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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 undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
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The effects of advanced degrees on the wage rates, hours, earnings and job satisfaction of women and men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - 2022
This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …
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The gender gap in top jobs : the role of overconfidence
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Shure, Nikki - 2022
There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …
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The gender gap in top jobs - the role of overconfidence
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Shure, Nikki - 2022
There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …
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Same degree but different outcomes : an analysis of labour market outcomes for native and international PhD students in Australia
Tani, Massimiliano - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-18
benefiting from positive employer 'discrimination' (a wage premium unrelated to observed characteristics such as gender, age, and …
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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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Schooling Investment, Mismatch, and Wage Inequality
Shephard, Andrew - 2019
This paper examines how policies, aimed at increasing the supply of education in the economy, affect the matching between workers and firms, and the wages of various skill groups. We build an equilibrium model where workers endogenously invest in education, while firms direct their technology...
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