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Kate Alexander; Stephen Evans; Tony Wilson – Learning and Work Institute, 2022
One in seven people of working age in England live in social housing. Partly because of how the limited supply of social housing is allocated, tenants are more diverse than the population as a whole and more likely to live in relative poverty. Strategies to tackle the big workforce, growth, cost of living and inequality challenges the country…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Housing, Poverty, Labor Force Development
Francisca M. Antman; Brian Duncan; Michael F. Lovenheim – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US Census and American Community Survey, we use a difference-in-differences framework to compare the college degree completion, graduate degree completion,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Educational Discrimination, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Gender Discrimination
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Pedro J. Hernández – Cogent Education, 2024
This study aims at analyzing the gender gap in salaries observed in Spanish public universities. It focuses on the glass ceiling problem and quantifies its importance in the gender earnings gap. This article shows that most of the gender earnings gap observed among the faculty of the University of Murcia is due to a glass ceiling problem in…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Gender Discrimination, Universities, Gender Issues
Yoonjeon Kim; Lea J. E. Austin; Hopeton Hess – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2024
Despite the crucial role early educators play in young children's development, the field has always struggled with poor compensation and inadequate support (McLean et al., 2021). The persistent undervaluation of the ECE sector and the labor provided by the nearly all-female workforce can be traced back to its racist roots, when enslaved Black…
Descriptors: Racism, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Child Care Centers
Cathy Grace; Kathy Thornburg; Sheerah Neal Keith; Max Altman; Allison Boyle – Southern Education Foundation, 2024
Head Start programs in many of the states with higher rates of children living in poverty have received less per-child funding allocations than programs in states with lower rates of children living in poverty for years. Further, the educators who teach these children are vastly underpaid, and their pay is also inequitable among states and…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Resource Allocation
Bernard C. Reyes – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While higher education has been known as the great equalizer, the racial wealth gap of college graduates is overlooked: Among college-educated households (2013) the median net worth was $359,928 for white households; $250,637 for Asian households; $49,606 for Hispanic households; and $32,780 households for Black households. Although MSIs…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Race, Educational Attainment, Racial Differences
Kochhar, Rakesh – Pew Research Center, 2020
This report examines the impact of the changing landscape for job skills on gender disparities in the U.S. labor market. The analysis is based on job skills and preparation data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*NET), specifically Version 23, released August 2018, and Version 5.1, released November 2003. O*NET…
Descriptors: Females, Employed Women, Job Skills, Labor Market
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Rauner, Mary; Goss, Michael; Huang, Min; Meyer, Luke; Torre Gibney, Thomas – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2020
Expected growth in the population of rural areas of California and in the number of jobs in middle-skill occupations has increased interest in the alignment of middle-skill workforce supply and occupational demand, particularly in rural regions. This study focuses on that alignment in four rural regions of the state: Central Valley and Mother Lode…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, Rural Areas, Employment Opportunities, Postsecondary Education
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Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2020
This study snapshot presents the key findings from the full study on the alignment of middle-skill workforce supply and occupational demand across four rural regions in California to help stakeholders strengthen the economy in rural parts of the state. The four rural regions in the study are Central Valley and Mother Lode North, Central Valley and…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, Rural Areas, Employment Opportunities, Postsecondary Education
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Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2020
These are the appendixes for the report, "Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in Rural California in 2018-20." The study focuses on the alignment of middle-skill workforce supply and occupational demand across four rural regions in California (Central Valley and Mother Lode North, Central Valley and Mother Lode South, Northern…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, Rural Areas, Employment Opportunities, Postsecondary Education
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Yamada, Shoko; Otchia, Christian S. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2022
The paper contributes to the discussion of the effects of educational attainment and skills on labour market outcomes, especially in a fast-growing economy. The data are derived through the authors' unique skills assessment of 591 workers at 19 foreign-invested garment-production companies in Ethiopia, which allows for the analysis of the impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Job Skills, Labor Market
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Clarke, Rachel Ivy; Stanton, Katerina Lynn; Grimm, Alexandra; Zhang, Bo – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Academic libraries face mounting pressure to demonstrate their value to stakeholders, yet traditional assessments of their financial value ignore the work of librarians and library staff in producing usable collections and services for patrons. Through a survey of US academic library workers, we examine the range, scope, and financial value of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Labor, Measurement, Barriers
Raine, Olivia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Low-wage compensation for employees has far-reaching adverse implications in the work environment. This qualitative exploratory case study explored the influence of low wage compensation on employee motivation in a higher learning institution in the state of Mississippi. The problem addressed was the impact of low wages on employee motivation in…
Descriptors: Low Income, Wages, Compensation (Remuneration), Employee Attitudes
Hill, Connor – Utah System of Higher Education, 2022
This report analyzes the descriptive outcomes for students with disabilities (SWDs) from schools overseen by the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) who enrolled in postsecondary institutions. Data provided by USBE, the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE), and the Department of Workforce Services (DWS) allowed for the examination of metrics…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Outcomes of Education, College Bound Students, College Attendance
Donovan, Sarah A.; Stoll, Adam; Bradley, David H.; Collins, Benjamin – Congressional Research Service, 2022
This report is a response to congressional requests for the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to identify, synthesize, and explain the core components of the workforce skills gap discourse and, to the extent possible, explore and clarify evidence on the existence of skills gaps. The report acknowledges that the skills gap label is often applied…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Labor Force, Educational Attainment
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