Showing 1 - 10 of 149,094
proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana …We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly …') do not explain gender differences. Our findings suggest early interventions may reduce gender differences in labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943750
degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334324
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608447
administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228165
This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likelihood 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964489
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607468
-selection into taking the SAT. Our findings imply large effects of the choice of university admission criterion on admitted students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006600
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/10012110312
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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544166