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Brian Holzman; Jeehee Han; Bethany Lewis; Irina Chukhray – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This study investigates the role of college major choices in labor market outcomes, with a focus on racial minorities and immigrants. Drawing upon research on school-to-work linkages, we examine two measures, "linkage" -- the connection between college majors and specific occupations in the labor market -- and "match" -- the…
Descriptors: Race, Minority Groups, Immigrants, Labor Market
Rothstein, Jesse; Whitmore Schanzenbach, Diane – Grantee Submission, 2022
Card and Krueger (1992a,b) used labor market outcomes to study the productivity of school spending. Following their lead, we examine effects of post-1990 school finance reforms on students' educational attainment and labor market outcomes. Using a state-by-cohort panel design, we find that reforms increased high school completion and…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Educational Change, High School Graduates, College Attendance
Fry, Rick; Kennedy, Brian; Funk, Cary – Pew Research Center, 2021
For this report, the authors analyzed federal government data to look at gender, racial and ethnic diversity among those employed in and earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Analysis of the STEM workforce is based solely on occupation, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 and 2000 U.S. decennial censuses…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Disproportionate Representation, Federal Government