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Heather Sandstrom; Eve Mefferd; Laura Jimenez Parra; Victoria Nelson; Justin Doromal; Erica Greenberg; Elli Nikolopoulos; Rachel Lamb; Alicia Gonzalez – Urban Institute, 2024
Early childhood educators play an essential role in providing child care for families and learning and development supports for young children, yet they have long faced challenges due to low wages. Recognizing this, the District of Columbia (DC) introduced the Early Childhood Pay Equity Fund in 2022. This first-of-its-kind initiative aims to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Comparable Worth, Well Being, Mental Health
Lee, Yujin; Zeng, Songtian; Douglass, Anne; Reyes, Arazeliz; Johnson, Nicole – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Low pay and unequal wages make it hard to recruit and retain the high-quality early educators that young children need to thrive in early care and education (ECE) programs. Not only are early educator wages lower than those of comparable workers, but there may also be racial and ethnic wage disparities within the ECE workforce. Using a…
Descriptors: Race, Ethnicity, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Salaries
Chen, Rong; Smith, Katie N. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2023
Based on combined data from Baccalaureate & Beyond (B&B:16/17), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, this study utilizes zero-inflated beta regression methods and analyzes individual and institutional factors that predict debt burden by gender. Results show that women are less…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Financial Aid, Debt (Financial), Individual Characteristics
Jennifer Schneider; Jacqueline Bichsel – College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, 2024
We use CUPA-HR data to analyze representation and pay equity for women and racial/ethnic minorities in higher education full-time faculty from 2016-17 to 2022-23, across tenure status, rank, discipline, and total operating expenses of institutions. Results indicate that, despite some growth in the representation of women and faculty of color in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Equity (Finance)
Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Doménech, Rafael – Education Economics, 2021
This paper revisits the relationship between human capital and income inequality, using an updated data set on human capital inequality and a novel database on earnings inequality. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between these two inequality indicators, but with significant differences across countries regarding the turning point.…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Income, Salary Wage Differentials, Technological Advancement
Bershadsky, Julie, Ed. – Institute on Community Integration, 2021
This brief contains findings from a recent study exploring direct support professionals (DSPs) providing support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of finding and keeping quality DSPs in a field that has experienced high turnover for decades. This problem is exacerbated…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Research, Wages, Salary Wage Differentials
Sutton Trust, 2022
Engineering is a large and diverse sector which is vital for the UK economy. It represents a considerable proportion of the UK workforce, with 18% of the UK working population based in engineering and at least 15% of the working population in every region in jobs that relate to the sector. Engineering also has a relatively strong reputation for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Diversity
Kathryn R. Blaha; David De Jong – Education Leadership Review, 2022
Salary differences between male and female superintendents start at the beginning of their careers and continue throughout employment (Biasi & Sarsons, 2022; Blau & Kahn, 2017). This practice draws attention to the lack of gender equity, as evidenced by the unequal distribution of power, wealth, and benefits between males and females…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Salary Wage Differentials, Salaries, Gender Differences
Panagiotis Arsenis; Miguel Flores – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This study contributes theoretically and empirically to our understanding of students' transition from work placement to the graduate labour market, by exploring earning differentials due to heterogeneous job transitions. We developed a theoretical framework that underpins the relationships between work placement, job transition and graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Economics Education, Job Placement
Lalley, Christopher; McInally, Lauren – Journal of Education and Work, 2023
We examine the relationship between secondary school attainment and early-career graduate salaries in the UK. Based on literature on grade inflation, we hypothesise that there is uncertainty regarding the quality of the signal communicated by degree classifications, and that secondary school grades can be used as a tool to determine the veracity…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic)
Lasater, Robert S.; Joseph, Anny-Claude; Cummiskey, Kevin – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2023
In this paper, we provide instructors with an approach for a classroom activity for students in an introductory data science or statistics course who have little or no statistical programming experience. We designed this activity to help students improve their statistical literacy while exploring a social justice problem-the gender wage gap. To…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Salary Wage Differentials, Visual Aids, Statistics Education
Wilder Research, 2023
In June 2021, the Minnesota Legislature appropriated significant investments in child care, using $537 million in Child Care and Development Funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARP). Investments included: $304 million in direct payments to providers through Child Care Stabilization Grants; $22.5 million for Child Care Facility Grants…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Investment, Salary Wage Differentials
Tuor Sartore, Simone N.; Backes-Gellner, Uschi – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
This study analyzes how worker pay is related to educational diversity, i.e., diversity in the educational composition of work groups in terms of the different types of vocational and academic education. As previous research shows that various types of diversity have positive effects in the workplace, a positive effect due to 'educational…
Descriptors: Diversity, Educational Attainment, Salary Wage Differentials, Income
Choi, Sun-Ki; Hur, Hyungjo – Education Economics, 2020
This study analyzes college graduates in the workplace to evaluate the effects of horizontal mismatches between education and jobs on wages and mobility. Using the Heckman-Lee and probit models, this study shows that a gender wage gap still exists. However, the size of the gender wage differential depends on the extent of mismatch. Specifically,…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Wages, Labor Turnover
Whitney Vetter – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine educator perspective of merit-based pay to determine if merit-based pay is an effective option for closing the teacher pay gap while motivating teachers to enter and remain in the field of education. The study was conducted by administering questionnaires to 20 participants. The study found that educators…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Merit Pay, Teacher Attitudes, Salary Wage Differentials