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Vocational High School Graduate Wage Gap : The Role of Cognitive Skills and Firms

Hartog, Joop - 2018

Comparing cohorts born between 1951 and 1994, we document and interpret changes in the wage differential among graduates from secondary education with a vocational and a general curriculum. The wage gap initially increased and then decreased. We find that these changes cannot be attributed to...

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Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan

Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2016

This paper examines the impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC), a statewide college-preparatory curriculum that applies to the high school graduating class of 2008 and later. We use a student, longitudinal database for all public school students in Michigan for the main analyses, and...

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No Place Like Home? Graduate Migration in Germany

Haußen, Tina - 2015

We empirically analyze sub-national migration of graduates in Germany and its determinants. Based on a longitudinal, representative survey-based dataset of students who graduated in the academic year 2004/2005, we observe the transition to the labor market and previous and subsequent migration...

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Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?

Cockx, Bart - 2009

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size - The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia; Vuri, Daniela - 2021

We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000 inhabitant-increase in the size of the individual’s province of work reduces the chances of being an...

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Stay in School or Start Working? - The Human Capital Investment Decision under Uncertainty and Irreversibility

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Pilichowski, Margarethe - 2021

As the time of leaving school determines the level of academic achievement this timing decision is central for the human capital investment decision. Real option theory offers a new perspective of the human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility. Unlike other...

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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education

Haußen, Tina - 2015

The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students who might move away after graduation. This paper...

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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs

Cigno, Alessandro - 2015

level, degree mark) is strictly required to perform a graduate job. School leavers fall into two categories, the rich and … the poor. Ability is distributed in the same way in both groups. Graduate jobs are differentiated by quality. The output … of each graduate job-worker match depends on the worker's ability and educational achievement as well as on the quality …

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