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Returns to university education : evidence from a Dutch institutional reform
Webbink, Herman Dinand - In: Economica 74 (2007), pp. 113-134
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Returns to University Education : Evidence from a Dutch Institutional Reform
Webbink, H. Dinand - 2007
In 1982 the duration of university education in the Netherlands was reduced from five to four years. This institutional … reform is here used to estimate the causal effect of one year of university education on wages. I find that the fifth year of … university education increased wages by 7%-9%. This differential is found by comparing wages of cohorts of graduates enrolling …
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Does a Bachelor's degree pay off? : labor market outcomes of academic versus vocational education after Bologna
Neugebauer, Martin; Weiss, Felix - 2017
Academic education is generally rewarded by employers, but what happens to graduates if they are trained for two years less and have to compete with vocationally trained labor market entrants in a similar field of study? Focusing on Germany, we analyze labor market entries of individuals...
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Do Reforms Aimed at Reducing Time to Graduation Work? Evidence from the Italian Higher Education System
Malacrino, Davide; Nocito, Samuel; Saggio, Raffaele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper examines the impact of a reform aimed at expediting graduation times in Italian universities by reducing the number of exams students must pass to obtain a fixed number of credits. Using event-study estimates that leverage the reform's staggered implementation, we find that this...
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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 undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
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Zero returns to higher education: evidence from a natural experiment
Avdeev, Stanislav - 2020
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Does it pay to study abroad? : evidence from Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2017
Purpose: This paper tries to identify the impact of international student mobility on the first wages of tertiary …
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Economic crises and returns to university education in middle-income countries : stylized facts and COVID-19 projections
Fasih, Tazeen; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Shafiq, M. Najeeb - 2020
This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education) has increased during economic crises....
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In support of V. Afanasyeva’s open letter to Russian Minister of Education O.Y. Vasilieva
Babaev, Bronislav D. - In: Problems of economic transition 63 (2022) 4/6, pp. 181-188
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Overeducation and employment mismatch : wage penalties for college degrees in business
Li, Ishuan; Malvin, Mathew; Simonson, Robert - In: Journal of education for business 90 (2015) 3, pp. 119-125
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