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Scott-Clayton, Judith; Wen, Qiao – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2017
The increasing availability of massive administrative datasets linking postsecondary enrollees with post-college earnings records has stimulated a wealth of new research on the returns to college, and has accelerated state and federal efforts to hold institutions accountable for students' labor market outcomes. Many of these new research and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Comparative Analysis
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Malloy, Liam C. – Education Economics, 2015
Existing empirical work looking at the effects of parental income on IQ, schooling, wealth, race, and personality is only able to explain about half of the observed intergenerational income elasticity. This paper provides a possible behavioral explanation for this elasticity in which heterogeneous agents in sequential generations choose their…
Descriptors: Income, Generational Differences, Mobility, Educational Attainment
Scott-Clayton, Judith; Wen, Qiao – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2017
The increasing availability of massive administrative datasets linking postsecondary enrollees with post-college earnings records has stimulated a wealth of new research on the returns to college, and has accelerated state and federal efforts to hold institutions accountable for students' labor market outcomes. Many of these new research and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Comparative Analysis
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Srinivas, Sumati – Career Development International, 2009
Purpose: The aim of this article is to define a new kind of labor mobility called technological mobility, defined here as the different levels of technological change experienced by workers as they change jobs over the course of their career. Technological mobility is viewed as a form of career mobility, and it is hypothesized that moving to jobs…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Mobility, Occupational Mobility, Career Change
Lovenheim, Michael – Economic Mobility Project, 2011
A college degree often translates into economic success: Americans who start at the bottom of the income ladder "quadruple" their chances of making it to the top when they earn a four-year degree, according to past research by the Pew Economic Mobility Project. Nevertheless, many young people from the bottom and middle of the ladder…
Descriptors: Housing, Higher Education, Education Work Relationship, Mobility