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Frick, Bernd; Maihaus, Michael – Education Economics, 2016
Using two representative samples of some 74,000 students and 11,000 graduates, respectively, we analyse the accuracy of students' wage expectations given their individual characteristics. We find that students are aware of the effects of most of their own characteristics, as a large number of determinants of expected and realised salaries do not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Salaries, Internship Programs, College Graduates
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Grave, Barbara S.; Goerlitz, Katja – Education Economics, 2012
Using data on German university graduates, this paper analyzes wage differentials by field of study at labor market entry and five to six years later. At both points of time, graduates from arts/humanities have lower average monthly wages compared to other fields. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions show that these wage differentials can be explained…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Wages, Labor Market, College Graduates
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Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; Barros, Carlos Pestana; Vieira, Jose A. C. – Education Economics, 2008
This paper seeks to analyse the relationship between wages and education at a European level, using a quantile regression in order to be able to extend the study along the whole wage distribution. This analysis is carried out for a sample of 14 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Regression (Statistics), Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment