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The returns to cognitive abilities and personality traits in Germany

Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 17 (2010) 3, pp. 535-546

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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state dependence

Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...

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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of age and gender

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 1, pp. 1-37

We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian linked panel data. Findings highlight that educational credentials have a stronger impact on productivity than on wage costs. Firms’ profitability is found to rise when lower...

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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

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 …

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Disability and labor market outcomes : disability is associated with labor market disadvantage : recent evidence points to a causal relationship

Jones, Melanie - 2016

In Europe, about one in eight people of working age report having a disability; that is, the presence of a long-term limiting health condition. Despite the introduction of a range of legislative and policy initiatives designed to eliminate discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry...

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Working while enrolled in a university: does it pay?

Häkkinen, Iida - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 13 (2006) 2, pp. 167-189

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The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany

Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15

This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native …

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College major peer effects and attrition from the sciences

Luppino, Marc; Sander, Richard - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-23

This paper examines how peer quality within distinct college majors affects graduation rates and major persistence. To mitigate the selection problem, we control for school-specific fixed effects, as well as very flexible application-admissions pattern fixed effects. Non-science peer quality...

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Enrolling at university and the social influence of peers

Pistolesi, Nicolas - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-26

This article studies peer effects on the decision to enroll at university. To determine the social influence of peers … applicants to a single university over seven consecutive cohorts. We exploit idiosyncratic variations in the proportion of peers … effect on the individual decision to attend university and observe stronger peer effects among groups of students of similar …

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Providing infrastructure when it matters : university proximity at teenage years and educational attainment

Ben Atta, Oussama; Agwu, George Abuchi - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 104 (2025) 2, pp. 1-19

Measurement Survey (LSMS) to spatial distance to university measured by pairing residential and university campuses geographical … coordinates. To identify the long-run effect of the distance to university, we exploit the theory of residential sorting to … instrument residential proximity to university. Specifically, we instrument distance to university drawing on variations in …

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