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Peer reviewedCreech, Sandra K.; And Others – Review of Higher Education, 1994
The economic impact of Texas higher education is examined in three areas: income (gross state product), payroll, and employment. Two alternative models are compared the net difference used to show the quantitative benefits of appropriations to selected public institutions rather than reduced tax rates. Impact is found to be positive, even without…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Economic Impact, Educational Economics, Employment Patterns
Peer reviewedMarginson, Simon – Australian Journal of Education, 1995
An analysis of the economic returns of education in Australia finds a rising need for education at a time of diminishing apparent returns. It is proposed that the notions of credentialism and education as a positional good provide a better explanation for this phenomenon than does the human capital approach. (MSE)
Descriptors: Careers, Credentials, Economic Change, Educational Attainment
Download full textRedovich, Dennis W. – 1999
Observations of schools and the economies of various countries and regions (including the Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, and the United States) suggest that the following generally accepted principles may be called hoaxes: (1) great numbers of new emerging jobs of the future will require much higher skill levels for workers; (2)…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Educational Benefits, Educational Change
Bird, Ronald E. – 1985
This paper describes an initial effort to provide a carefully reasoned, factually based, systematic analysis of teacher pay in comparison to pay in other occupations available to college-educated workers. It also reports on the sensitivity of these salary comparison estimates to differences in certain characteristics of the labor force, such as…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Research, Educational Economics
Hu, Teh-wei, And Others – 1968
This study was concerned with the optimum allocation of public resources in education, and involved a comparison between vocational-technical education and an alternative curriculum for non-college attending students. Major steps in the study were: (1) identification of costs and benefits, (2) collection of representative data, (3) determination…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors
Belanger, Charles H.; Lavallee, Lise – 1979
The private internal rate of return to investment is evaluated in two levels in each of the following four educational programs: computer science, nursing, nutrition, and social work. In these fields, a situation occurs in which many bachelor's degree graduates and community college vocational degree holders perform exactly the same work and…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Choice, College Programs
