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Labor Markets and Evaluations of Vocational Training Programs in the Public High Schools - Toward a Framework for Analysis

Gustman, Alan L. - 1980

A simplified model is constructed to analyze the role played by vocational training programs In high schools. The model assumes that there are two kinds of educational programs in high schools, vocational and general. It also assumes that there are two types of jobs for high school graduates....

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Career Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from California Community Colleges

Stevens, Ann Huff - 2015

Career technical education (CTE) programs at community colleges are increasingly seen as an attractive alternative to …

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Worklife Determinants of Retirement Income Differentials Between Men and Women

Levine, Phillip J. - 1999

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in different jobs than men of the same age. This study examines whether these differences in work-life experiences help explain why many women end up with lower levels of retirement...

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Gronau, Reuben - 1982

Sex-related wage differentials are almost universal. Economists traditionally tend to attribute a major fraction of the differential to the difference in on-the-job training. This difference is in turn often explained by the lower profitability of this investment for women who plan to interrupt...

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Career Patterns of College Graduates in a Declining Job Market

Freeman, Richard B. - 1981

This study uses Current Population Survey cohort data and the National Longitudinal Survey for men aged 14-24 in 1966 to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market for graduates. The principal finding is that the...

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The Long-Term Effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers : Evidence from U.S. Tax Data

Bailey, Martha J. - 2019

This paper uses IRS tax data to evaluate the short- and long-term effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (PFLA) on women's careers. Our research design exploits the increased availability of paid leave for women giving birth in the third quarter of 2004 (just after PFLA was...

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Leaning In or Not Leaning Out? Opt-Out Choice Framing Attenuates Gender Differences in the Decision to Compete

He, Joyce - 2019

In most organizations, promotions often require self-nomination and competition among applicants. However, research on gender differences in preferences for competition suggests that this process might result in fewer women choosing to participate. We study whether changing promotion schemes...

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Transitions From Career Employment Among Public- and Private-Sector Workers

Quinn, Joseph F. - 2018

Our paper examines how private- and public-sector workers transition from career employment to complete labor force … determinants of each pathway to retirement using longitudinal data on four cohorts of private- and public-sector career older … workers from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Our findings suggest that the prevalence of work after leaving career …

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The Mommy Track Divides : The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Differing Skill Levels

Wilde, Elizabeth Ty - 2010

This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill and timing. Past work has often …

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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...

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