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Baird, Matthew David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
I study three separate questions in this dissertation. In Chapter 1, I develop and estimate a structural dynamic model of occupation and job choice to test hypotheses of the importance of wages and non-wages and learning in occupational transitions, and find that wages are approximately 3 times as important as non-wage benefits in decisions and…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Economics, Models, Career Choice
Baehler, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the level of a student's performance based on incoming knowledge in an intermediate macroeconomic and microeconomic course at a major mid-western university. Analysis of student understanding of specific economic concepts was accessed through the Test of Understanding College Economics, 4th Edition (TUCE) (Walstad,Watts &…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Economics Education, Comprehension, Macroeconomics