Seit Beginn der 2000er Jahre wurden die traditionellen Studienabschlüsse Diplom und Magister durch die gestuften Studienabschlüsse Bachelor und Master abgelöst. Mittlerweile ist die Umstellung weitestgehend abgeschlossen. Um die längerfristige Positionierung von Bachelorabsolventen am...

Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3% in 2000, and 11% of new permanent residents, up from 7%...

This study analyses the persistence and true state dependence of overqualification, i.e. a mismatch between workers' qualifications and their jobs’ educational requirements. Employing individual-level panel data for Germany, I find that overqualification is highly persistent among tertiary...

Der vorliegende Bericht fasst die zentralen Befunde einer Untersuchung zusammen, die das IAB Nord im Auftrag der Fachhochschule Kiel (FH Kiel) durchgeführt hat. Die Studie beinhaltet eine Analyse des Erwerbseinstiegs der Absolventen1 der FH Kiel für die Abschlussjahrgänge 2005-2014 und eine...

Daten einer umfangreichen Erhebung bei Absolventen/innen des Bachelor-Studiengangs Wirtschaftsinformatik der Hochschule Hannover eröffnen einen Einblick in das Berufsleben von Wirtschaftsinformatiker/n in den ersten Jahren nach Studienabschluss. Die Ergebnisse weisen auf eine hohe...

This paper examines the impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC), a statewide college-preparatory curriculum that applies to the high school graduating class of 2008 and later. We use a student, longitudinal database for all public school students in Michigan for the main analyses, and...

Over the course of higher education expansion and growing numbers of graduates, employers are supposed to have increasing difficulties to regard a higher education degree as reliable signal for productivity. As a consequence, they may take into account ‘qualitative’ differences such as...

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...

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...

Decisions taken at the start of one’s career have long-term consequences and one important decision graduates have to make is whether to be regionally mobile when looking for the first job. We investigate whether being regionally mobile for the first job following graduation rather than to...

Over the course of higher education expansion and growing numbers of graduates, employers are supposed to have increasing difficulties to regard a higher education degree as reliable signal for productivity. As a consequence, they may take into account 'qualitative' differences such as...

Overqualification signals a mismatch between jobs' educational requirements and workers' qualifications implying potential productivity losses at the macro and the micro level. This study explores how the family background of German graduates affects the probability to hold a job that does not...

Economic factors and individual attitudes have an impact on the mobility of university graduates. At this point of the life, mobility is highest, but still little is known about the process leading to actually starting a job at a certain place. The paper at hand investigates the job search...

Das hohe Angebot und die Zunahme von Absolventinnen und Absolventen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen rücken diese in regelmässigen Abständen in den Fokus bildungs- und arbeitsmarktpolitischer Diskussionen. Nicht selten werden in diesem Zusammenhang Zulassungsbeschränkungen...

This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, few studies have analyzed returns at the very top of the education distribution. We highlight the...

I exploit a unique educational policy - implemented in most German states between 2001 and 2007 - that reduced high school duration by one year while keeping its curriculum unaltered to investigate how the resulting increase in learning intensity affected student achievement. Using 2000-2009...

Es gibt einige Besonderheiten beim Bewerben als Doktorand in Deutschland. Das Ziel dieses Papiers ist es, die wichtigsten dieser Besonderheiten für ausländische Absolventen zu erklären, die über ein Promotionsstudium in Deutschland nachdenken. Solch ein Studium ist kostenlos in Deutschland...