This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia … benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics … work experience. In contrast, foreign PhD graduates with a non-English speaking background experience worse labour market …

foreign PhD graduates staying on in Australia as skilled migrants. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as … benefiting from positive employer 'discrimination' (a wage premium unrelated to observed characteristics such as gender, age, and … previous work experience). The premium is field-specific and applies to graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and …

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. …

We study how signaling skills that are specific to college majors affect labor market outcomes of college graduates. We … performers on a mandatory nationwide exam in Colombia. The award allows students to signal their high level of specific skills … when searching for a j ob. These students earn 7 to 12 percent more than otherwise identical students lacking the signal …

and employment participation. Empirical evidence favors the "efficiency" over the "discrimination" channels of wage …

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