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Vaughn, Lori D. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examined the relationship between student engagement in college and subsequent employment status and early career earnings in a public university. This study sought to understand whether or not student academic and social experiences in college are related to post-baccalaureate early career earnings. The literature review…
Descriptors: College Students, College Graduates, Learner Engagement, Careers
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Ma, Shaocong; Chen, Eva E.; Li, Hui – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
This multiple case study investigates the involvement of foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) in Hong Kong early childcare. Three middle-class families were chosen; one parent, one FDH, one teacher, and one preschool child within each family were interviewed. A grounded theory analysis approach was adopted to examine the interviews. Analyses revealed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Preschool Children, Beliefs
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Sellami, Sana; Verhaest, Dieter; Nonneman, Walter; Van Trier, Walter – Education Economics, 2020
Relying on data for Belgian graduates, we investigate the relationship between motives to participate in higher education (investment, educational consumption, student life consumption and social norms) and overeducation after graduation. We also examine whether these motives affect the relationship between overeducation and other outcomes like…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Job Satisfaction, Behavior Standards
Cowan, Benjamin W.; Tefft, Nathan – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
We investigate the relationship between college openings, college attainment, and health behaviors and outcomes later in life. Though a large prior literature attempts to isolate the causal effect of education on health via instrumental variables (IV), most studies use instruments that affect schooling behavior in childhood or adolescence, i.e.…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Access to Education, Health Behavior, Adults
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Moeke-Pickering, Taima, Ed.; Cote-Meek, Sheila, Ed.; Pegoraro, Ann, Ed. – IGI Global, 2020
Women in the Academy are raising issues of pay parity, equal representation on committees, increased leadership positions, stories of resilience, and mentorship espousing changes at all levels including teaching, research, and administration. These strategies demand interrogation, and larger questions are being asked about the place of women…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Equal Education, Inclusion
Paul, S.; Rogers, S.; Bach, S.; Houtenville, A. J. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2023
The "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" and its complement, the "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" (ED628631), are summaries of statistics about people with disabilities and about the government programs which serve them. The Compendium, presents key overall statistics on topics including the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Postsecondary Education, Employment Level, Students with Disabilities
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Jennifer L. Steele – Education Economics, 2024
The question of why postsecondary institutions produce different labor market outcomes is difficult to answer due to unobserved student characteristics. Here, I leverage students' geographic proximity to three classifications of postsecondary institutions -- earnings-enhancing, competitive, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Black Colleges, Selective Admission, Institutional Characteristics
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Lucy Sibanda; Tracey Herman – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Textbooks socialise and legitimise cultural norms, and therefore, learners' social worlds should find expression in their textbooks. In the study reported on here we examined how Grade 4 English First Additional Language and life skills textbooks reflected learner diversity in South African schools as manifested in their racial, gender,…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Diversity, Content Analysis, Grade 4
Olmedo, Carlos; Ward, Peter M. – Texas Education Research Center, 2018
This study assesses the human capital development and wage performance of low-income students from geographically isolated and substandard housing settlements known as colonias. The research follows Texas high school students from the classroom to employment over a span of two decades and, specifically, tracks the three border regions where most…
Descriptors: High School Students, Low Income Students, Outcomes of Education, Education Work Relationship
Durham, Rachel E.; Connolly, Faith – Baltimore Education Research Consortium, 2018
This brief is the second in Baltimore Education Research Consortium's (BERC's) "Launching into Adulthood" series, which examines the trajectories of Baltimore graduates over six years. BERC established a partnership with Baltimore's Promise and the Maryland Longitudinal Data System, which has made it possible to examine both college and…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Wages, Income, College Attendance
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Rabossi, Marcelo – Higher Education Policy, 2021
The dual labor market theory (DLM) posited the existence of two distinct labor markets working in parallel. A primary one is a place where high wages, employment stability and high opportunities for advancement are the norms. On the other hand, low wages, arbitrariness and less desirable working conditions determine a secondary market. The main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Labor Market
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Zuluaga, Blanca; Ortiz, Marianella; Vergara-Figueroa, Aurora – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
This article explores Belman and Heywood's sheepskin effect hypothesis using a modified Mincerian wage equation to test the sheepskin effect of returns on education in Colombia. This analysis is based on the 2014 Living Standards Survey from the National Department of Statistics. It includes variables that capture the possession of different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Blacks, Females
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Roessger, Kevin M.; Liang, Xinya; Weese, James; Parker, Daniel – Journal of Correctional Education, 2021
Using all Arkansas correctional releases from 2005-2016 of adults who at intake lacked high school diplomas or GEDs, the authors examined how correctional education and its moderating factors affect recidivism (N = 32,174) and post-release employment (N = 40,667). Completion of GED and vocational programs were associated with financially viable…
Descriptors: Adults, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
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An, Weihua; N. Glynn, Adam – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition (BOD) is a popular method for studying the contributions of explanatory factors to social inequality. The results have often been given causal interpretations. While recent work and this article both show that some types of BOD are equivalent to a counterfactual-based treatment effect/selection bias decomposition,…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Measurement Techniques, Statistical Bias, Guidelines
Troutman, David R.; Creusere, Marlena – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
A postsecondary credential is associated with higher levels of earnings, not just in the short term, but over a lifetime. Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce found that college graduates earn more than one million dollars more in lifetime wages, compared to high school graduates. However, many factors influence…
Descriptors: Employment, Salary Wage Differentials, College Graduates, Majors (Students)
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