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Stability of college rankings : a study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data

Gartell, Marie - 2009

The ranking of colleges varies both across methods and model specifications. Still, earnings equations tend to be consistent with regard to which colleges that on average are found in the top and bottom half of the earnings distribution. Moreover, there are no systematic differences in the...

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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates

Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023

We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by 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...

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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?

Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...

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Mapping of the PhDs in the private sector : a literature review

Stén, Susanna (contributor) - 2008

research focuses primarily on PhDs in the fields of science and engineering. It provides no synoptic picture of the employment …

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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 … overeducation status did not change but for non-employed male graduates moving into employment, the chances of entering a graduate …

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Selecting or rewarding tachers? : international evidence from primary schools

Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Garrouste, Christelle; … - 2019

Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...

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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

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Earning to Give : Occupational Choice for Effective Altruists

Morduch, Jonathan - 2018

Effective altruists wish to do good while optimizing the social performance they deliver. We apply this principle to the labor market. We determine the optimal occupational choice of a socially motivated worker who has two mutually exclusive options: a job with a for-profit firm and a lower-paid...

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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 … post-baccalaureate degrees including business, law, medicine, and doctoral. Among those who earn a graduate degree from an … elite institution, the present value of the earnings advantage to having both an undergraduate and a graduate degree from an …

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Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties : Evidence from the Biomedical PhD Labor Market

Diethorn, Holden A.; Marschke, Gerald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

training in industry, and the penalty overall. Task mismatch as a cost of pursuing risky careers in science and in other fields …

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