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Jia, Ruixue; Li, Hongbin – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
A burgeoning literature has documented the importance of elite colleges. Yet, little is known about access to elite education and its labor market implications in China, a country that produces one in every five college graduates in the world. College admission in China is governed by a single exam--the national college entrance exam, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Selective Admission, College Admission
Schilder, Diane; Sandstrom, Heather – Urban Institute, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented public health emergency that crippled the child care market in the United States. This crisis highlighted the essential role of the early care and education (ECE) workforce in the nation's economic stability and growth. The pandemic's disproportionate effect on Black, Hispanic, and Native American…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Leung, Cindy; Wolfson, Julia; Insolera, Noura; Cohen, Alicia – University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, 2021
Food insecurity, a condition of limited access to nutritious food, is a critical issue for college students' health and well-being. In this report, we present results from our project that examines the long-term effects of college students' food insecurity on future socioeconomic status, wealth, and food insecurity using nationally representative…
Descriptors: Hunger, Food, College Students, Socioeconomic Status
Jessie L. Tinoco – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative study was to investigate how early childhood care (ECCE) professionals make sense of their lived experiences working in an ECCE Department of Defense (DoD) program in the Southern United States. In this study, I incorporated Herzberg's two-factor theory of motivation to explore the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Incentives, Motivation, Decision Making
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Brankovic, Nina; Oruc, Nermin – European Journal of Education, 2016
This article analyses the differences between expected and actual wages of VET students and graduates. It uses a survey of VET students enrolled in schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and data about employed VET graduates from the Labour Force Survey. The model of determinants of wages, expected or actual, estimated separately on each dataset,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, Labor Market
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Staples, Julie; Lowe, S. Keith; Collum, Taleah H. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2022
Discussion and comparison of faculty salaries in academia is an ongoing research interest for all stakeholders in higher education. The intention of this research is to understand the differences in faculty salaries within five business classifications and across other academic subject areas. Various authors have examined different aspects of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials, Classification
Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, 2022
The Alaska Performance Scholarship (APS) is beginning its tenth year rewarding students who strive to excel in high school and continue their education in degree and certificate programs in Alaska. This report covers the high school, postsecondary, Alaska residency, and workforce outcomes of the APS program between 2011 - Fall 2019. [For…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Outcomes of Education, High School Graduates, Postsecondary Education
Powell, Anna; Chávez, Raúl; Austin, Lea; Montoya, Elena; Kim, Yoonjeon; Copeman Petig, Abby – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2022
This report provides a closer look at the well-being of the early care and education (ECE) workforce in California, using data collected by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) through the 2020 California Early Care and Education Workforce Study. For decades, low levels of public investment in this sector have kept the ECE…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Labor Force, COVID-19
Tinsley, Brian; Cacicio, Sarah; Shah, Zohal; Parker, Daniel; Younge, Odelia; Luke Luna, Christina – Digital Promise, 2022
This landscape report explores the impact of earning micro-credentials on the social mobility of rural learners. Through four in-depth case studies, we show how earning micro-credentials may lead to credential attainment, workforce entry, promotions, and/or economic improvements (e.g., salary increase, prioritizing learners impacted by poverty),…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Rural Areas, Rural Education, Rural Population
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Sibley F. Lyndgaard; Corey E. Tatel; Ruth Kanfer; Julia E. Melkers; Justin C. Sabree – Computer-Based Learning in Context, 2022
The disruptive effects of the COVID pandemic on vulnerable and/or minority demographic groups among 1) student populations and 2) persons employed in low wage sectors are well-established. This study examined whether disparity in the disruptive effects of the pandemic extend to adult learners employed in "bright prospect" sectors (e.g.,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Minority Group Students, Adult Students
Luis Christopher Armona – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation contains three essays discussing government policy in higher education, the effects of online social networks during college on students after graduating, and how to use search data as a tool to recover characteristics of both products and customers to estimate demand. In the first chapter, co-authored with Shengmao Cao, we study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Social Media
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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