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Maria Marta Ferreyra; Camila Galindo; Sergio Urzua – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher education otherwise) and the diversion margin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Length, Program Evaluation, Higher Education
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2017
The purpose of this study is to answer key questions about the structure of certificates and their function in employability and degree attainment in the Washington State Community and Technical College (CTC) System. Specifically, this study addresses the following: (1) Do certificates play a role in helping students progress along career pathways…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Student Certification, Employment Potential
Wilson, Bryan – National Skills Coalition, 2020
There is growing interest in providing students and others with information about the performance of postsecondary education and training programs. Currently, if one wants to know how many students get jobs and what those jobs pay, one cannot find comparable information for programs across the nation. Consumer reports, which display information…
Descriptors: Performance, Information Dissemination, Access to Information, Electronic Publishing
Holzman, Brian; Gul, Mehreen; Salazar, Esmeralda Sánchez; Kennedy, Camilla Cigarroa – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
This report examined: (1) Supply and demand for labor in Houston and Texas, including an examination of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's (THECB) "60×30TX" strategic plan; (2) In-demand occupations and skills in the Houston area; and (3) Early career wages and unemployment receipt among high school graduates from the…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Urban Areas, Supply and Demand, Wages
Shaw, Elyse; Tesfaselassie, Adiam – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2020
"The Status of Women in North Carolina: Political Participation" is the third in a series of four publications on women's status in North Carolina. This report presents data on several aspects of women's involvement in the political process in the North Carolina, comparing North Carolina to other states and the United States overall. The…
Descriptors: Females, Economic Factors, Opportunities, Racial Differences
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Asali, Muhammad – Education Economics, 2019
We provide a simple framework that helps explore the need for contingent (teaching) jobs in academia alongside the usual tenured-professorship positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. Imprecisions in the academic editorial process, combined with the increasing…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Teacher Researchers, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
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Johnson, Jessica A.; Taylor, Barrett J. – Innovative Higher Education, 2019
In the academic capitalist knowledge regime, institutions compete for prestige and funding. Reward structures emphasize science and engineering (S&E) fields for their potential to generate money and status. Masculine norms and male majority in S&E fields may create conditions for gender differences in faculty compensation. We explored the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials, Financial Support
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Heffernan, Troy A. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2019
Students at America's most renowned private universities face different acceptance rates, college wealth, class sizes, and potential graduate earnings even in comparison with students at the nation's highest-ranking public institutions. The analyses that led to these findings frequently focused on national or state-wide comparisons of public…
Descriptors: College Students, Institutional Characteristics, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Schmick, Ethan J.; Shertzer, Allison – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
Cities in the United States dramatically expanded spending on public education in the years following World War I, with the average urban school district increasing per pupil expenditures by over 70 percent between 1916 and 1924. We provide the first evaluation of these historically unprecedented investments in public education by compiling a new…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Education, Educational Finance, Achievement Gap
Creston C. Lynch – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Early career attrition in student affairs is a topic of interest for hiring and supervising managers, graduate preparation programs, as well as new professionals. Contributions to the growing body of research on the topic potentially informs best practices in curriculum development, hiring, onboarding, and professional development for new student…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Labor Turnover, Career Change, Entry Workers
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Lavery, Lesley; Jochim, Ashley; Gill, Sean – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2021
In this brief, we set out to understand how unionization may or may not shape practices central to charter schools' ability to serve students. The study, an exploratory one, includes 29 interviews across eight schools that unionized four to six years ago. Our results point to areas of concern, optimism, and future research. We found: (1)…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Unions
Baker, Bruce D.; Di Carlo, Matthew; Schneider, Lauren; Weber, Mark – Albert Shanker Institute, 2021
The State Indicators Database (SID), which is the School Finance Indicators Database's (SFID) primary product, includes approximately 125 variables, but this report focuses on three key school finance measures: fiscal effort, adequacy, and progressivity. This report discusses how states' systems tend to mediate the impact of economic downturns and…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), State Aid, Financial Support, Educational Finance
DiBenedetto, Katelyn; Peters, Eleanor Eckerson; Voight, Mamie – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
Many of the gender and racial wage gaps found in society are also seen within higher education, with less diversity among college administrators, faculty, and staff than the United States population as a whole. Postsecondary institutions alone cannot correct the systemic inequities that limit socioeconomic mobility and racial justice, but they can…
Descriptors: Equal Opportunities (Jobs), College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Disproportionate Representation
Lillian Flemons; Dawson McLean; Suzanne Straw; Gillian Keightley – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2024
Further education (FE) plays a key part in the post-16 educational landscape in England in delivering technical and academic education that is vital to the country's supply of skilled workers. Yet, despite this importance, the sector has been facing significant challenges in recent years, including critical staff shortages in some subject areas.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Shortage, Salary Wage Differentials
Prasiddha Shakya – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This paper examines the impact of increasing teacher salaries on student outcomes by exploiting variation from the "50K The First Day" campaign that established a $50K salary floor for new teachers across New Jersey school districts. Using school-level data from 2003 to 2019, we employ a staggered difference-in-differences (DiD) approach…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public School Teachers, Teacher Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials
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