Ireland, Norman J., Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy (Jeremy P.), Telhaj, Shqiponje
An increase over time in the proportion of young people obtaining a degree is likely to impact on the relative ability compositions (i) of graduates and non-graduates and (ii) across graduates with...
Ability bias, skewness and the college wage premium (2009)
Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy (Jeremy P.)
Changes in educational participation rates across cohorts are likely to imply changes in the ability-education relationship and thereby to impact on estimated returns to education. We show that...
Wiji Arulampalam, Wiji Arulampalam, Robin Naylor, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith, Jeremy Smith
The probability of medical school dropout in the UK Factors affecting the probability of first-year medical student dropout in the UK: a logistic analysis for the entry cohorts of
for the UK university population. (2007)
Robin Naylor, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith, Jeremy Smith
Schooling e®ects on subsequent university performance: evidence
WAGES AND WAGE-BARGAINING INSTITUTIONS IN THE EMU – A SURVEY OF THE ISSUES (2007)
Charlotta Groth, Steinar Holden, Gisela Waisman, Daniele Checchi, Robin Naylor, ...
electronic version of the paper may be downloaded • from the SSRN website: www.SSRN.com • from the CESifo website: www.CESifo.de * This paper was first presented at the Österreichische...
Am I missing something? The effects of absence from class on student performance (2007)
Arulampalam, Wiji, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy (Jeremy P.)
We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We exploit the panel...
Marital sorting, household labour supply, and intergenerational mobility across countries (2007)
Raaum, Oddbjørn, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Österbacka, Eva, Eriksson, Tor, Jäntti, Markus, ...
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...
Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy (Jeremy P.), McKnight, Abigail
We exploit individual-level administrative data for whole populations of UK university students for the leaving cohorts of 1985-1993 (together with that of 1998) to investigate the influence of...
Dropping out of medical school in the UK: explaining changes over 10 years (2007)
Arulampalam, Wiji, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy P.
For the 1990-92 and 1998-2000 cohorts we find the probability of dropping out of medical school is lower for students (i) with better prior qualifications, (ii) with a parent who is a doctor, (iii)...
Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Jäntti, Markus, Eriksson, Tor Viking, ...
Raaum, Oddbjørn, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Österbacka, Eva, Eriksson, Tor Viking, Jäntti, Markus, ...
Different returns to different degrees? Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970 (2006)
Bratti, Massimiliano, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy (Jeremy P.)
As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young people in higher education, while also increasing the share of the costs of higher...
Bratsburg, Bernt, Naylor, Robin
We show that the patterns of intergenerational earnings mobility in Denmark, Finland, and Norway, unlike those for the US and the UK, are highly nonlinear. The Nordic relationship between log...
Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Jäntti, Markus, Eriksson, Tor, ...
We show that the patterns of intergenerational earnings mobility in Denmark, Finland, and Norway, unlike those for the US and the UK, are highly nonlinear. The Nordic relationship between log...
Daughters and left-wing voting (2006)
Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Nick Humphrey, Stephen Jenkins, Ron Johnston, Satoshi Kanazawa, ...
This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this...
Jäntti, Markus, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Österbacka, Eva, ...
We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and...
Boero, Gianna, Laurenti, Tiziana, Naylor, Robin
As in much of Europe, and in the particular context of the Bologna Convention on tertiary education, the Italian university system has experienced substantial reform in recent years, the major aims...
Higher education outcomes, graduate employment and university performance indicators (2003)
Bratti, Massimiliano, McKnight, Abigail, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy (Jeremy P.)
Official employment-related Performance Indicators in UK Higher Education are based on the population of students responding to the First Destination Supplement (FDS). This generates potentially...
Sheer class? The impact of degree performance on graduate labour market outcomes (2002)
Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy (Jeremy P.), McKnight, Abigail
We exploit individual-level administrative data for whole populations of UK university students for the leaving cohorts of 1985-1993 to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings....
Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy P.
From a unique data-set identifying the school attended prior to university for a full cohort of UK university students, we examine the determinants of final degree classification. We exploit the...
Arulampalam, Wiji, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy P.
From individual-level data for nine entire cohorts of undergraduate students in UK universities, we estimate the probability that an individual will drop out of university during their first-year. We...
The effects of entry in bilateral oligopoly (2002)
We show that a firm’s profits under Cournot oligopoly can be increasing in the number of firms in the industry if wages are determined by (decentralised) bargaining in unionized bilateral...
Sheer class? The extent and sources of variation in the UK graduate earnings premium (2002)
Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy, McKnight, Abigail
In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the whole population of 1993 leavers from the ¿old¿ universities of the UK to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings....
Sheer class? The extent and sources of variation in the UK graduate earnings premium (2002)
Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy, McKnight, Abigail
In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the whole population of 1993 leavers from the ¿old¿ universities of the UK to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings....
Arulampalam, Wiji, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy P.
Objectives: To assess the extent to which various factors influence the probability that anindividual medical student will drop out of medical school during their first year of study, focussing on...
