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Drewes, Torben – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
The primary purpose of the report is to explore the impact of PISA reading scores on the early labour market outcomes of young Canadians of the Youth in Transition Survey. This inquiry is complicated by two facts. First, family and school characteristics that are positively correlated with PISA scores are also correlated with labour market…
Descriptors: Evidence, Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Labor Market
Balsa, Ana I. – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
Current estimates of the societal costs of alcoholism do not consider the impact of parental drinking on children. This paper analyzes the consequences of parental problem-drinking on children's labor market outcomes in adulthood. Using the NLSY79, I show that having a problem-drinking parent is associated with longer periods out of the labor…
Descriptors: Wages, Labor Market, Alcohol Abuse, Parent Child Relationship
Mordechay, Kfir – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2011
Across the massive megalopolis stretching from the northern suburbs of Los Angeles County through the metropolitan complex along the northern border of Baja California is a diverse area containing 24 million people, with a disproportionate percentage of Latinos and African Americans who are facing an educational and economic disaster. As it…
Descriptors: Social Class, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Labor Market, Educational Opportunities
Lee, Uisok – ProQuest LLC, 2010
From the 1960s to the 1990s in the United States, a distinctive feature was observed in variations in the number of Bachelor's degree recipients by field of study. The number in each field demonstrated certain cyclical patterns. Similarly, the U.S. economy experienced fluctuations during a comparable period. Given this 40-year trend, this study…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Unemployment, Wages, Human Capital
Stuit, David A.; Springer, Jeffrey A. – Foundation for Educational Choice, 2010
This report analyzes the economic and social costs of the high school dropout problem in California from the perspective of a state taxpayer. The authors' analysis considers the consequences of this problem in terms of labor market, tax revenue, public health, and incarceration costs. The authors' quantification of these costs reveals the sizeable…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropouts, Economic Factors, Taxes
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
Research messages 2010 is a collection of summaries of research projects published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The summaries are clustered under five broad themes used by NCVER to organise its research and analysis: Industry and employers; Students and individuals; Teaching and learning: VET system; and VET in…
Descriptors: Retirement, Employment Level, Employer Attitudes, Learning Disabilities
Lounsbury, Susan; Datubo-Brown, Christiana – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2019
The SREB Fact Book on Higher Education includes data on the population and economy, enrollment, degrees, student tuition and financial aid, faculty and administrators, revenue and expenditures. With more than 100 tables of detailed information, the Fact Book is one of the nation's most respected and most comprehensive collections of comparative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Adults, Academic Degrees
Fischer, David Jason; Reiss, Jeremy – Center for an Urban Future, 2010
While public attention remains focused on the highest unemployment numbers in a generation, New York City is drifting toward a structural crisis with which policy makers could be grappling long after the recession fades to a bad memory. Even as the concerns about financial capital that spurred the downturn begin to subside, public officials must…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Human Capital, Educational Attainment, Labor Market
Reder, Stephen – National Institute for Literacy, 2010
The research presented in this report offers new insights about the relationship between changes in adult literacy and changes in employment and earnings. This paper will first describe the design and methodology of the Longitudinal Study of Adult Literacy (LSAL) and then present the key findings from LSAL about individuals' literacy growth over…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Adult Literacy, Employment Potential, Education Work Relationship
Rowland, Moira – Youth Studies Bulletin, 1985
Discusses the debate over whether lowering youth wages would materially help the young unemployed to find jobs. The author sets out some of the theoretical and factual background to the debate, and gives references to the few serious inquiries made in the last three or four years. (CT)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Statistics, Minimum Wage, Salary Wage Differentials
Brookings Institution, 2010
This report marks the inaugural edition of a regular summary report in Brookings' "State of Metropolitan America" series. It focuses on the major demographic forces transforming the nation and large metropolitan areas in the 2000s. In this sense, it previews what people will learn from the results of the 2010 census, as well as supplements those…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Demography, Population Growth, Migration
Jean, Sebastien; Causa, Orsetta; Jimenez, Miguel; Wanner, Isabelle – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2007
Immigration pressures are increasing in most OECD countries. This paper investigates the consequences of immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages, and…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Immigration, Immigrants

Wachter, Michael L. – Journal of Human Resources, 1972
Descriptors: Economic Research, Labor Economics, Labor Market, Salary Wage Differentials
Bellmann, Lutz – 1996
The relationship between wage differentiation and long-term unemployment was examined in a study that considered data regarding long-term unemployment and minimum wages in the United States, Japan, and 10 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Data regarding wages and unemployment in the 11 countries were…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Competition, Developed Nations, Employment Level
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This document contains transcripts of United States Senate hearings of March, 1981, on the Youth Opportunity Wage Act of 1981. The proposed Act would set a lower minimum wage for work performed by youth under the age of 20; and extend the allowable lower wages to be paid in other industries besides the food service and retail industries where they…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attitudes, Employer Attitudes