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Vogel, Jonathan – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
What is the impact of the minimum wage on the college wage premium? I show that job-ladder models imply that the effect should be small on impact--raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage--and grow over time as workers slowly move up the job ladder. Guided by my theory, I present evidence that these dynamic effects are present…
Descriptors: Minimum Wage, Wages, Salary Wage Differentials, Labor Market
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Seonkyung Choi; Huihui Li; Keiichi Ogawa; Yoshiyuki Tanaka – International Journal of Training Research, 2024
Indonesia has prioritized upper secondary vocational education since 2006. This study examines the labour market outcomes of upper secondary vocational education in terms of decent work (DW), using Indonesian Family Life Survey data and a research framework that links DW into the broader labour economics of the school to work transition. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Vocational Education, Rural Urban Differences
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Passaretta, Giampiero; Sauer, Petra; Schwabe, Ulrike; WeBling, Katarina – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2023
Evidence on gender inequality in the labor market is extensive. However, little is known about the potential role of overeducation and horizontal mismatch in explaining women's labor-market disadvantages. We draw on recent data from the Eurograduate pilot survey to investigate the role of overeducation, field-of-study mismatch and field-specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market
Claire Kovach; Muhammad Maisum Murtaza; Stephen Herzenberg – Keystone Research Center, 2024
As we approach this Labor Day, the Pennsylvania economy is growing steadily. Working families are sharing in prosperity in a more sustained way than at any point since 1980--although many families still struggle to make ends meet and, in our polarized nation, a big partisan divide exists in perceptions of whether the economy is better than four…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Development, Trend Analysis, Labor Market
Herzenberg, Stephen; Kovach, Claire; Murtaza, Maisum – Keystone Research Center, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented economic and policy challenges to the United States and other countries. Navigating out of the pandemic slowdown is another novel experience, which makes it more difficult to answer the question addressed each year in the "State of Working Pennsylvania": How is the Pennsylvania economy…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Wages, Unemployment, Employment Patterns
Shiyan Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation focuses on the structures and impacts of digital skills in the rapidly transforming labor market. It is rooted in the premise that understanding the value of digital skills requires a relational perspective, acknowledging that these competencies are not isolated, but form complex structures across different occupations. The…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Skill Development, Job Skills, Occupations
Herzenberg, Stephen; Murtaza, Muhammad Maisum; Kovach, Claire – Keystone Research Center, 2021
The United States and Pennsylvania economies are at a pivot point: Will we build forward better or will we build back the same? Will we make things even worse? This report revisits the policy choices that lie ahead. Most of this annual checkup on the Pennsylvania economy, the 26th "State of Working Pennsylvania," presents labor market…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Wages, Unemployment, Labor Market
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Marioni, Larissa da Silva – Education Economics, 2021
This paper analyses the prevalence of educational mismatch and its effects on wages in Brazil using a large employer-employee dataset. I find that half of the Brazilian labour market is mismatched, with similar proportions of over- and undereducated. Overeducated (undereducated) workers earn significantly lower (higher) than their co-workers who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Labor Market, Wages
Fogg, Neeta; Harrington, Paul; Khatiwada, Ishwar; Hanover, Larry – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2020
Part-time workers' earnings are much lower than those of their full-time counterparts, a difference often referred to as the part-time wage penalty. The mean hourly wage of part-time workers is only two-thirds that of full-time workers. Despite this wage penalty, there were no significant differences between part- and full-time workers in literacy…
Descriptors: Part Time Employment, Wages, Human Capital, Labor Market
Herzenberg, Stephen; Murtaza, Muhammad Maisum – Keystone Research Center, 2019
Tom Wilson, the chair of the executive committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce published an op-ed titled "Save Capitalism by Paying People More." Wilson acknowledges in blunt terms that ordinary working Americans are not flourishing economically. This year's annual "The State of Working Pennsylvania" documents the accuracy of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Wages, Unemployment, Employment Patterns
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R. M. Lysaght; N. Bobbette – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2024
Background: Productivity-based wage systems are intended to enhance the labour market participation of people with disabilities. Limited scholarship exists regarding the impact of such policies in practice. This qualitative study explored stakeholder perspectives on the Australian Supported Wage System (SWS), including perceptions of fairness and…
Descriptors: Wages, Productivity, Civil Rights, Relationship
Andrew S. Hanks; Shengjun Jiang; Xuechao Qian; Bo Wang; Bruce A. Weinberg – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets. Furthermore, the protection double majors experience is more…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Outcomes of Education, Wages, Labor Market
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Brian Heseung Kim; Kelli A. Bird; Benjamin L. Castleman – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
Despite decades and hundreds of billions of dollars of federal and state investment in policies to promote postsecondary educational attainment as a key lever for increasing the economic mobility of lower income populations, research continues to show large and meaningful differences in the mid-career earnings of students from families in the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Labor Market, Community College Students, Graduates
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Lena Maleševic Perovic – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
The author of this article provides an example of how one might incorporate behavioral economics into teaching macroeconomics or labor economics at an undergraduate level. The focus is on two macroeconomic concepts--wage determination and the Phillips curve--and shows that the implications and conclusions of both models differ from their textbook…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Macroeconomics, Teaching Methods, Labor Market
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Jesse Eze; Kenneth Shores; Vikrant Kamble; Trey Miller – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: The landscape of education is increasingly recognizing the impactful role of Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs in preparing students for the workforce. In Delaware, the implementation of CTE programs has been substantial, offering students opportunities to earn college credits, attain industry certifications, and gain…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Vocational Education, Program Effectiveness, High School Students
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