Correa López, Mónica, Naylor, Robin
This paper compares Cournot and Bertrand equilibria in a downstream differentiated duopoly in which the input price (wage) paid by each downstream firm is the outcome of a strategic bargain with its...
A hazard model of the probability of medical school dropout in the United Kingdom (2001)
Arulampalam, Wiji, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy P.
From individual level longitudinal data for two entire cohorts of medical students in UK universities, we use multilevel models to analyse the probability that an individual student will drop out of...
Graduates and graduate labour markets in the UK and Italy (2001)
Boero, Gianna, McKnight, Abigail, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy
In the context of policy reforms in Higher Education in both the UK and Italy, we review recent evidence on student outcomes in higher education and subsequent transitions into the labour market for...
Firm profits and the number of firms under unionised oligopoly (2001)
We show that a firm’s profits under Cournot oligopoly can be increasing in the number of firms in the industry if wages are determined by (decentralised) bargaining in unionised oligopoly. The...
Industry profits and market size under bilateral oligopoly (2001)
We show that, contrary to the key result of the standard Cournot-Nash oligopoly model, industry profits can increase with the number of firms if input prices are not exogenous but are determined by...
Foreign direct investment and wage bargaining (1999)
Naylor, Robin, Santoni, Michele
We derive the sub-game perfect Nash equilibria for the foreign direct investment (FDI) game played between two unionised firms. Among other results, we show that FDI is less likely, ceteris paribus,...
Endogenous determination of trade regime and bargaining outcome (1999)
We show that whether trade is one-way or two-way depends on wage strategies adopted by trade unions. The union’s wage strategy choices themselves depend upon the conditions under which trade takes...
Endogenous determination of trade regime and bargaining outcome (1999)
We show that whether trade is one-way or two-way depends on wage strategies adopted by trade unions. The union’s wage strategy choices themselves depend upon the conditions under which trade takes...
An econometric analysis of student withdrawal and progression in post-reform Italian Universities
Gianna Boero, Tiziana Laureti, Robin Naylor
As in much of Europe, and in the particular context of the Bologna Convention on tertiary education, the Italian university system has experienced substantial reform in recent years, the major aims...
Jäntti, Markus, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Österbacka, Eva, ...
We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and...
Foreign direct investment and wage bargaining
We derive the sub-game perfect Nash equilibria for the foreign direct investment (FDI) game played between two unionized firms. We show that FDI is less likely, ceteris paribus, the greater is union...
Variations in the Wage Returns to a First Degree: Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970
Massimiliano Bratti, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith
As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher...
THE EFFECTS OF ENTRY IN BILATERAL OLIGOPOLY
We show that a firm’s profits under Cournot oligopoly can be increasing in the number of firms in the industry if wages are determined by (decentralised) bargaining in unionized bilateral...
Higher Education Outcomes, Graduate Employment and University Performance Indicators
Bratti, Massimiliano, McKnight, Abigail, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy
Official employment-related Performance Indicators in UK Higher Education are based on the population of students responding to the First Destination Supplement (FDS). This generates potentially...
SCHOOLING EFFECTS ON SUBSEQUENT UNIVERSITY PERFORMANCE : EVIDENCE FOR THE UK UNIVERSITY POPULATION
From a unique data-set identifying the school attended prior to university for a full cohort of UK university students, we examine the determinants of final degree classification. We exploit the...
SHEER CLASS? THE IMPACT OF DEGREE PERFORMANCE ON GRADUATE LABOUR MARKET OUTCOMES
Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy, McKnight, Abigail
We exploit individual-level administrative data for whole populations of UK university students for the leaving cohorts of 1985-1993 to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings....
McKnight, Abigail, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy
We exploit individual-level administrative data for whole populations of UK university students for the leaving cohorts of 1985-1993 (together with that of 1998) to investigate the influence of...
Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons
Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Markus Ja¨ntti, Tor Eriksson, ...
We show that the patterns of intergenerational earnings mobility in Denmark, Finland and Norway, unlike those for the US and the UK, are highly nonlinear. The Nordic relationship between log earnings...
We exploit individual-level data on full cohorts of UK university leavers who were enrolled for an Economics degree during the period 1984-85 to 1992-93 or the academic year 1997-98. We analyse the...
Sheer Class? The Extent and Sources of Variation in the UK Graduate Earnings Premium
Abigail McKnight, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith
In this paper, we use the individual-level USR data for the whole population of 1993 leavers from the 'old' universities of the UK to investigate the determinants of graduate occupational earnings....
Graduates and graduate labour markets in the UK and Italy
Gianna Boero, Abigail McKnight, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith
In the context of policy reforms in Higher Education in both the UK and Italy, we review recent evidence on student outcomes in higher education and subsequent transitions into the labour market for...
Firm profits and the number of firms under unionised oligopoly
We show that a firm’s profits under Cournot oligopoly can be increasing in the number of firms in the industry if wages are determined by (decentralised) bargaining in unionised oligopoly. The...
