Theory suggests that strategic compensation can not only serve as a powerful motivational incentive to increase worker performance, but also improve the composition of the workforce through the attraction and retention of high performers and discouragement of lesser performers from entering or staying in the profession. This study tests the…

Teacher shortage is a major hindrance to China's rural education growth in underdeveloped areas, as well as one of the main causes of educational injustice. We conducted a survey of 5,554 teachers from 117 towns in H province in the Wuling Mountains Zone to investigate the issue of rural school teacher supply. From geographical, emotional, and…

Researchers and policymakers argue that expanding college access is one way to increase opportunities for students who would become the first in their families to enroll in a postsecondary institution. This article uses measures of educational attainment in the previous two generations to consider whether parents' own histories of educational…

Reviews educational and occupational status and income as indicators of improvements in the socioeconomic status of Chinese American males during the 1960s. Calls for further research on the persistent income lag between Chinese and White men. (GC)

Using the Poisson regression approach, this paper analyzes 1982 Panel Study of Income Dynamics data on 736 household heads to determine the influence of education on labor and geographic mobility are governed by different behavioral mechanisms. A high educational attainment level inhibits labor mobility, but increases geographic mobility. Includes…

Examines the policies of the "buy-back" provisions of the retirement systems of all the states in the nation and draws implications for minority educators. (EF)

Explores changes in the distribution of the pretax wages and salaries of individuals between 1960 and 1980. Examines a series of possible explanations of increasing inequality, rejecting some as unimportant and finding others responsible for some parts of increases in inequality. (JOW)

Reports the results of testing a microeconomic model of the effects of fringe benefits on labor mobility. Results indicate that the probability of worker mobility drops 20 percent when a pension promise is made to male workers. Females' response is somewhat less. Other fringes affect turnover less strongly. (CT)

The United States is mobile society, and mobility is evident in the jobs people hold. From one year to the next, almost 1 worker in 5 enters or returns to an occupation that he/she did not work in 12 months earlier. A worker's age, sex, race, and ethnicity influence likelihood of changing occupations. (Contains detailed data tables.) (JOW)

Data from the January 1987 Current Population Survey are presented on (1) number of workers who voluntarily changed occupations; (2) number who did so within their employing organization; and (3) voluntary exit and entry rates within an organization by occupational group. (SK)

This detailed look at the data on job tenure and mobility shows that tenure with an employer as well as occupational mobility are strongly related to the age of workers. The rate at which women change occupations has increased substantially over the past two decades. (SK)

Substantial differences in occupational employment by gender still remain. The degree of these differences varies according to factors such as educational attainment and age. (Author)

More than half of the 10 million workers who switched occupations in 1986 did so because of better pay, working conditions, or advancement opportunities; however, about 1 in 8 workers changed occupations because they lost their previous jobs. (Author)

Uses AAUP data to analyze faculty turnover at American colleges and universities. Data analysis over a 20-year period highlights remarkably stable faculty retention rates nationwide and little variance across broad categories of institutions. Higher compensation levels appear to increase retention rates for assistant and associate professors, but…

This paper presents an empirical analysis of earnings differentials among male Hispanic immigrants in the United States. The principal finding of the study is that there are major differences in the rate of economic mobility of the various Hispanic groups. (Author/CT)