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Occupational Sorting of School Graduates : The Role of Economic Preferences
Fouarge, Didier - 2014
We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, college and university, measured around the …
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The GED
Heckman, James J. - 2010
test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141745
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School Tracking and Development of Cognitive Skills
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2009
The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...
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Do Vocational High School Graduates Have Better Employment Outcomes than General High School Graduates?
Torun, Huzeyfe - 2017
This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likelihood relative to general high school (GHS) education in Turkey using census data. To address non-random selection into high school types, we collect construction dates of the VHSs at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964489
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Access to and Returns from Unpaid Graduate Internships
Holford, Angus - 2017
to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to … also that graduates from higher socio-economic status have an advantage in accessing internships while being significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952604
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956013
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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S
Borghans, Lex - 2010
-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique … the results to the U.S. We find that (1) U.S. graduates hold more jobs than European graduates. (2) Contrasting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134818
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Differences by Degree : Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales
Walker, Ian - 2010
This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136727
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The Determinants of Education-Job Match Among Canadian University Graduates
Boudarbat, Brahim - 2009
This study uses data from the Follow-up of Graduates Survey Class of 2000, to look at the determinants of education …-job for Canadian university graduates. From a public policy perspective, the question of education-job match is relevant given … education-job match. In addition, the level of education (i.e. graduates with a postgraduate degree vs. a bachelor degree), as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155003
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Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates?
Pietro, Giorgio Di - 2013
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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