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This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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. Approximately 29% of new apprentices are university-eligible graduates from academic-track schools. We evaluate the effects of the …
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relation between university attended and employment prospects. …
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This paper determines the ranking of the publications units of assessment which were submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have been obtained if their submission had been evaluated with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency,...
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individuals who are "first in family" (FiF), those who achieve a university degree, but whose (step) parents did not. We provide … two-thirds of all university graduates. Comparing individuals with no parental higher education we show that ethnic … and become a FiF. Once at university, those who are FiF are more likely to study Law, Economics and Management and less …
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We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS …
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Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not … leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student … also shows the class size effects are not mitigated for students with greater knowledge of the UK university system, this …
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measures ought to be used in a REF. -- university evaluation ; RAE Research Assessment Exercise 2008 ; citations …
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We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We … suggest a positive return to university quality with an average earnings differential of about 6 percent for a one standard … deviation rise in university quality. However, the relationship between university quality and wages is highly non-linear, with …
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impact of a pay transparency initiative on the gender pay gap in the university sector, focusing on the Russell Group of top …
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