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Download full textDavidson, Carl – 1990
The most prominent theories of unemployment that have emerged since 1960 are search, disequilibrium, implicit contracts, efficiency wage, and insider/outsider models. Search models assume that it takes time and effort for employers and potential employees to find each other. A "partial-partial" equilibrium approach focuses on one side of…
Descriptors: Adults, Economic Research, Employment, Labor Economics
Peer reviewedMcMahon, Walter W.; And Others – Economics of Education Review, 1992
Three strategic effects on the rates of return to vocational and technical education (VOTEC) are considered: (1) the availability of complementary inputs such as general education; (2) the capacity of VOTEC to teach continuing adaptation to technical change; and (3) economies of scale that can be realized. (26 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Economic Research, Foreign Countries
Stromsdorfer, Ernst W.; Fackler, James S. – 1973
This case study examines the economic and institutional impact of cooperative vocational education on the employment, earnings and educational performance of the 1966 and 1970 graduation cohorts of Patterson High School, Dayton, Ohio. The performance of these groups is contrasted with that of students in the comprehensive high schools for the same…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Education
PDF pending restorationLeigh, Duane E. – 1975
The primary purpose of this paper is to improve on the specification of job experience as measured by current age, minus age at completion of formal schooling. The process of acquiring productive job skills was modeled by first focusing on the determination of the level of first-job occupation and then, given initial occupation, examining the…
Descriptors: Age, Black Employment, Blacks, Career Change
Belanger, Charles H.; Lavallee, Lise – 1979
The private internal rate of return to investment is evaluated in two levels in each of the following four educational programs: computer science, nursing, nutrition, and social work. In these fields, a situation occurs in which many bachelor's degree graduates and community college vocational degree holders perform exactly the same work and…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Choice, College Programs
Bloom, Dan; Michalopoulos, Charles – 2001
Studies of 29 welfare reform initiatives conducted by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation were synthesized in an exploration of how welfare and work policies affect employment and income. Each of the studies reviewed focused on one or more of the following key program features: mandatory employment services, earnings supplements, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research
