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Post-Secondary Education in Canada : Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap between College and University Graduates?

Caponi, Vincenzo - 2007

Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into...

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Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2006

During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure...

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Overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China

Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi; Nan, Jiarui - 2024

Exploiting rich nationally representative longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies this paper explores the relationship between overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China. We find consistent evidence, across multiple measures of overeducation, of wage and...

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Worsening Employment Outcomes for Pacific Technical Graduate Job-seekers

Curtain, Richard; Howes, Stephen - 2021

. Analysis of graduate tracer surveys shows that employment outcomes for APTC graduates looking for a job (job-seekers) have … show worsening outcomes over time. Employment outcomes have worsened in part because APTC has changed the composition of … and hospitality qualifications it has offered since inception. There are worse employment outcomes for female APTC job …

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Job mismatches and labour market outcomes

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2009

Interpretation of the phenomenon of graduate overeducation remains problematical. In an attempt to resolve at least some of the issues this paper makes use of the panel element of the HILDA survey, distinguishing between four possible combinations of education/skills mismatch. For men we find a...

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Job mismatches and labour market outcomes : panel evidence on australian university graduates

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2010

The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...

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Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes : Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates

Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2010

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Mismatch in the graduate labour market among immigrants and second-generation ethnic minority groups

Byrne, Delma; McGuinness, Séamus - 2009

This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrant and ethnic minority graduates from UK universities. The paper empirically demonstrates that immigrant and second-generation ethnic minority...

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Does it pay to move? : returns to regional mobility at the start of the career for tertiary education graduates

Maier, Michael F.; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2016

Decisions taken at the start of one’s career have long-term consequences and one important decision graduates have to make is whether to be regionally mobile when looking for the first job. We investigate whether being regionally mobile for the first job following graduation rather than to...

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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014

This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...

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