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Beaulieu, Lionel J.; Barfield, Melissa A.; Stone, Katherine L. – Rural America, 2001
The percentage of high school graduates in the rural South improved during the 1990s but lagged behind urban figures; the percentage of rural college graduates grew slightly. Rural-urban differences in educational attainment were even greater among minorities. The rural-urban income gap also widened and is not expected to improve, with few new…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison, Employment Patterns
Henry, Mark S.; Lewis, Willis – Rural America, 2001
During the 1990s, the South reduced welfare caseloads more than other regions, most likely due to a strong metropolitan economy. However, poverty, low levels of human capital investment, and a sluggish job market persist in many rural areas of the South, and participation in welfare programs would likely increase in an economic recession. Public…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Educational Needs, Human Capital, Labor Market
Lawton, Stephen B.; Tzalalis, Theodore – Education Canada, 1994
A review of five sets of educational goals reveals an emphasis on academic and social goals over economic goals. This contrasts with current concerns for the economic utility of education and for increased accountability. Primary agents for achieving both academic and economic goals are strong central control of objectives but school-based…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Educational Attainment, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
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Averett, Susan L.; Burton, Mark L. – Economics of Education Review, 1996
Examines gender differences in college attendance decisions, employing National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data. Uses a human-capital model stressing family characteristics and expected future earnings differential between college and high school graduates. The higher the college wage premium, the more likely men are to attend college. Women's…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, High School Graduates
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Honig, Benson – Comparative Education Review, 1996
In Jamaica, structural adjustment policies have severely limited employment opportunities in the formal sector, and approximately 40% of the labor force engages in "informal" self-employment. Interviews with 250 self-employed microentrepreneurs revealed that effects on income of experience and various types of education differed between…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Status Comparison, Elementary Secondary Education, Entrepreneurship
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Wilson, John; Musick, Marc – Social Science Quarterly, 1998
Outlines a theory of how social capital contributes to volunteering, hypothesizing that social capital has a stronger effect on volunteering among people with more human capital and socioeconomic status. Specifies a test (of the effects) of social capital on volunteering and discusses the findings (of the test) in detail. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Background, Higher Education, Human Capital, Interpersonal Relationship
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Hy, Ronald John – Journal of Education Finance, 2000
Explores economic effects of increased educational expenditures on a state's economy, based on a proposal to shift $50 million from noneducational services to public education in the Arkansas state budget. This would generate a net gain of $13.1 million in total personal income and a $1 million net revenue gain. (Contains 17 footnotes.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Budgets, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
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McNeal, Ralph B., Jr. – Social Science Quarterly, 1999
Examines the influence of school attributes, such as pupil/teacher ratio and emphasis on academic achievement, on student participation in high school extracurricular activities. Reveals that the size, school climate, and social milieu of the school affect student involvement in extracurricular activities. (CMK)
Descriptors: Athletics, Educational Environment, Extracurricular Activities, High Schools
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Aurini, Janice; Davies, Scott – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
Homeschooling is enjoying new-found acceptance in North America. Drawing on a variety of secondary sources and our own data from Ontario, Canada, we find that homeschooling is growing steadily, and is becoming an increasingly legitimated form of education. To understand these changes, we review prevailing sociological explanations that focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Human Capital, Private Education
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Parrado, Emilio A. – Social Forces, 2005
This paper compares men's career opportunities and intra-generational class mobility across periods with markedly different development strategies in Mexico. Despite its significance for social stratification and inequality in Mexico, research on mobility has been relatively scant in recent decades. Using data from the National Retrospective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities, Social Stratification, Males
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Malen, Betty; Rice, Jennifer King – Educational Policy, 2004
This article offers a framework for assessing how education policy initiatives may affect a school's capacity to improve its performance. Drawing on the theoretical literature regarding school capacity and case studies of high-stakes accountability policies, the authors develop and illustrate a framework that includes both a resource dimension and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Academic Achievement
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Spillane, James P.; Hallett, Tim; Diamond, John B. – Sociology of Education, 2003
Uses observations and interviews with Chicago (Illinois) public school elementary teachers (n=84) to examine how forms of capital are a basis for instructional leadership. Argues that teachers recognize leaders based on human, cultural, social and economic capital. Explains that understanding capital in construction of leadership helps support…
Descriptors: Administrators, Economic Factors, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Schools
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Bozbura, F. Tunc – Learning Organization, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to define the elements of intellectual capital of firms in Turkey and to empirically investigate the relationship between intellectual capital and market value of firms in Istanbul Stock Exchange. To create a suitable intellectual capital measurement model for this study, a wide literature research was made. In almost…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Human Capital, Intellectual Property
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Bills, David B. – Review of Educational Research, 2003
The empirical relationship between educational attainment and credentials with socioeconomic attainment is well established, but why this relationship arises remains in doubt. The author of this article discusses seven types of middle-range theories meant to explain the relationship: human capital, screening (including filtering), signaling,…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Credentials, Human Capital, Employment Level
Wilson, Steven F. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008
Teachers may be the most important element of an effective school, but does that mean that K-12 improvement must wait on the ability of schools or systems to recruit, nurture, and retain outstanding teachers? Such a strategy implies that widespread excellence hinges on the ability of publicly funded school systems to attract more than 3.3 million…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Charter Schools, School Culture, Teacher Recruitment
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