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Breadth of University Curriculum and Labor Market Outcomes
Seah, Kelvin - 2020
, more specialized, curriculum, while offering others more flexibility to read a broader curriculum. Using a difference …-and-after the curriculum revision, to changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate cohorts from the latter group of faculties …. We do not find evidence that curriculum breadth matters for these labor market outcomes …
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Breadth of university curriculum and labor market outcomes
Seah, Kelvin; Pan, Jessica; Poh Lin Tan - 2020
, curriculum. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we compare changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate cohorts from … the affected faculty, before-and-after the curriculum revision, to changes in the labor market outcomes of graduate … cohorts from the other faculties. We do not find evidence that curriculum breadth matters for these labor market outcomes …
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Are higher education institutions responsive to changes in the labor market?
Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Gonzales, Kathrina G.; Cortes, Sol … - 2016
Higher education is a key driver of the economic growth of countries. Any country hopes that its universities, including state colleges and universities (SUCs) and private higher education institutions (PHEIs), produce the manpower needed to propel the country into high, sustained, and equitable...
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Discrimination in the Credential Society : An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market
Gaddis, S. Michael - 2015
Racial inequality in economic outcomes, particularly among the college educated, persists throughout US society. Scholars debate whether this inequality stems from racial differences in human capital (e.g., college selectivity, GPA, college major) or employer discrimination against black job...
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Education expansion, college choice and labour market success
Braccioli, Federica; Ghinetti, Paolo; Moriconi, Simone; … - 2022
We apply the unordered monotonicity setting of Heckman and Pinto (2018) to estimate the distribution of response types and the counterfactual outcomes associated with the choice of a STEM or non-STEM college. Instrumental variation is induced by the proximity to universities offering STEM and/or...
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A képzési terület és a felsőoktatási intézmény hatása a fiatal diplomások munkaerő-piaci sikerességére a 2000-es évek végén
Varga, Júlia - 2010
The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method is used to reveal the effect of the field of study,...
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Quality of higher education and the labor market in developing countries : evidence from an education reform in Senegal
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Larouche, Alexandre; Trandafir, … - 2015
While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We exploit the quasi-experiment provided by a large-scale education reform launched in Senegal in 2000 to investigate how...
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Heterogeneous returns to U.S. college selectivity and the value of graduate degree attainment
Seki, Mai - 2013
Existing studies on the returns to college selectivity have mixed results, mainly due to the difficulty of controlling for selection into more-selective colleges based on unobserved ability. Moreover, researchers have not considered graduate degree attainment in the analysis of labour market...
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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
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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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