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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012

positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …

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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012

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Should i stay or should i go? : an investigation of graduate regional mobility in the UK and its impact upon early career earnings

Kidd, Michael P.; O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014

mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The … to students extending their horizon of job search. A bivariate probit analysis also confirms that there is a positive …

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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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Cognitive performance and labor market outcomes

Lin, Dajun; Lutter, Randall W.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...

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Language and labor market success

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...

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Safety valve or sinkhole? : vocational schooling in South Africa

Pugatch, Todd - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-31

for students encountering difficulty in the transition from school to work. Yet if ineffective, vocational schooling could …

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Learning but not earning? : The value of job corps training for Hispanic youths

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso (contributor); … - 2005

The National Job Corps Study (NJCS) was a four-year longitudinal social experiment that randomized over 15,000 Job Corps eligible applicants into treatment and control groups. Experimental estimators revealed a positive impact of Job Corps training in the weekly earnings of white and black...

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Training intensity and first labor market outcomes of apprenticeship graduates

Euwals, Rob (contributor); Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Using German register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have longer first-job durations but not higher wages than...

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Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education : Accounting for Enrolment and Completion Effects

Herault, Nicolas - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature by separately analysing the signalling (or sheepskin) effects of the enrolment in and the completion of vocational education and training as well as higher education. Moreover, we investigate the persistence of these sheepskin effects over time. We take...

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