In this study, the effects of several educational and non-educational indicators of (aspects of) competence on short-term labour market outcomes for university graduates are estimated. The research question we address is: To what extent do indications of specific and generic competence during...

This article explores the total (measured and unmeasured) effect of education on different socio-economic outcomes. The analysis shows that the usual regression models typically underestimate the effects of education. The effects of education are decomposed into three sources of variation:...

In mei 2003 heeft Hogeschool INHOLLAND het Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA) van de Universiteit Maastricht opdracht verleend een instrument te ontwikkelen waarmee de mening van het werkveld over de kwaliteit van haar opleidingen in kaart kan worden gebracht. Het instrument is...

In this study, we explore the role of education in explaining the labour market outcomes for a sample of graduates in medicine. More specifically, the following research question is answered: To what extent are labour market outcomes of physicians explained by the skills acquired in education,...