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From Theory to Practice : Field Experimental Evidence on Early Exposure of Engineering Majors to Professional Work
Boudreau, Kevin J. - 2019
Young workers typically enter the professional labor market only after completing higher education. We investigate how earlier professional work experience affects skilled worker development. In a field experiment, 1,787 Engineering majors were randomly assigned to 6-month work terms to begin...
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Are Recessions Good for Government Hires? The Effect of Unemployment on Public Sector Human Capital
Zhang, Congshan - 2018
persistent wage effect of entering government employment during recessions for recent college graduates and other new employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453178
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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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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...
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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market : An Experimental Study
Deming, David J.; Yuchtman, Noam; Abulafi, Amira; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2014
We study employers' perceptions of the value of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector and selectivity of institutions to fictitious resumes and apply to real vacancy postings for business and health jobs on a large online job board. We find that a business...
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Skills, Majors, and Jobs : Does Higher Education Respond?
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We quantify the magnitude and nature of response in the 4-year sector using a new measure of labor demand at the institution-major level that combines online job ads with geographic...
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Unlucky Cohorts : Estimating the Long-term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-sectional Data Sets
Schwandt, Hannes - 2018
This paper studies the differential persistent effects of initial economic conditions for labor market entrants in the United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using labor force survey data. We find persistent earnings and wage reductions especially for less advantaged...
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Training, Wages, and Sample Selection : Estimating Sharp Bounds on Treatment Effects
Lee, David S. - 2005
This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally-funded job training programs in the United States. Even with the aid of a randomized experiment, the impact of a training program on wages is difficult to study because of sample selection, a...
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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
Frisvold, David E. - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates : Challenges and Policy
Raphael, Steven - 2010
This paper analyzes the employment prospects of former prison inmates and reviews recent evaluations of reentry programs that either aim to improve employment among the formerly incarcerated or aim to reduce recidivism through treatment interventions centered on employment. I present an...
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