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Science education and labor market outcomes in a developing economy
Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; … - In: Economic inquiry 60 (2022) 2, pp. 741-763
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The effect of Georgia’s HOPE scholarship on college major : a focus on STEM
Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-29
There is growing concern that the U.S. is producing too few college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and … mathematics (STEM) fields, and there is a desire to understand how various policies affect college major decisions. This paper … Scholarship has affected students' college major decisions, with a focus on STEM. We find that HOPE reduced the likelihood of …
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Bachelor-Studierende mit Nebenjobs haben kaum schlechtere Noten, brauchen für ihr Studium aber etwas länger
Staneva, Mila - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 85 (2018) 20, pp. 433-442
Viele Bachelor-Studierende in Deutschland sind neben ihrem Studium erwerbstätig. Sie investieren dabei nicht unerheblich viel Zeit in ihren Nebenjob: Gemessen an der Regelstudienzeit beträgt das Arbeitsvolumen im Durchschnitt rund 20 Prozent. Bei einer durchgehenden Erwerbstätigkeit während...
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Decline in values of degrees and recent evolution of wage inequality : evidence from Chile
Murakami, Yoshimichi; Nomura, Tomokazu - In: Estudios de economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 55-132
Using data from nationally and regionally representative household surveys, we analyze the association between the changes in coefficients of dummy variables for higher education degrees in the wage equation and evolution of wage inequality in Chile from 2013-2017. Employing a decomposition...
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Place of study, field of study and labour-market region : what matters for wage differences among higher-education graduates?
Kopecny, Silvia; Hillmert, Steffen - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21
This paper focuses on the structure and extent of wage differences among graduates of different higher-education institutions in Germany. We ask how large these differences are and how they relate to fields of study and regional labour markets. The results from our application of...
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The evolution of educational wage differentials for women and men in Germany, from 1996 to 2019
Ordemann, Jessica; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12
This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany. We distinguish between degrees from academic universities, degrees from universities of applied sciences, and the master craftsman\craftswoman certificate. The educational reference...
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Education and employment : evidence from selected OECD countries
Şerifoğlu, Müzeyyen Merve - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 32 (2023) 5, pp. 569-588
The objective of the paper is to investigate the relationship between education and employment level in 27 member countries of OECD over the period 1998-2019. To achieve this, the paper first analyses the effect of the number of graduates from upper secondary, post-secondary and tertiary...
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STEM on demand : can current state of higher education infrastructure meet expectations?
Jahic, Hatidza; Pilav-Velic, Amila - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 66 (2020) 3, pp. 48-55
current state of higher education and the demand for research, innovation and a robust STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering … research that will lead to further collaborations and innovations in STEM. Universities are primarily seen as a source of …
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Measuring a university-community collaboration using social network analysis
Woolcott, Geoff; Chamberlain, Dan - In: International journal of learning and change : IJLC 11 (2019) 1, pp. 18-38
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy? : basic skills in literacy and numeracy are essential for success in the labor market
Vignoles, Anna - 2016
Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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