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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...
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We study one potential source of urban agglomeration economies: better job matching. Focusing on college graduates, we … college graduates find better jobs by increasing both the likelihood and quality of a match. We then assess the extent to … wage premium. While we find that college graduates with better job matches do indeed earn higher wages on average, the …
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likely to study other Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities than students whose parents are university graduates. We also find … the first large scale, quantitative evidence on FiF graduates in England using a nationally representative survey linked … two-thirds of all university graduates. Comparing individuals with no parental higher education we show that ethnic …
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overqualification is highly persistent among tertiary graduates over the first ten years of their career cycle. Accounting for …
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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...
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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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The study examines the wage gap between bachelor's and master's degree graduates in the Hungarian labour market by NUTS …
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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 …
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After increasing in the 1970s and 1980s, time to bachelor's degree has declined since the 1990s. We document this fact using data from three nationally representative surveys. We show that this pattern is occurring across school types and for all student types. Using administrative student...
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We study one potential source of urban agglomeration economies: better job matching. Focusing on college graduates, we … college graduates find better jobs by increasing both the likelihood and quality of a match. We then assess the extent to … wage premium. While we find that college graduates with better job matches do indeed earn higher wages on average, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096174