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shows institutions' ability to produce graduates as measured against their basic academic teaching efficiency. The new …
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Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the...
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proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana …
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Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159243
, mainly focusing on the United States, has found that graduates of prestigious and selective colleges enjoy a wage premium … over graduates of other institutions when they enter the labour market. In this paper, we use data from the Graduate … Australian labour market and to determine the extent to which it is due merely to the recruitment of better students. We find …
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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to general high school (GHS) education in Turkey using census data. To address non-random selection into high school types, we collect construction dates of the VHSs at the...
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confirm the paramount influence of the student’s track record and talent. The results, however, also show that geographical …
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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149211
We study one potential source of urban agglomeration economies: better job matching. Focusing on college graduates, we … college graduates find better jobs by increasing both the likelihood and quality of a match. We then assess the extent to … wage premium. While we find that college graduates with better job matches do indeed earn higher wages on average, the …
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