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Kalleberg, Arne L.; Dunn, Michael – Community College Review, 2015
Objective: The labor market success of community college students depends on both the attributes of individual students and the characteristics of the community colleges they attend. In this article, we examine the impact of community college characteristics on the earnings of first-time college students who enrolled in the North Carolina…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Outcomes of Education, Education Work Relationship
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Dunn, Michael; Kalleberg, Arne L. – Journal of Educational Issues, 2017
The evolution of community colleges from their origins as junior colleges to institutions with dual missions to provide both academic and workforce preparation raises questions about the impact of a college's mission focus on their students' labor market success. We examine this question using the 58 colleges in the North Carolina Community…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Community Colleges, College Outcomes Assessment, Institutional Mission
Dunn, Michael; Kalleberg, Arne L. – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2016
The evolution of community colleges from their origins as junior colleges to institutions with dual missions to provide both academic and workforce preparation raises questions about the impact of a college's mission focus on its students' labor market success. We examine this question using data from the 58 colleges in the North Carolina…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Mission, Labor Force Development, Labor Market
Kalleberg, Arne L.; Dunn, Michael – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
The extent to which community college students experience labor market success depends on both the attributes of the individual students and the characteristics of the community colleges they attend. In this paper, we examine the impact of community college characteristics on the earnings of first-time college students who enrolled in the North…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Labor Market, Institutional Characteristics
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Kalleberg, Arne L. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2013
The economic boom of the 1990s veiled a grim reality: in addition to the growing gap between rich and poor, the gap between good and bad quality jobs was also expanding. The postwar prosperity of the mid-twentieth century had enabled millions of American workers to join the middle class, but as author Arne L. Kalleberg shows, by the 1970s this…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Potential, Economic Climate, Sociocultural Patterns