Examines higher education's costs and economic benefits, as perceived by final-form secondary students in Cyprus. Investigates the main influences on students' expected lifetime earnings. The findings support human capital theory. College-bound students expected their lifetime earnings to increase considerably. In comparison, labor market entrants…

The development and detail of a salary system at the University of South Carolina-Aiken that combines both merit and market inequity is described. Eleven principles of fairness are presented. (MLW)

Includes three articles: "More College Graduates May Be Chasing Fewer Jobs" (Shelley); "College Graduates: Do We Have Too Many or Too Few?" (Hecker); and "College Earnings and Why They Vary" (Hecker). (SK)

Considers overeducation in the context of the UK labor market, using a one in six sample of 1980 UK college graduates surveyed in 1986. Fully 38 percent of graduates were overeducated for their first job; 6 years later, 30 percent were overeducated and earned less than peers in graduate-level jobs. (Contains 26 references.) (MLH)

Every one of the 20 fastest-growing occupations, as listed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is in the service sector. Nearly all of the 15 million jobs that have been created since the November trough of the 1982 recession have been in the service sector. About half of these jobs pay at least $10 per hour, and those paying minimum wage or…

This study analyzes the recruitment, selection and compensation of laborers and beginning clerical workers in the Wheeling and Steubenville-Weirton areas during the middle 1960's. The validity of various assumptions regarding the tie between workers characteristics, adjusted wages offered, and recruitment methods was tested and the impact of other…

This study calculates the degree of substitutability between white and nonwhite labor within various occupational categories, in order to determine the extent of racial discrimination and to derive demand curves for nonwhite labor. The model developed in the study treats employer discrimination as a differential between total and money costs to…

Reports that recent studies indicate the demand for and salaries of chemical engineers is rising and is ahead of most other engineering disciplines. (SL)

This discussion on the lack of data concerning comparable worth concludes that efforts to design data collecting systems or even to tabulate and amass those data that already exist lag behind efforts to litigate and legislate comparable worth. The author discusses possible future scenarios on this subject. (CT)

This paper reviews the factors and mechanisms that have been driving inequality in Mexico and finds that educational inequality accounts for by far the largest share of Mexico's variation in earnings inequality. More specifically, it examines the expansion in earnings inequality with emphasis on the role of education, establishes an analytical…

Responses to a questionnaire survey of workers in a machine tool and parts company showed that internal labor market practices generally made a greater contribution to blue collar earnings than skill or knowledge acquired by workers before joining the firm. (Author/DS)

Studies the extent to which market and labor force characteristics, in addition to overt discrimination of employers, contribute to relative occupational position differences between blacks and whites in 25 Southern metropolitan areas. (MF)

The age-earnings profile of male workers is significantly influenced by the age composition of the workforce. The dependence of the age-earnings profile on demographically induced movements along a relative demand schedule suggests that standard human capital models of the profile are incomplete. (MF)

Estimates a high school diploma's effect on success in the labor market, aside from the effects of prior characteristics (race, gender, socioeconomic background, and academic achievement). Differences in unemployment and wages between teenagers with and without high school diplomas are mainly not attributable to differences in measured prior…

Uses findings from two Greek labor market surveys to decompose the gross male/female earnings differential into productivity-enhancing attributes and labor market discrimination components. Documents changes in the discrimination-over-time component and compares results with earlier studies. Gender productivity differences are minimal. Despite…