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Heckman, James J. - 2010

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …

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Who Benefits from Obtaining a Ged? Evidence from High School and Beyond

Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B.; Tyler, John H. - 2021

This paper examines the value of the GED credential and the conventional high school diploma in explaining the earnings of 27-year-old males in the early 1990s. The data base is the High School & Beyond sophomore cohort. We replicate the basic findings of prior studies that implicitly assume the...

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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 …

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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 …

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The Importance of Being an Optimist : Evidence from Labor Markets

Kaniel, Ron - 2014

Dispositional optimism is a personality trait associated with individuals who believe, either rightly or wrongly, that in general good things tend to happen to them more often than bad things. Using a novel longitudinal data set that tracks the job search performance of MBA students, we show...

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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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From Theory to Practice : Field Experimental Evidence on Early Exposure of Engineering Majors to Professional Work

Boudreau, Kevin - 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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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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School-to-Career Programs and Transitions to Employment and Higher Education

Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna S. - 2021

The 1994 Federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) provided more than $1.5 billion over five years to support increased career preparation activities in the country's public schools. However, the STWOA was not re-authorized, so state governments face decisions about levels of funding...

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School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education : Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study

Furstenberg, Frank F.; Neumark, David - 2021

We study a set of programs implemented in Philadelphia high schools that focus on boosting post-secondary enrollment. These programs are less career oriented than traditional school-to-work programs, but are consistent with the broadening of the goals of school-to-work to emphasize...

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