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returns to education, experience, and physical attractiveness among young workers applying for entry-level jobs in a …
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Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job...
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70% of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected …
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analysis provides novel evidence for the magnitude and the origin of ethnic wage differentials by gender. In general, ethnic … observed characteristics. Most notably, Mediterranean female graduates have significant positive wage discrimination while … Western female graduates seem to face a small wage penalty …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...
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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 …
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We exploit linked survey-administrative data from England to examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose … parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among graduate women, FiF graduates earn 8 …
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We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
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This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
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As an alternative to traditional academic schooling, vocational schooling in South Africa may serve as a safety valve for students encountering difficulty in the transition from school to work. Yet if ineffective, vocational schooling could also be a sinkhole, offering little chance for success...
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