Higher Education and the Determination of Aggregate Male Employment by Age

Autor/inn/en	Stenberg, Anders; Wikstrom, Magnus
Titel	Higher Education and the Determination of Aggregate Male Employment by Age
Quelle	In: Education Economics, 12 (2004) 1, S.87-101 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-5292
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Males; Foreign Countries; Academic Degrees; Higher Education; Labor Market; Employment Patterns; Age Differences; Education Work Relationship; Educational Attainment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut
Abstract	This paper studies the determinants of age-specific employment rates among Swedish males, focusing on the effect of education on employment. We use cohort specific data for the time period 1984-1996 covering male cohorts aged 21-45. It is found that aggregate age-group-specific employment rates increase with the proportion of the cohort with an academic degree. Two states of the labour market are then compared; the high employment period 1984-1990 and the downturn 1991-1996. The effect is stronger in the downturn period as compared with the boom period. However, we do not find any strong evidence in favour of the hypothesis that the effect of higher education on employment is declining with age. A measure of relative education is used to capture crowding out effects. The results indicate a significant effect in the high employment period. (Author).
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