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Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates
Kennan, John - 2015
are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are … decisions of college graduates. The model is estimated using NLSY data, and used to quantify the sensitivity of migration and …
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Gainfully Employed? Assessing the Employment and Earnings of For-Profit College Students Using Administrative Data
Cellini, Stephanie Riegg - 2016
We draw on population-level administrative data from the U.S. Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service to quantify the impact of for-profit college attendance on the employment and earnings of over one million students. Using a matched comparison group difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990783
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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 four-year colleges, yet little systematic evidence exists on the returns to specific certificates and degrees. We estimate returns to CTE programs using administrative data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023341
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Where the Boys Aren'T : Non-Cognitive Skills, Returns to School and the Gender Gap in Higher Education
Jacob, Brian - 2021
graduates. Conditional on attendance, however, there are few differences in type of college, enrollment status or selectivity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221281
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Skill Biased Structural Change
Buera, Francisco J. - 2015
We document for a broad panel of advanced economies that increases in GDP per capita are associated with a shift in the composition of value added to sectors that are intensive in high-skill labor. It follows that further development in these economies leads to an increase in the relative demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022602
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The Price of Experience
Jeong, Hyeok - 2014
We identify a key role of factor supply, driven by demographic changes, in shaping several empirical regularities that are a focus of active research in macro and labor economics. In particular, demographic changes alone can account for the large movements of the return to experience over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047774
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Career Patterns of College Graduates in a Declining Job Market
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
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 longitudinal/cohort earnings profile for college graduates flattened … markedly relative to that for high school graduates in the 1970s. With smaller growth rates of earnings for the college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218829
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Are Lots of College Graduates Taking High School Jobs? A Reconsiderationof the Evidence
Tyler, John H.; Murnane, Richard J.; Levy, Frank S. - 2021
college graduates or for older (45-54 year old) female college graduates. For all these groups, real earnings increased during … the 1980s and the percentage in 'high school jobs' declined. The assertion is valid only for older male college graduates …. Young college graduates improved their labor market position during the 1980s by increasingly obtaining degrees in …
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Teaching, Teachers Pensions and Retirement Across Recent Cohorts of College Graduate Women
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - 2016
Labor force participation rates of college-educated women ages 60 to 64 increased by 20 percent (10 percentage points) between 2000 and 2010. One potential explanation for this change stems from the fact that fewer college-educated women in the more recent cohorts were ever teachers. This...
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Underemployment in the Early Careers of College Graduates Following the Great Recession
Abel, Jaison R. - 2016
graduates continued to climb, reaching highs not seen since the early 1990s. In this paper, we take a closer look at the jobs … held by underemployed college graduates in the early stages of their careers during the first few years after the Great … Recession. Contrary to popular perception, we show that relatively few recent graduates were working in low-skilled service jobs …
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