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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education

Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016

socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education. …

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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education

Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016

socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521174

The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …

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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia

Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...

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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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Mapping the (mis)match of university degrees in the graduate labor market

Salas-Velasco, Manuel - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the topic of horizontal education-job mismatch in the labor market for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in a particular field, work in another field at their...

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Intergenerational educational mobility - the role of non-cognitive skills

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2021

While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential 'first in family' or first-generation students make it to university and others do not. This paper looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the...

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Intergenerational educational mobility : the role of noncognitive skills

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2021

While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential ‘first in family’ or firstgeneration students make it to university and others do not. This paper looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the...

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The return to college, marriage, and intergenerational mobility

Gould, Eric D. - 2023

This paper examines the idea that the increasing return to college is reducing intergenerational mobility by differentially impacting the investments in children by parents across education groups. A larger return to college will create stronger incentives to invest in children by parents with...

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Gender differences in graduate degree choices

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2024

While gender differences in the decision of what to study at undergraduate level are much studied, there is relatively … Ireland to study these choices. We find systematic and substantial differences by gender in choice of graduate field, even … health programmes. When we explore the effect of these choices on early career gender gaps in earnings, we find that they …

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