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Hull, Jim – Center for Public Education, 2016
High school graduates are defined as those students who graduated high school on time with a standard high school diploma or higher. It does not include students who earned a general education diploma (GED), a certificate of completion, vocational diploma, special education diploma or any other credential that illustrates student accomplishments…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Noncollege Bound Students, Career Readiness, Career Planning
Polidano, Cain; van de Ven, Justin; Voitchovsky, Sarah – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
Tailoring education policy to deliver the skills needed by modern labour markets is complicated by the rapid pace of technological change. These complications are amplified when the associated risks of technological redundancy and the lengthening working lifetimes are taken into account. At the heart of the challenge for policy-makers is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Skill Development, Educational Change
Huntington-Klein, Nick – Center for Education Data & Research, 2015
The decision to pursue formal education has significant labor market implications. To approach the decision rationally, a student must consider the costs and benefits of each available option. However, mounting empirical evidence suggests that reported expectations of costs and benefits are uncertain and vary across students. Hastings et al.…
Descriptors: Prediction, Labor Market, Decision Making, Higher Education
Van Horn, Carl; Zukin, Cliff; Szeltner, Mark; Stone, Charley – John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, 2012
This report describes the findings of a nationally representative sample of 544 recent high school graduates from the classes of 2006 through 2011. The purpose of this study is to understand how recent high school graduates who are not attending college full time are faring in the workforce, specifically looking at those individuals who graduated…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Economic Climate, Employment, Employment Level
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen – Sutton Trust, 2013
This report revisits the debate about why social mobility levels are relatively low in Great Britain and the United States of America compared to other countries. It focuses on three main areas within this debate: (1) the changing role of educational inequalities; (2) the expectation of ever higher levels of education as revealed in increasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, Equal Education, Academic Degrees
Edgington, Rachel – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2011
In this report, the Graduate Management Admission Council[R] (GMAC[R]) presents the results from the 2011 Corporate Recruiters Survey. Conducted annually since 2001, this survey examines the job outlook for recent graduate business students as well as employer needs and expectations. The objectives of this study are to obtain a picture of the…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Personnel Selection, College Graduates, Employment Opportunities
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2011
In this report, the Graduate Management Admission Council[R] (GMAC[R]), in cooperation with MBA Career Services Council and EFMD, presents the results of the 2011 Corporate Recruiters Survey, the tenth annual survey of business graduates' employers. The primary purposes of this study are to examine the job market for graduates from MBA and other…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Administrator Education, Personnel Selection, Student Attitudes