foreign PhD graduates staying on in Australia as skilled migrants. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as … benefiting from positive employer 'discrimination' (a wage premium unrelated to observed characteristics such as gender, age, and … previous work experience). The premium is field-specific and applies to graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and …

available in the Additional file 1. We find that the massive influx of graduates into the labour force has been absorbed with no … overeducated graduates increased by 11 log points. Using the British Household Panel Study, we find that the persistence of … overeducation status did not change but for non-employed male graduates moving into employment, the chances of entering a graduate …

There is evidence that many college graduates are employed in jobs for which a degree is not required, and in which the …

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 …

This paper deals with the effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of higher education graduates in the … contextual variables: the share of graduates in the population and the unemployment rate of graduates. The paper is based on … assumptions derived from assignment theory. The authors use data of graduates' self-evaluation collected in national and …

Bavarian university graduates. The search and matching theories were used to develop hypotheses which were then tested against …