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Labour market disadvantage of ethnic minority British graduates : university choice, parental background or neighbourhood?
Zwysen, Wouter; Longhi, Simonetta - 2016
We compare school-to-work transitions of British graduates belonging to ethnic minorities to those of white British. Six months after graduation ethnic minorities are substantially less likely to be employed than white British even after accounting for parental background, local area...
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Graduate returns, degree class premia and higher education expansion in the UK
Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy; Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410583
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Steve Jobs or no jobs? : entrepreneurial activity and performance among Danish college dropouts and graduates
Bünstorf, Guido; Nielsen, Kristian; Timmermans, Bram - 2016
students graduate, and if they registered a new venture. We find that a larger share of dropouts starts a business, but this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500252
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Understanding the transition to work for first degree university graduates in Portugal : the case of the University of Évora
Galego, Maria Aurora; Caleiro, António - 2009
A traditional way of looking at the importance of universities assumes that these are sources of many positive effects from the point of view of the inputs, i.e. from a demand side perspective. In accordance to this perspective, the importance of a university can be measured by its multiplier...
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Peer quality and the academic benefits to attending better schools
Hoekstra, Mark; Mouganie, Pierre; Wang, Yaojing - 2016
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Brain drain or brain gain? : graduate student migration in old industrial regions : analysis of the Central Lower Rhine Area, Germany
Jaeger, Angelika; Kreutzer, Fabian - 2012
factors explaining economic growth. In any economic region, gaining insights into the phenomenon of regional graduate … objectives concern the assessment of the distribution of migration patterns, migration motives, graduate characteristics … that for the Central Lower Rhine Area, the associated regional brain drain resulting from graduate emigration cannot be …
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Is there a role for higher education institutions in improving the quality of first employment?
McGuinness, Séamus; Whelan, Adele; Bergin, Adele - 2016
found to have substantial impacts in reducing the incidence of graduate mismatch. The use of private employment agencies was …
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Higher education expansion and labor market outcomes for young college graduates
Ou, Dongshu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...
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The effect of university attended on graduates' labour market prospects : a field study of Great Britain
Drydakis, Nick - 2016
Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates...
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