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Educational track, networks and labor market outcomes

Margolis, David N. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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High school types, academic performance and early labour market outcomes

Cappellari, Lorenzo (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Do a few months of compulsory schooling matter? : The education and labour market impact of school leaving rules

Bono, Emilia del (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates

Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023

We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...

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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023

, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging … are much more likely to graduate themselves. The marriage market also contributes: Women's chance of getting marriage …

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Disruptive peers and academic performance : short- and long-term outcomes

Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

How do disruptive peers shape academic and career paths? We examine this question by leveraging the random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece and identifying the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance and career paths. Using suspension hours as a measure of...

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Gender differences in STEM persistence after graduation

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college but what actually happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM persistence over the career. We find a continuous...

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The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010

The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...

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Lifecycle impact of alternative higher education finance systems in Ireland

Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011

system (ICL) and a graduate tax system from a fiscal and redistributional viewpoint and to analyze the repayment length under … the former system. Our results suggest that an ICL system would is more equitable, while the graduate tax system would be … microsimulation ; income contingent loan ; graduate tax …

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Differences by degree : evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...

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