German educational spending per student has dramatically declined since the early 1970s. In this paper, we develop a theory of fiscal opportunism and argue that state governments exploit higher educational policies as an instrument of active labor market policy. By 'opening' universities to the...

Does parental joblessness delay young adults' school-to-work transitions? If so, can a university degree moderate this relationship? We examine these questions using a representative sample of young adults under the age of 25 that lived with their parents prior to entering the labor market in...

Pakistani Higher education population has increased rapidly in recent years as well as unemployment rate among individuals with higher education, however empirically least researched so far. The objective of this paper was to investigate the effect of higher education attainment on unemployment...