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Direct linkXu, Rui – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation presents three separate essays. The first two essays explore the gender wage gap and its dynamics in urban China from 1995 to 2018. The first chapter decomposes the gender wage gap based on the observed wage for workers with a precise measure of the hourly wages. The first chapter examines the observed average gender wage gap in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Salary Wage Differentials, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Flatt, Candace – ProQuest LLC, 2017
According to the United States Department of Justice (2017), over 10,000 formerly incarcerated individuals are released each week from federal and state prisons. Approximately two-thirds of this population will be re-arrested within three years of release. Although employment has been found to reduce recidivism, the majority of formerly…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Recidivism, Human Capital
Karasik, Bradley – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This secondary analysis of the earning mobility of the near poor examined the impact of human capital investment on the earning mobility of the near poor between 2005 and 2009. The theory framing this study is Human Capital Theory (Shultz, 1961). Other demographic and socioeconomic variables were included in this study to further explore factors…
Descriptors: Wages, Poverty, Low Income Groups, Human Capital
Edenborg, Michelle D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Using theoretical constructs of the human capital theory (Schultz, 1959) and the resource-based view of the firm (Barney, 1991), this study examines whether the type of education completed has an impact on an individual's choice between self-employment and employment with a firm. In addition, this study seeks to understand the geographic…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Self Employment, Employment Level, Vocational Education
Baxter, Paula Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative study attempted to analyze the educational goals and achievements of successful present and former Native American students at San Juan College (SJC) in Farmington, NM. It considered a systemic approach to educating Native American students by taking into account their suggestions of how to improve the educational framework to…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Community Colleges, American Indians, Focus Groups
Yano, Satoko – ProQuest LLC, 2012
After the fall of the Soviet Union and its transition in the 1990s towards a democratic form of government, Mongolia was forced to embark upon a complete series of reforms within society, including within its education sector. Mongolia's higher education sector was significantly affected by this change. Private higher education institutions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Change, Mixed Methods Research
