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Dena D. Slanda; Lisa Lachlan – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2023
Educators are faced with increasing student loan debt, increasing costs of becoming a teacher, and stagnant teacher salaries. Research suggests that the structural elements of the student loan system, including systemic barriers, may act as deterrents, preventing access and opportunity, especially in the teaching profession. The profession needs…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Cost Effectiveness, Paying for College, Student Financial Aid
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Paris, Susan – International Research and Review, 2019
Many higher education institutions seek to attract and retain diverse faculty in an effort to intentionally diversify college campuses and make them more inclusive. The development of a diverse faculty body that matches the diversity of the student body is crucial, but the representation of foreign-born people with doctoral degrees who are working…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Job Security
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Whittenburg, Holly N.; Cimera, Robert E.; Thoma, Colleen A. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2019
Previous research indicates that postsecondary educational experience (PSE) predicts successful employment outcomes for transition-aged youth with disabilities. Using data on supported employment services from the Rehabilitative Services Administration, this study compared employment rates and outcomes for young adults with Autism Spectrum…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Postsecondary Education, Employment Level
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Owusu-Kumih, Eric O.; Boateng, Fred; Loglo, Frank – Cogent Education, 2019
Transnational Education (TNE) has often been used as a measure to support the economic sustainability of the institution of higher learning involved. But in recent times, TNE has become one of the important avenues for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) to improve their International Students Portfolios without bringing the students to the HEI…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Sustainability, Higher Education
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Feinberg, Iris; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Ogrodnick, Michelle Mavreles – Adult Literacy Education, 2019
In the United States, worker health care is funded through health insurance plans paid for by employers. Insurance plans are written in complicated language that low wage earners (LWE), who have lower levels of education, may find difficult to understand. We examined the relationship between health insurance literacy (HIL), education, and literacy…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Literacy, Reading Skills, Educational Attainment
Yang, Edith; Aceves, Aurelia De La Rosa; Tomlinson, Gloria – MDRC, 2019
Workforce development organizations often find it challenging to assess how former program participants are faring in the labor market, since they need to rely on participants' willingness to report and verify their job placements after they either leave or complete their programs. The 2013 Unemployment Insurance Data Sharing Bill (S5773A) amended…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Labor Force Development, Data Use, Unemployment
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AL-Jadidi, Nadia Ahmed A. – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
Al-Ahsa Governorate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It also investigated the impact of job satisfaction on their professional commitment. To achieve the objectives of the study, quantitative and qualitative methods were used to verify the level of job satisfaction and its impact on professional commitment. To obtain relevant and sufficient data,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Early Childhood Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Persistence
Geralyn Agnes Janice – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Louisiana's community and technical colleges provide access to educational programs. However, access to opportunity is not enough for individuals such as low-income Black females due to the residual impact of educational practices and structural inequalities. However, provisional changes in federal funding legislation give states the flexibility…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Females, African American Students, Technical Institutes
Wilson, Franklin D. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2018
This paper presents an analysis of changes in occupational status and hourly earnings after workers experience a spell of nonemployment, during a period of stable but slow economic growth and a recessionary period. In addition, an effort is made to identify factors associated with changes in occupational status and hourly earnings, including a…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Wages, Employment, Unemployment
Corbett, Erin S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While recent research has focused on the relationship between educational attainment and recidivism for formerly incarcerated persons, less research has focused on the relationship between educational attainment/level and employment. This study employed mixed methods to examine data on post-release employment outcomes for ex-offenders from, and…
Descriptors: Criminals, Institutionalized Persons, Educational Attainment, Employment
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Soon, Jan-Jan; Lee, Angela Siew-Hoong; Lim, Hock-Eam; Idris, Izian; Eng, William Yong-Keong – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This paper uses a 2016/2017 sample of 1107 freshly minted university graduates from a public and a private university in Malaysia. Against a backdrop of an institutional setting very much different from that of western countries' and issues of high living costs and graduate unemployment, we analyse how academic performance affects graduates'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, College Graduates, Employment Potential
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Sten-Gahmberg, Susanna – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
In this paper, I study heterogeneity in graduate students' responses to financial incentives. The incentive was given by a student aid reform in Norway that was intended to increase the proportion of students who graduate on time by offering a reduction of their student loan. Using a difference-in-difference strategy and detailed Norwegian…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Incentives, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Kugler, Adriana D.; Silliman, Mikko I. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
We randomly assign applicants to over-subscribed programs to study the effects of teaching hard and soft skills in vocational training and examine their impacts on skills acquisition and labor market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. We find that providing vocational training that either emphasizes social or technical skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Vocational Education, Soft Skills
Mayne, Carrie – Utah System of Higher Education, 2020
Between Utah's strong economic measures and numerous nationally recognized achievements (i.e. Best States Rankings, Top States for Business 2019, Utah Ranks Among the Fastest Growing States in the Nation), it is clear that the state's economy has experienced one of the strongest expansions in the country. As Utah's economy prospers, the need for…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Economic Development, Labor Force Development, Higher Education
Baker, Bruce D.; Di Carlo, Matthew; Weber, Mark – Albert Shanker Institute, 2020
When it comes to American education, few policy areas are as misunderstood -- or as crucial -- as school finance. Over the past several years, a political and empirical consensus has emerged about the importance of equitable and adequate school funding for high quality K-12 education. In other words, the evidence is clear that money does, indeed,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Resource Allocation
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