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Direct linkKim, Kyung-Nyun; Baker, Rose M. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
This study investigates the effects of adults' enrollment in and graduation from a two-year college on their hourly wages and occupational status in U.S. by employing a growth curve model and a piecewise model. College enrollment reduced hourly wages and occupational status by 13.8% and 2.74 points, respectively. Less-educated workers whose wages…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Investigations, Student Costs
Download full textSpalter-Roth, Roberta; And Others – 1994
A study used data for the 1987 calendar year from the 1986 and 1987 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to examine the impact of union membership on women's wages and job tenure. The data set included 17,200 sample members, representing about 79 million workers, aged 16-64. The study mapped the distribution of union…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Employed Women, Individual Characteristics
Bernhardt, Annette; Morris, Martina; Handcock, Mark; Scott, Marc – 1998
One of the most pressing questions facing researchers and policy makers today is how economic restructuring has affected the nature of work and mobility in the United States. Emerging research has begun to focus on analyses of longitudinal datasets, taking up such questions as whether wage growth has deteriorated and whether the rate of job…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Bernhardt, Annette; Morris, Martina; Handcock, Mark; Scott, Marc – 1998
To determine whether there has been a secular rise in job instability among young adults over the past 3 decades, a study compared two National Longitudinal Survey cohorts of young white men. The first cohort entered the labor market in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the second during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The study examined…
Descriptors: Career Change, Comparative Analysis, Employment Patterns, Labor Problems
Ornstein, Michael D. – 1971
This analysis of entry into the labor force by American men between the ages of 30 and 39 was based on a set of about 1,600 retrospective life history interviews, approximately half from whites and half from blacks. At the time of entry the mean level of whites' education was higher than that of blacks and this was translated into jobs with higher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biographical Inventories, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Card, David E., Ed.; Blank, Rebecca M., Ed. – 2000
This book contains 13 papers on labor market and welfare reform, with special emphasis on the demand for low-wage workers, wages and job characteristics in the less skilled labor market, public politics to increase employment and earnings of less skilled workers, and the impact of welfare reform. The following papers are included: "The Labor…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Day Care, Economic Climate
