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of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising … supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … defines graduate jobs in terms of the proportion of graduates and/or the graduate earnings mark-up within occupations, we find …
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of return to graduates or graduate markups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising … supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … defines graduate jobs in terms of the proportion of graduates and/or the graduate earnings markup within occupations, we find …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...
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transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
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is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male … graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap. …
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This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment earn more than those who are less mobile. The clear finding is that mobility is associated with...
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process and in the life course. Applying multinomial logit modelling on the unique database on Polish graduates we find that …
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conducted to explore their benefits. Using data on a large sample of recent Italian graduates, this paper investigates the … have on the employment prospects of graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. …
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