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Grissom, Jason A.; Timmer, Jennifer D.; Nelson, Jennifer L.; Blissett, Richard S. L. – Grantee Submission, 2021
We investigate the male-female gap in principal compensation in state and national data: detailed longitudinal personnel records from Missouri and repeated cross-sections from the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). In both data sets, we estimate substantively important compensation gaps for school leaders. In Missouri,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Principals, Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration)
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Okahana, Hironao; Hao, Yi – Innovative Higher Education, 2019
Utilizing the 2013 "National Survey of College Graduates" (Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System, National Science Foundation, 2015), this study examined three measures of labor market outcomes: annual earning potentials; primary work activity; and education-job match for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Labor Market, Outcomes of Education, STEM Education
Lin, Yuxin; Liu, Vivian Yuen Ting – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
Over one in three students who started college in 2012 did not enroll in the fall immediately following their high school graduation. Despite the prevalence of delayed college enrollment, however, little is known about its consequences for labor market outcomes. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this paper examines…
Descriptors: Enrollment, College Attendance, Time, Labor Market
Price, Mark; Herzenberg, Stephen – Keystone Research Center, 2018
"The State of Working Pennsylvania 2018," Keystone Research Center's 23rd annual review of the Pennsylvania economy and labor market finds that, nearly a decade into the current national economic expansion, many Pennsylvania workers are still waiting for a raise. The report points to three factors that help explain this. First, despite…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Labor Market, Promotion (Occupational), Wages
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Lima, Alex Felipe Rodrigues; Ribeiro, Felipe Garcia; Teixeira, Gibran da Silva – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate five job qualification programs for young apprentices, in Goiás, a Brazilian State. We expect to contribute to the improvement and strengthening of the job training programs in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach: We applied propensity score matching and extensions such as the generalized…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Apprenticeships, Program Effectiveness, Program Length
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Wieschke, Johannes – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
Changes in wages and other job characteristics during an individual's career are often the result of job mobility. Using a sample of Bavarian university graduates, this work analyses the effects that employer changes have on men's and women's wages. For this, employer changes are grouped into three categories in order to account for different…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Occupational Mobility, Wages, Females
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Forrest, Cameron J.; Swanton, Tasman – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a measure of soft skills suitable for use in a large survey of Australian adolescents. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was conducted with N = 4,704 Australians aged 15-19 over 2 years. Principal components analysis was performed on 14 self-report items, followed by generalised linear mixed…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Soft Skills, Outcomes of Education
Feng, Yun – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation studies the effects of China's higher education expansion reform on workers' labor market outcomes. In Chapter 1, I investigate how China's higher education expansion reform affects young workers' labor market outcomes. Using data from the 2005 China Population Survey, I estimate the effects of the reform using a diff-in-diff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Higher Education, Educational Development
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Witteveen, Dirk; Attewell, Paul – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Numerous studies have investigated the consequences of vertical transfer on students' higher education outcomes in comparison to "native 4-year students"--those who went straight from high school into a bachelor's program. However, the long-term labor market outcomes for vertical transfer students are understudied. Using…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Community Colleges
Reid, Alana; Chen, Hui; Guertin, Rebecca – Statistics Canada, 2020
This article looks at the labour market outcomes of 2015 postsecondary graduates three years after graduation. Specifically, it examines their employment status, job permanency, relatedness of their job or business to their 2015 educational program, the degree to which graduates feel qualified for their job, their employment income and their job…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Labor Market, Employment Patterns
Winters, John V. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2020
This study examines how the "college earnings premium" (CEP)--the difference in average earnings between workers with and without college education--varies across the United States. Specifically, it compares across cities, states, and rural areas the mean earnings of workers with bachelor's degrees to those with associate degrees, with…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Income, Education Work Relationship, Geographic Location
Gould, Elise; Mokhiber, Zane; Wolfe, Julia – Economic Policy Institute, 2019
Fallout from the Great Recession did a lot of damage to the employment prospects of young adults just entering the workforce after graduating from high school or college--and that damage persisted well into the recovery. In this study, the authors analyze data on recent young college graduates (ages 21-24) to learn about the Class of 2019's…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Graduate Study, Employment Level, Unemployment
Harris, Connor – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2020
Conventional wisdom regards a college degree as necessary for a well-paying job and a good life. By focusing on average earnings, this conventional wisdom obscures the enormous variability in outcomes at each education level; in fact, the top half of high school graduates earn in the same range as the bottom half of college graduates. However the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Salary Wage Differentials, Outcomes of Education, High School Graduates
Barber, William J., II; Barnes, Shailly Gupta; Bivens, Josh; Faries, Krista; Lee, Thea; Theoharis, Liz – American Educator, 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic arrived, the United States was already deeply unequal. Before the pandemic, 140 million Americans were poor or near poor, living just one emergency above the poverty line. Inequality in the United States did not happen suddenly and cannot be explained as the consequence of individual failures; rather, decades of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Public Policy, Equal Education, Activism
Price, Mark; Herzenberg, Stephen – Keystone Research Center, 2015
Slow job growth and a labor market still short of full employment have resulted in stagnant wages and little growth in income in Pennsylvania. In order for the majority of Pennsylvania families to see real income growth in the years ahead the state will need a combination of faster job growth and economic policies that actively seek to raise wages…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Labor Market, Promotion (Occupational), Wages
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