2021) 2, pp. 222-240
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Does It pay to graduate from an "elite" university in Australia?
Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
In Australia, the so-called Group of Eight (Go8) universities have lower student-to-staff ratios, better qualified staff, superior research outcomes, and generally better placement in university rankings compared to non-Go8 universities. They are also typically the most competitive universities...
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