Endogenous determination of trade regime and bargaining outcome
We show that whether trade is one-way or two-way depends on wage strategies adopted by trade unions. The union’s wage strategy choices themselves depend upon the conditions under which trade takes...
Union Wage Effects: Does Membership Matter?
Barth, Erling, Raaum, Oddbjorn, Naylor, Robin
Using a matched employer-employee data set for Norway, we exploit rare information on the union status of both individual employees and their workplaces. We establish two key results. First, we find...
An Inter-establishment Study of Union Recognition and Membership in Great Britain.
In the absence of compulsion, union membership density in U.K. private sector establishments is extremely varied. Around one quarter of establishments without recognized unions have union densities...
We exploit a unique data-set matching individual-level data for the 1993 cohort of UK university leavers to DfEE school-level data. We analyze the determinants of undergraduate degree performance...
Higher education outcomes, graduate employment and university performance indicators
Massimiliano Bratti, Abigail McKnight, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith
Official employment-related performance indicators in UK higher education are based on the population of students responding to the 'First destination supplement' (FDS). This generates potentially...
Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Österbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, ...
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...
Trade and Wages When the Trade Regime Is Determined Endogenously.
The paper shows that whether trade is one-way or two-way depends on wage strategies adopted by trade unions. The union's wage strategy choices themselves depend upon the conditions under which trade...
Why Is There a Graduate Earnings Premium for Students from Independent Schools?
Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy, McKnight, Abigail
We examine the determinants of occupational earnings of UK 1993 graduates and focus on the influence of the type of school the graduate attended prior to university entrance. For data reasons, we...
Variations in the Wage Returns to a First Degree: Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970
Massimiliano Bratti, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith
As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher...
Markus Jäntti, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Eva Österbacka, ...
We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and...
Foreign direct investment and wage bargaining
We derive the sub-game perfect Nash equilibria for the foreign direct investment (FDI) game played between two unionised firms. Among other results, we show that FDI is less likely, ceteris paribus,...
Endogenous determination of trade regime and bargaining outcome
We show that whether trade is one-way or two-way depends on wage strategies adopted by trade unions. The union’s wage strategy choices themselves depend upon the conditions under which trade takes...
Graduate Employability: Policy and Performance in Higher Education in the UK.
Smith, Jeremy, McKnight, Abigail, Naylor, Robin
The UK government is introducing new sets of indicators designed to measure the performance of universities. A first wave of indicators was published in December 1999. A performance indicator based...
Union Wage Strategies and International Trade.
The author characterizes a full set of possible international trade regimes for different combinations of wages in a two-country model of oligopoly with a homogeneous product. He shows that the...
Industry profits and market size under bilateral oligopoly
We show that, contrary to the key result of the standard Cournot-Nash oligopoly model, industry profits can increase with the number of firms if input prices are not exogenous but are determined by...
Strikes, Free Riders, and Social Customs.
This paper applies the social custom model developed by G. A. Akerlof (1980) to the problem of explaining the logic of collective strike action. The paper demonstrates the possibility of stable...
The Open Shop Union, Wages, and Management Opposition.
Naylor, Robin, Raaum, Oddbjorn
This paper develops a model of union-firm bargaining in which union membership is determined with the wage through the impact of management opposition to unionization. Empirical evidence, both for...
Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Ãsterbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, ...
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...
Strikes, Free Riders and Social Customs
In recent years there has been a growing literature on the role of social customs in the labour market. Marsden (1986), for example, has emphasised the importance of group norms and social custom in...
Union Wage Strategies and International Trade
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between wage outcomes and the nature of international trade and economic integration when labour markets are unionized and a homogeneous product market is...
Arulampalam, Wiji, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy
Objectives To assess the extent to which various factors influence the probability that an individual medical student will drop out of medical school during their first year of study, focusing on the...
Different returns to different degrees? Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970
Bratti, Massimiliano, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy
As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young people in higher education, while also increasing the share of the costs of higher...
Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility : Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons
Bratsberg,Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Jäntti, Markus, Eriksson, Tor, ...
We show that the patterns of intergenerational earnings mobility in Denmark, Finland, and Norway, unlike those for the US and the UK, are highly nonlinear. The Nordic relationship between log...
Jäntti, Markus, Bratsberg,Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Österbacka, Eva, ...
We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and...
Am I Missing Something? The Effects of Absence from Class on Student Performance
Arulampalam, Wiji, Naylor, Robin, Smith, Jeremy
We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We utilise the panel...
Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Raaum, Oddbjørn, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Österbacka , Eva, Eriksson, Tor, Jäntti, Markus, ...
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...
Heterogeneities in the returns to degrees: evidence from the British cohort study 1970
Massimiliano BRATTI, Robin NAYLOR, Jeremy SMITH
Estimates of a high average return to a degree for UK graduates have provided a policy rationale for increasing the share of the costs of higher education borne by UK students over recent decades. We...