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Li, Fengliang; Wang, Liang – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Few empirical studies have analyzed the return to distance higher education in different academic disciplines. This study used quantitative methods, data from a nationwide survey, and Mincerian earnings function to analyze the return to distance higher education among different disciplines in China's labor market. Results were compared with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Labor Market
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Joo, Lan – International Education Studies, 2018
The study examined the prevailing assumption of education's role in labor market outcomes using samples from Korea's young adult population. KEEP, collected annually by KRIVET since 2004, includes an initial sample in 2004 of 12th graders from both general and vocational high schools; the sample size reflected a total of 2000 students for each…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Labor Market, Vocational High Schools, High School Students
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Štefánik, Miroslav; Horvát, Peter – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This article provides evidence about differences in the recent tertiary education expansion in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. Focusing on these differences, we have examined private returns to tertiary education acquired before and after the tertiary education expansion. We compare these returns as follows: Austria with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Labor Market
Public Policy Institute of California, 2021
The past year highlighted and heightened California's key challenges. Millions of Californians lost jobs and income during the COVID-19 crisis; low-income families, communities of color, and women were hit hardest. As schools and universities shifted rapidly to remote learning, educators and parents scrambled to provide all students with…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
McMahon, Walter, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This series addresses the relation of education to knowledge-based growth and broader measures of development beyond growth, central features of the modern world in which education has a central role. This role includes the effects of education on pure economic growth including its effects on the creation, adaptation, and dissemination of new…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Expenditure per Student, Higher Education, Human Capital
Baek, Yongchun; Jones, Randall – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2005
With inputs of labour and capital slowing, sustaining high growth rates in Korea will increasingly depend on total factor productivity gains, which are in turn driven to a large extent by innovation. While a number of Korean firms are at the world technology frontier in areas such as ICT, the diffusion of technology to lagging sectors is a…
Descriptors: Productivity, Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Intellectual Property