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and employment participation. Empirical evidence favors the "efficiency" over the "discrimination" channels of wage …
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There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the …
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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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for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in … the first nationally representative survey of labor insertion of recent university graduates in Spain. By estimating a … find a higher likelihood of horizontal mismatch among graduates of Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Pharmacy, and Languages …
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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 …
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Using data on German university graduates, this paper analyzes wage differentials by field of study at labor market … entry and five to six years later. At both points in time, graduates from Arts and Humanities have lower average monthly … largely by different job and firm characteristics of graduates rather than individual or study-related characteristics. We …
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, where several cohorts of West Point cadets were unexpectedly graduated early. These early graduates never saw combat in the …
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success in the context of German law graduates. Using a difference-in-differences research design combined with entropy … balancing, we find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings …
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …
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