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Working while enrolled in a university: Does it pay?
Häkkinen, Iida - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004
Working while studying at university increases the time-to-degree and may interfere with learning, but the acquired … university students' employment decisions affect their labor market success after the graduation. The study is based on an … individual panel data set of Finnish university students. The data set covers the years 1987-1998, which was a period of …
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It pays to study for the right job : exploring the causes and consequences of education-occupation job mismatch
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Saavedra Caballero, Fabiola - 2019
With the rapid increase in educational attainment, technological change, and greater job specialization, decisions regarding human capital investment are no longer exclusively about the quantity of education, but rather the type of education to obtain. The skills and knowledge acquired in...
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The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education
Ehrmantraut, Laura - 2020
scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293120
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293817
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293840
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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Measuring the Consumption Value of Higher Education
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2009
This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...
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The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2021
scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315250
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The Consumption Value of Higher Education
Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2021
The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual’s educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...
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