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Michael Baker; Yosh Halberstam; Kory Kroft; Alexandre Mas; Derek Messacar – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
We study the effects of the unionization of faculty at Canadian universities from 1970-2022 using an event-study design. Using administrative data which covers the full universe of faculty salaries, we find strong evidence that unionization leads to both average salary gains and compression of the distribution of salaries. Our estimates indicate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, College Faculty, Salaries
Fuesting, Melissa A. – College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, 2023
This report provides a deep dive into higher ed admissions employees, who play a key role in the future sustainability of colleges and universities. In addition to highlighting the pay and size of the admissions workforce, the report focuses on time in position, diversity, and pay equity. Taken together, we find that colleges and universities have…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admissions Officers, Labor Force, Wages
Sedzmak, Kaitlyn N. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Wage gap statistics continue to show that efforts around equitable pay distributions continue to fail. These data inform us that the outcomes are not meeting expectations therefore something must change. We still see nationally that white men are paid more than any other gender or racial group, which tells us that we are hiring more diverse…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Salaries, Gender Differences, Racial Differences
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Wenzinger, Emma; Cheah, Ban – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2022
Majoring in business typically pays off. While graduates' earnings and federal student loan debt vary by institution and degree level, the majority of business programs lead to median earnings that are roughly 10 times graduates' debt payments two years after program completion. "The Most Popular Degree Pays Off: Ranking the Economic Value of…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Schools, College Programs, Economic Impact
Choi, Junghee – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
Climbing the ladder of institutional prestige is often promoted by leaders and policymakers in higher education, but there may be trade-offs associated with striving for status. This study examines the impact of Texas's National Research University Fund (NRUF), which uses financial incentives to support institutions' pursuit of prestige, on the…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Salaries, Wages, College Faculty
Franklin, Cedric K. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Salary compression is defined as an issue of inequity when individuals performing the same job responsibilities (and in the same position) have varying compensation levels (Bereman & Lengnick-Hall, 1994; Homer et al., 2020). It occurs when a new employee is hired at a higher compensation than someone with longer tenure within the organization,…
Descriptors: Salaries, Career Pathways, Salary Wage Differentials, Compensation (Remuneration)
Asif Khan – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
A committee report accompanying a national defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2022 includes a provision for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the Department of Defense's (DOD's) payroll system for overseas DOD Education Activity employees. This report: (1) describes the status of DOD's efforts to address auditors' prior…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Federal Government, Military Training, Compensation (Remuneration)
Delis, A.; Jones, C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This study investigates whether the completion of an optional 'sandwich' work placement enhances graduate starting salaries. We use a variety of multivariate regression techniques to investigate this issue and find that the graduate starting salaries of students who took professional work placements were significantly higher by £1686 ($2105)…
Descriptors: Job Placement, College Graduates, Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials
Patricia Cortés; Jacob French; Jessica Pan; Basit Zafar – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
We assess the role of information gaps in understanding gender differences in negotiation behavior by conducting a randomized information experiment on the 2018 to 2020 graduating cohorts of undergraduate business majors from Boston University. Prior to starting their job search, treated students were provided with objective information about the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Employment, Business Administration Education, Salaries
Lloyd, Chrishana M.; Carlson, Julianna; Barnett, Hannah; Shaw, Sara; Logan, Deja – Child Trends, 2022
In 2021, Child Trends was selected to conduct a literature review and develop a policy and practice report to map the history of systemic racism in the U.S. and how it has influenced early childhood education (ECE) policy and practice, with a particular focus on educator pay and benefits, preparation, and workforce stability. This report…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Racial Discrimination, Racial Integration, Wages
Rudakov, Victor; Figueiredo, Hugo; Teixeira, Pedro; Roshchin, Sergey – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
The study is devoted to the evaluation of the determinants of job-education mismatches and their impact on salaries of university graduates. We use a comprehensive and nationally representative survey of Russian university graduates. The study employs a self-evaluated measure of mismatch and a statistical variant for robustness and interpretation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, College Graduates, Wages
Leslie Seawright; Rhonda Stanton – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2024
In the discipline of technical/professional writing and communication, one of the strongest recruiting tools we use is the potential earning power students will have once they obtain a degree and secure a job in the industry. This article is the result of two professors learning that one of their most advanced and dedicated students accepted, in…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Technical Writing, Salary Wage Differentials, Salaries
Richard Harris; Mariluz Maté-Sánchez-Val; Manuel Ruiz Marín – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Using UK data supplied by universities, this paper confirms that women academics earn less than men, even after controlling for a range of covariates. Despite narrowing after 2004/05, the observed (unconditional) pay gap was still -0.089 in 2019/20, while the conditional pay gap was relatively unchanged remaining at around -0.050 in 2019/20. The…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Salary Wage Differentials, Foreign Countries, Time
Kelly A. Slaton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As the cost of living continues to increase over time, many Americans are placing greater scrutiny on the financial choices they make. An area for such evaluation is if the outcomes of going to college continue to be worth the cost. One underrepresented group, first-generation college students (FGCS), is less likely than non-FGCS to attend and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Longitudinal Studies, College Graduates, Income
Adam Shumway – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The three chapters of this dissertation use tools of applied microeconomics to study topics related to education and regulation. The first chapter, "Where Doctors Work," studies how openings and closures of medical schools in the United States have affected the geographical distribution of doctors. The principal contribution is the…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Medical Schools, Geographic Distribution, Physicians