4th Forum “Higher Education and the Labour Market” (HELM)

Thursday, October 6th 2022

• 12:00 p.m. – Opening
• 12:10 p.m. – Short welcome by the organizers
  Bernhard Christoph (Institute for Employment Research – IAB)
  Anja Gottburgsen (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies – DZHW)
• 12:15 p.m. – Welcome address
  Prof. Dr. Monika Jungbauer-Gans (Scientific Director of the DZHW/Univ. of Hanover)
• 12:30 p.m. – Keynote 1: Health and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on University Students around the World at the Beginning of the Pandemic
  Prof. David A. Jaeger, PhD (University of St Andrews)
• 01:30 p.m. – Coffee break
• 01:45 p.m. – Session 1: Transitions After Secondary Education Before and After the Pandemic
  Chair: Markus Nagler (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg/CESifo)
  Fledging the nest – The role of family context and regional opportunities for transitions to adulthood
  Kars van Oosterhout (ROA), Katarina Weßling (BIBB/ROA)
  The COVID-19 pandemic, well-being, and transitions to post-secondary education
  Malte Sandner (IAB), Alexander Patzina (IAB/Univ. of Bamberg), Silke Anger (IAB/Univ. of Bamberg), Sarah Bernhard (IAB), Hans Dietrich (IAB)
  Post-secondary decision sooner or later? Social inequality and individual capabilities in the decision to take a “Gap Year” after high school graduation
  Michael Grüttner (Leibniz Center for Science and Society/DZHW), Frauke Peter (DZHW), Sandra Buchholz (DZHW/Univ. of Hanover)
• 03:15 p.m. – Coffee break
• 03:30 p.m. – Session 2: Student Experiences During Covid-19
  Chair: Frauke Peter (DZHW)
  Session 3: University Dropout & De-registration Before and During the Pandemic
  Chair: Nancy Kracke (DZHW)
  Changes of student perspectives at TU Graz: A comparison between survey results before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Hannes Müller, Christoph De Marinis (both TU Graz)
  The things we (might) lose. Content and context of online learning in times of COVID-19
  Meike Bredendiek, Lena Hoffmann, Emilia Kmiotek-Meier (all Univ. of Cologne)
  Impaired, chronically ill and neurodiverse students’ experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic
  Julia Loose (Leibniz Center for Science and Society)
  How did college dropout differ before and during the pandemic? The relationship between feelings of overload and self-efficacy and their connection to college dropout thoughts
  Marie-Christin Ehrhardt, Karsten Becker (both DZHW)
  Studying in times of the Covid-19 pandemic: Why are students with disabilities more likely to drop out of higher education?
  Mareike Rußmann (DZHW), Markus Lörz (HIS-HE), Nicolai Netz (DZHW)
  Individual effects of forced de-registrations in German higher education
  Friederike Hertweck (RWI), Ulrike Schwabe (DZHW)
• 05:00 p.m. – Coffee break
• 05:15 p.m. – Keynote 2: Flexible Grading, Emergency Relief Funds, and Students’ Academic Success During the Covid-19-Pandemic
  Prof. Núria Rodríguez-Planas, PhD (City University of New York, Queens College)
• 06:15 p.m. – End of Day 1

Friday, October 7th 2022

• 09:00 a.m. – Session 4: Student Admission, Student’s Financial Situation and Tuition Fees Before and After the Pandemic
  Chair: Alexander Patzina (IAB/Univ. of Bamberg)
  Session 5: Returns to Education: Differences by Skill Requirements, Region, and Cohort
  Chair: Bernhard Christoph (IAB)
  The financial situation of students during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Dennis H. Meier, Stephan Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer (all Univ. of Hannover)
  Tuition fees and academic (in)activity in higher education. How did students adjust to the abolition of tuition fees in Germany?
  Johannes Berens, Leandro Henao, Kerstin Schneider (all Univ. of Wuppertal)
  COVID19-Pandemic and students admission challenges into higher education institutions of Nigeria
  Oluwafemi Imisioluwa Olatunde (Fed. Univ. Oye-Ekiti Ekiti State, Nigeria)
  Unpacking rising degree requirements: Graduate skill requirements and their consequences for pay
  Golo Henseke (UCL), Alan Felstead (Univ. of Cardiff), Duncan Gallie (Univ. of Oxford), Francis Green (UCL)
  Tertiary education and the urban wage premium in Germany
  Theresa Michlbauer (Univ. of Würzburg)
  Monetary returns to higher education: A comparison of babyboomers age 45-60 with their direct down- and upstream cohorts
  Jessica Ordemann (DZHW)
• 10:30 a.m. – Coffee break
• 10:45 a.m. – Session 6: Outcomes of Higher Education: Transition to Employment, Continuing Education, and Graduate Tracking
  Chair: Jessica Ordemann (DZHW)
  Session 7: Student Coping and Student Involvement During the Pandemic and Before
  Chair: Anja Gottburgsen (DZHW)
  Entry conditions and the transition from tertiary education to employment
  John Moffat (Durham University), Duncan Roth (IAB)
  Effects of continuing education on labour market outcomes of tertiary educated workers: Evidence from a factorial survey experiment
  Ladina Rageth, Ursula Renold, Aranya Sritharan (all ETH Zürich)
  Register-based graduate tracking in the Austrian labour market – A powerful tool
  Michael Hofer, Lukas Mitterauer, Franziska Kurka (all three Univ. of Vienna), Judith Zehetgruber, Johanna Einfalt, Michael Huber (all three Statistics Austria)
  Non-academic involvement of international students and their role for academic progress
  Fabian Koenings, Julia Peter, Silke Uebelmesser (all FSU Jena)
  Explorative study of international students’ coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Rosalyn Eder (PMU Salzburg)
• 12:15 p.m. – Lunch Break
• 01:00 p.m. – Session 8: Gender Differences in Major Choice, Employment Trajectories, and Income
  Chair: Silke Anger (IAB/Univ. of Bamberg)
  Gender differences in earnings expectations and their role for major choice
  Katharina Adler (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Markus Nagler (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg/CESifo), Fabian Kosse (LMU Munich/CESifo), Johannes Rincke (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg/CESifo)
  Are employment trajectories of STEM doctoral degree holders gender-specific? Evidence from a large German technical university
  Simone Bartsch (TU Berlin), Guido Buenstorf (INCHER/Univ. of Kassel), Anne Otto (IAB), Maria Theissen (INCHER/Univ. of Kassel)
  The gender income gap in postgraduate education – Evidence from German doctoral studies
  Dennis Becker (Univ. of Hamburg)
• 02:30 p.m. – Farewell
• 02:45 p.m. – End of the conference

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