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Hunkerstorm, Louisa; Prescott, Brian – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
Recent years have seen accelerating interest in measuring the employment outcomes of recent college graduates. New data tools and research, such as the College Scorecard, increasingly sophisticated state-level data systems, and studies investigating students' long-term economic mobility, continue to roll out. While postgraduate wages have been an…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment, Wages, Geographic Location
Troutman, David R.; Creusere, Marlena – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
A postsecondary credential is associated with higher levels of earnings, not just in the short term, but over a lifetime. Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce found that college graduates earn more than one million dollars more in lifetime wages, compared to high school graduates. However, many factors influence…
Descriptors: Employment, Salary Wage Differentials, College Graduates, Majors (Students)
Perry, Angela – Project on Student Debt, 2019
California has long been a national and global leader in developing and maintaining quality higher education options, as well as in providing financial aid and consumer protections for Californians who access that education. However, although California's colleges and the state government do collect, receive, and report a great deal of data, these…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Access to Information, Wages, Data Collection
Shultz, George P.; Weber, Arnold R. – 1966
When Armour and Company faced a shutdown of six plants, it joined in a cooperative program of vocational retraining with two labor unions; an Automation Fund Committee was formed, with representation from management, the unions, and "public" (college professors); and an experimental program in Oklahoma City provided experience which was…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cooperative Programs, Course Content, Dropout Rate
Adams, John F.; And Others – 1977
Focusing on the factors inhibiting the labor market's adjustment to economic change, the study examined the economic and social problems facing southern rural areas and populations, including Chicanos and migrants. Factors were in the areas of the labor market behavior, income and earnings, poverty, welfare system and welfare reform, manpower…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Black Employment, Economic Development, Economic Research