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Benjamin Elliott Novak – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the root cause of the increased rate of employee turnover at a higher educational institution and how to retain their current employees. The importance of this study was to help the educational institution reduce their employee turnover so they do not continue to struggle to find new talent to replace…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Higher Education, Labor Market, Employees
Abraham, Lisa; Mulhern, Christine; Greer, Lucas – RAND Corporation, 2023
The U.S. manufacturing industry is experiencing a resurgence and faces a growing need for highly skilled workers. Recent reports project that demand for highly-skilled manufacturing workers will outpace supply in coming years, and this shortage may grow as the U.S. manufacturing industry grows and its labor needs shift. Furthermore, manufacturing…
Descriptors: Skilled Workers, Manufacturing Industry, Labor Supply, Postsecondary Education
Berhanu Mekonnen Yimer; Adane Hailu Herut; Mesfin Molla Demissie; Misganu Legesse Bareke; Birhanu Haile Agezew; Negash Haile Dedho; Mulugeta Fufa Lebeta – Cogent Education, 2024
To deal with the dynamic nature of global and socioeconomic conditions, it is critical to rethink the interplay between the efficiency of the higher education system and the employability outcomes of graduates. The purpose of this study was to investigate trends in undergraduate enrolment, graduation, and employment in Ethiopia. It looked at data…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Higher Education, Enrollment Trends, Graduation Rate
Sophie McGuinness – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Short-term certificate (STC) programs at community colleges represent a longstanding policy priority to align accelerated postsecondary credentials with job opportunities in local labor markets. Despite large investments in developing STCs, little evidence exists about where and when STCs are opened and whether community colleges open new programs…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Alignment (Education), Labor Market
Alisa Sproul Affleck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative study is to test the relationship between degree choice and post-graduate outcomes for students in the United States by describing the relationship between a selected major and post-graduate outcomes including employment sector, salary for women and men. As college costs rise, and enrollments fall for the first…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Decision Making, Labor Force, Education Work Relationship
Jennifer Kammerud; Kerry Lawton; Joshua Kundert – Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2025
The ongoing staffing challenges facing Wisconsin's schools continue to be rooted in retention. Wisconsin is producing more teachers than are retiring, and data suggests that if Wisconsin could retain its educators, along with more completers of educator preparation programs, this would significantly address the shortages schools are experiencing.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Labor Force, Labor Force Development, Teacher Persistence
Anthony P. Carnevale; Lulu Kam; Martin Van Der Werf – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024
Rural America has long been perceived as "left behind" by policies that leave it struggling while benefiting bustling urban cities and suburbs. That narrative holds some truth: rural America has a declining population, along with lower educational attainment and lower workforce participation than urban America. But while rural America…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Labor Force, Labor Force Development, Adults
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, 2021
The Council on Postsecondary Education (Council) is charged with guiding the reform efforts envisioned by state policy leaders in the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997 and is Kentucky's statewide postsecondary and adult education coordinating agency. To gain better insight into economic conditions and workforce trends,…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Postsecondary Education, Labor Market, Labor Force Development
Feng, Yun – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation studies the effects of China's higher education expansion reform on workers' labor market outcomes. In Chapter 1, I investigate how China's higher education expansion reform affects young workers' labor market outcomes. Using data from the 2005 China Population Survey, I estimate the effects of the reform using a diff-in-diff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Higher Education, Educational Development
Thi Hang Banh; Trang Hong Dao; Paul Glewwe; Giang Thai – Education Economics, 2024
Vietnam's economy and education system have had remarkable success in recent decades, yet there are concerns about the declining returns to higher education since 2008. We document this decline in returns to higher education and propose four hypotheses to explain it. Analysis of the VLSS/VHLSS and LFS data provides little evidence for three of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Labor Force, Employment Patterns
Jouni Helin; Kristian Koerselman; Terhi Nokkala; Taru Siekkinen; Timo Tohmo; Jutta Viinikainen; Jussi Välimaa – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
Tacit knowledge flows can be facilitated by employment transitions, such as for example the transitions of PhDs from university employment to industry. There are however barriers to transitions into and out of university employment, and as a consequence, such transitions are relatively rare. PhDs can circumvent the barriers to permanent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Graduate Students, Student Employment
Smith, Emma; White, Patrick – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Concerns over the supply of highly-skilled (HS) science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) workers are well established and have been a feature of policy discourse in the UK for more than 50 years. Since the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union, these concerns have been exacerbated by uncertainty about the movement of labour…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Graduates, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities
Goldan, Lea; Jaksztat, Steffen; Gross, Christiane – Research Evaluation, 2023
Previous research in different national contexts has shown that individual preferences for certain job attributes, objective labour market conditions, subjective career prospects, and external encouragement shape doctoral graduates' career decisions. For Germany, where the number of awarded doctoral degrees is highest within the European Union and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, College Graduates, Career Choice, Foreign Countries
Hunkerstorm, Louisa; Prescott, Brian – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
Recent years have seen accelerating interest in measuring the employment outcomes of recent college graduates. New data tools and research, such as the College Scorecard, increasingly sophisticated state-level data systems, and studies investigating students' long-term economic mobility, continue to roll out. While postgraduate wages have been an…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment, Wages, Geographic Location
Bartosek, Michele; Ford, Cristi; Gay, Kristen; McGuire, Abby; Swindell, Andrew; Thomas, Minzi A.; Weber, Nicole – Online Learning Consortium, 2023
Recent research describes a gap between the workforce skills employers need and the skills college graduates bring to the workforce. Making strides toward closing the workforce skills gap means that institutions, employers, and students must work together to cultivate a shared understanding of how strategic collaboration and communication are…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Communication Skills, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship