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The labor market returns to "first in family" university graduates

Adamecz, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2022

market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university … smaller firms, working in jobs that do not require their degree, and motherhood. Second, FiF graduate men also differ in their … endowments from non-FiF graduate men; however, FiF men earn higher returns on their endowments than non-FiF men and thus …

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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective

Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022

While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...

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Run, graduate, run : internationally mobile students' reactions to changing political landscapes in Europe

Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2021

Over the last decades, Europe attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor to the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question whether changing political landscapes in...

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The economics of university dropouts and delayed graduation : a survey

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2018

This survey organizes and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of university student achievements. According to the theoretical framework, the decision to invest in tertiary education is a sequential process made under gradually decreasing levels of uncertainty...

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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?

Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...

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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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Field-of-study homogamy

Bičáková, Alena; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2017

This paper reports evidence on the strong tendency of the college educated to match with partners who graduated in the same field of study - a dimension of assortative matching that has been overlooked thus far. We employ Labor Force Survey data covering most EU countries to measure the extent...

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What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?

Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; Couck, … - 2019

Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the...

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Motherhood, migration, and self-employment of college graduates

Cai, Zhengyu; Stephens, Heather M.; Winters, John V. - 2019

extended family and child care, relates to self-employment and hours worked for college-graduate married mothers. Our results …

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