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Knocking on the door to the teaching profession? : modeling the entry of prospective teachers into the workforce

Goldhaber, Daniel D.; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy - In: Economics of education review 43 (2014), pp. 106-124

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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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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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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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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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Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies

Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2008

In a labor market hierarchy, promotions are affected by the noisiness of information about the candidates. I study the hypothesis that males are more risk taking than females, and its implications for rates of promotion and abilities of survivors. I define promotion hierarchies with and without...

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Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States : Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Bjelland, Melissa - 2008

We use administrative data linking workers and firms to study employer-to-employer flows. After discussing how to identify such flows in quarterly data, we investigate their basic empirical patterns. We find that the pace of employer-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of...

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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession : Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates

Oreopoulos, Philip - 2006

careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In contrast, a vast range of alternative career … university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999, and uses its results to assess the importance of alternative career models …

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The Macro-Foundations of Microeconomics : Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists

Oyer, Paul - 2006

Each year, graduate students entering the academic job market worry that they will suffer due to uncontrollable macroeconomic risk. Given the importance of general human capital and the relative ease of publicly observing productivity in academia, one might expect unlucky graduating cohorts'...

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