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Direct linkBelfield, Clive R.; Bailey, Thomas – Community College Review, 2011
This article reviews the existing literature on the economic and other benefits of attending community college. First, the article reports on the earnings gains across all students and reviews the evidence for subgroups by gender, minority status, and credits accumulated. The article then reviews the methodological challenges associated with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Attendance, Literature Reviews, Evidence
Peer reviewedVerdugo, Richard R.; Verdugo, Naomi B. – Journal of Human Resources, 1989
From a random sample of 14,596 White males aged 25-64, earnings of those who were employed full time, year round were analyzed. Results show that overeducated workers--those with educational attainments substantially above the mean for their occupations--often earn less than their adequately educated and undereducated counterparts. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Research, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison, Employment Qualifications
Download full textSturm, Roland – 1993
In policy debates, the U.S. education and training (ET) system is often blamed for the nation's eroding position in the world economy. Long-term international analysis reveals little evidence of deindustrialization or falling labor productivity. However, other industrial countries have caught up. Most economic research directly concerned with ET…
Descriptors: Competition, Economic Factors, Economic Progress, Economic Research
Levy, Frank; Michel, Richard C. – 1988
This paper examines the growing college premium for younger men and the earnings patterns for other groups that developed between 1973 and 1987. At first glance, the rapidly increasing college premium for young men seems to confirm several frequently cited economic trends, including a massive restructuring of the economy that displaces all less…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Business Cycles, College Graduates, Economic Factors
Hanushek, Erik A., Ed.; Welch, F., Ed. – Elsevier, 2006
The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. With contributions from leading researchers, each Handbook presents an accurate,…
Descriptors: Economics, Education Work Relationship, Wages, Educational Resources
Haveman, Robert; Wolfe, Barbara – 1982
The human capital and growth accounting approaches to measuring the benefits of education both have serious weaknesses. Like other goods and services, educational services have effects on the economic well-being of individuals and families. Because the economic well-being effects of education include private marketed and non-marketed impacts as…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Economic Status, Educational Attainment, Educational Benefits
