scholarly journals Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Mother Tongue-Based Education on Reading Skills and Early Labour Market Outcomes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethlehem Asres Argaw
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Early Labour ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes

Labour Market Returns to Graduates’ International Experience: Exploring Cross-Country Variation in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marita Jacob ◽  
Michael Kühhirt ◽  
Margarida Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Market Returns ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Early Labour ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
Graduate Unemployment ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe potential benefits of increased international experience abound, ranging from enriching cultural understanding to an improvement of language skills and intercultural competence. At the same time, empirical evidence is mixed, particularly with regards to how well international experience translates into individual returns on the labour market. This article examines the association between studying abroad and early labour market outcomes in a comparative perspective aiming to shed light on why labour market returns differ across countries. We expect labour market returns to vary with specific country characteristics such as demand for international experience and competition among graduates at labour market entry. In our empirical analyses, we use data from 13 European countries that provide information on graduates’ early labour market outcomes. We find a large variation in the impact of studying abroad on both wages and attaining a higher service class position. Generally, the labour market returns to international experience are larger in countries in Eastern and Southern Europe with poorer university quality, higher graduate unemployment, and fewer students abroad.

scholarly journals Post-Compulsory Education in England: Choices and Implications

2017 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. R42-R57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Hupkau ◽  
Sandra McNally ◽  
Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela ◽  
Guglielmo Ventura
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Education System ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Long Tail ◽  
National Examination ◽  
Academic Track ◽  
Early Labour ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
The Many

Most students do not follow the ‘academic track’ (i.e. A-levels) after leaving school and only about a third of students go to university before the age of 20. Yet progression routes for the majority that do not take this path but opt for vocational post-compulsory education are not as well-known, which partly has to do with the complexity of the vocational education system and the difficulty of deciphering available data. If we are to tackle long-standing problems of low social mobility and a long tail of underachievers, it is essential that post-16 vocational options come under proper scrutiny. This paper is a step in that direction.We use linked administrative data to track decisions made by all students in England who left compulsory education after having undertaken the national examination – the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) – at age 16 in the year 2009/10. We track them up to the age of 21, as they progress through the education system and (for some) into the labour market. We categorise the many different types of post-16 qualifications into several broad categories and we look at the probability of achieving various educational and early labour market outcomes, conditional on the path chosen at age 17. We also take into account the influence of demographics, prior attainment and the secondary school attended. Our findings illustrate the strong inequality apparently generated by routes chosen at age 17, even whilst controlling for prior attainment and schooling up to that point

scholarly journals Modelling the Impact of Electricity Access on Labour Market Outcomes in Uganda

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannick Fosso Djoumessi ◽  
Benjamin AWODUMI ◽  
Oluyemi ADEOSUN ◽  
Faith AHABYOONA
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
The Government ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Electricity Access ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Radius Matching

Abstract This study is designed to assess the impact of household electricity access on labour market outcomes in Uganda. The quasi-experimental method is applied on a sample of 28,035 households, divided into two counterfactual of treatment (n=8,925) and control (n=19,110) groups. Results strongly show that access to electricity significantly increases wages while decreasing the time spent at work. Specifically, the average wage of the households with access to electricity increased by 155%, 124% and 154% with the Kernel Matching (KM), Nearest-Neighbor Matching (NNM) and Radius Matching (RM) technique, respectively. The average job duration of households with electricity access decreased by 1.34%, 2.01% and 2.5% with KM, NNM and RM technique, respectively. It is recommended that the government of Uganda should increase electricity generation coverage through alternative sources as renewable and nuclear energy and improve the quality of existing energy infrastructures. JEL codes: C13, C31

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