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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
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Hollenbeck, Kevin – Economics of Education Review, 1993
Examines labor market outcomes of individuals with various types of postsecondary educational experiences, highlighting differences between students who have pursued technical programs, those who have pursued academic programs and those who have not pursued postsecondary education. Employs a triage model suggesting that employer-employee matches…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market
Teitelbaum, Peter; Kaufman, Phillip – 2002
The labor market outcomes of non-college-bound high school graduates were examined by analyzing the 1980 High School and Beyond Fourth Follow-up Survey, which contains information on more than 14,000 former high school students who were interviewed in 1980 as sophomores and again in 1982, 1984, 1986, and 1992. The study concentrated on respondents…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Curriculum, Definitions