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Peer reviewedBorgen, William A.; And Others – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1988
Conducted exploratory study of male college graduates who experienced underemployment to discover significant events occurring during this experience and the feelings attached to those events. Interviews with 15 underemployed college graduates revealed 318 critical events which could be classified into 29 categories. Developed graphic illustration…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Coping, Emotional Response, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSolmon, Lewis C. – American Psychologist, 1978
This article reviews certain behaviors of graduate departments in regard to possible sex discrimination. It also evaluates job market conditions for men and women with data from a national sample of doctorate holders and from a recent survey of mobile or nontraditionally employed PhD's in psychology. (Author)
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Females, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Download full textJenkins, Carolyn – 1992
The relationship between education and the economy is explained by opposing theories--functionalism and conflict. A way of assessing functionalism and conflict theory is to see if increasing educational attainment increases social equality. Higher educational attainment has occurred but has not led to an equal distribution of income. The extent of…
Descriptors: Blacks, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Educational Status Comparison
Anderson, Eleanor Vaile – 1983
The effect of limited faculty openings in high-ranked science departments on the self-esteem of graduates of prestigious research institutions was studied. Attention was also focused on the faculty productivity and participation in professional networks of these highly-qualified, new faculty who failed to secure an appointment in an elite…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Graduates, Employment Opportunities, Higher Education
Metz, A. Stafford; Hammer, Charles H. – 1981
Findings are presented from the National Center for Education Statistics' 1978 Recent College Graduates Survey, which estimates the number of recent graduates and the February 1978 employment and salary status of individuals who received bachelor's degrees from July 1, 1976, to June 30, 1977. A nationally representative sample of 297 institutions…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns
Ahren, Nancy C.; Scott, Elizabeth L. – 1981
A study analyzed the career outcomes of men and women Ph.D.s Based on a sample survey of approximately 50,000 Ph.D scientists, engineers, and humanists, conducted in 1979 by the National Research Council, the study examined 5164 triads consisting of one woman and two men who were matched as nearly as possible according to selected background…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Behavioral Sciences, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis
