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Leal, Marco Aurelio Navarro; Roux, Ruth – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
Engineering programs are commonly supported by higher education policy and planning initiatives on the grounds of a supposed saturation of the labor market by other types of educational programs. However, labor market saturation is dependent on the economic characteristics and the sociocultural capital of specific locations. The aims of this study…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Employment Level
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Tigau, Camelia; Guerra, Bernardo Bolaños – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
This paper examines the relationship between skills prices (wage premiums) and inequality in migrant sending countries (mainly from Latin America) and explores the implications for education policies. Most of the evidence is based on the case of Mexico, a Latin American country that is also an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development…
Descriptors: Correlation, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Educational Policy
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This paper reports that between 2008 and 2009, unemployment rates across OECD countries increased among people at all educational levels, but rose to especially troubling heights among people without an upper secondary education. In 2009, the average employment rate across OECD countries was much higher for individuals with a tertiary (i.e.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Climate, Global Approach, Educational Attainment
Vigdor, Jacob L. – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2008
This report introduces a quantitative index that measures the degree of similarity between native- and foreign-born adults in the United States: the ability to distinguish the latter group from the former is defined as "assimilation." The Index of Immigrant Assimilation relies on Census Bureau data available in some form since 1900 and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adults, Income, Wages
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Quinn, Michael A.; Rubb, Stephen – Economics of Education Review, 2006
The positive impact of education on earnings, wages, and economic growth is well documented; however, the issue of education-occupation matching in developing countries has been largely ignored. Since workers' levels of schooling and their occupations' required level of education both affect wages, policymakers may find it useful to note if such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Wages, Productivity