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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
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Weighting recent performance to improve college and labor market outcomes
Bulman, George - In: Journal of public economics 146 (2017), pp. 97-108
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Labor market returns to college education with vocational qualifications
Rzepka, Sylvi - 2016
Deutschland auszahlt, mit einer beruflichen Qualifikation ein Studium aufzunehmen im Vergleich zu Personen, die ihre … ausbildungsbasierte Laufbahn fortsetzen. Ich schätze hierfür die Auswirkungen einer Immatrikulation an einer Hochschule auf die berufliche …, die eine ausbildungsbasierte Laufbahn einschlagen. Zudem arbeiten beruflich Qualifizierte nach dem Studium in …
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The effects of graduating from high school in a recession : college investments, skill formation, and labor-market outcomes
Hampf, Franziska; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2020
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...
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Mapping the (mis)match of university degrees in the graduate labor market
Salas-Velasco, Manuel - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23
This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the topic of horizontal education-job mismatch in the labor market for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in a particular field, work in another field at their...
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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
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Chapter 9. The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight-hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
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Does immigration crowd natives into or out of higher education?
Jackson, Osborne - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the college enrollment of U.S. natives. Many studies have focused on the effect of increased demand for schooling by immigrants on the enrollment of natives. However, changes in immigrant labor supply may also affect native enrollment by...
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The boom in university graduates and the risk of underemployment : better information on university quality may reduce underemployment and overeducation in developing countries
Yamada, Gustavo - 2015
As the number of secondary school graduates rises, many developing countries expand the supply of public and private universities or face pressure to do so. However, several factors point to the need for caution, including weak job markets, low-quality university programs, and job-education...
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College majors and skills: evidence from the universe of online job ads
Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad; Martin, Shawn; … - 2021
We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U.S. online job ads. Social and organizational skills are general in that they are sought by employers of almost all college majors, whereas other skills are more specialized. In turn,...
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