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Eric Brunner; Shaun Dougherty; Stephen Ross – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
Participation in Career Technical Education (CTE) programs has been proposed as a valuable strategy for supporting transition to independence among students with disabilities. We exploit a discontinuity created by admissions thresholds from a statewide system of CTE high schools. Our findings suggest attending CTE high schools has large positive…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Students with Disabilities, High School Students, Transitional Programs
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Carla García-Fernández; Janette Durán-Aguirre; Carrie Lou Bloom; Jeffrey Levi Palmer; Jonah Winninghoff – Grantee Submission, 2024
This report is an overview of the postsecondary experiences of multiracial Latinx deafblind, deafdisabled, and deaf adults in the United States that draws from data from the American Community Survey (ACS).
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Hispanic Americans, Deafness, Deaf Blind
Ferreyra, Maria Marta; Galindo, Camila; Urzúa, Sergio S. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher education otherwise) and the diversion margin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
Meza, Elizabeth; Love, Ivy – New America, 2023
Community college bachelor's (CCB) programs have only existed for a few decades, yet now reach 25 states. Since 1989, both state policies allowing these programs and the number of CCB programs itself has grown steadily. A body of research on CCBs is growing in the wake of changing state policy and the growth of new programs. This literature review…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, Student Diversity, Racial Differences
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Thoresen, Stian H.; Cocks, Errol; Parsons, Richard – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
People with disabilities in Australia face significant employment barriers. Research and policy initiatives over the past fifteen years have consistently emphasised the benefits of vocational education and training generally, and apprenticeship and traineeships specifically, as leading to positive vocational pathways and employment outcomes for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Outcomes of Education
OECD Publishing, 2021
Understanding the gender dynamics in educational transitions can help target policies to support equitable access to education as well as its quality and labour-market outcomes. In almost all OECD countries, the gender gap in favour of women is wider in tertiary education than at upper secondary level. Differences in programme orientation and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Social Influences
Vaughn, Lori D. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examined the relationship between student engagement in college and subsequent employment status and early career earnings in a public university. This study sought to understand whether or not student academic and social experiences in college are related to post-baccalaureate early career earnings. The literature review…
Descriptors: College Students, College Graduates, Learner Engagement, Careers
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Sten-Gahmberg, Susanna – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
In this paper, I study heterogeneity in graduate students' responses to financial incentives. The incentive was given by a student aid reform in Norway that was intended to increase the proportion of students who graduate on time by offering a reduction of their student loan. Using a difference-in-difference strategy and detailed Norwegian…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Incentives, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs
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Barry, Abdourahmane – Educational Planning, 2021
The aim of this study was to investigate the status of equal opportunity in education and employment in Saudi Arabia. Analyses of existing data show that the country has made a remarkable progress in educational enrollment at all levels (K-12 and higher education). However, challenges remain in terms of academic achievement for males,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Elementary Secondary Education
Gould, Elise; Mokhiber, Zane; Wolfe, Julia – Economic Policy Institute, 2019
Fallout from the Great Recession did a lot of damage to the employment prospects of young adults just entering the workforce after graduating from high school or college--and that damage persisted well into the recovery. In this study, the authors analyze data on recent young college graduates (ages 21-24) to learn about the Class of 2019's…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Graduate Study, Employment Level, Unemployment
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Galbraith, Quinn; Kelley, Heather; Groesbeck, Michael – College & Research Libraries, 2018
Racial equality has been of great importance to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), as seen through various initiatives. However, in recent years, little research has been done regarding the racial wage gap in ARL libraries. Researchers used thirty-five years of raw ARL salary survey data to examine the wage gap between racial minorities…
Descriptors: Wages, Research Libraries, Racial Differences, Salaries
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Meza, Elizabeth Apple; Bragg, Debra D. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
Community and technical colleges in Washington state were early adopters in the growing trend to offer bachelor's degrees, actively expanding these degrees over the last 15 years. This study describes the evolving state policy landscape on community college baccalaureate (CCB) degrees in Washington in certain programs previously classified as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, State Policy, Vocational Education
Tyler Remick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation focuses on microeconomic topics in the fields of public, labor and education. Particularly, this dissertation evaluates state policies in higher education and develops a global measure for job quality. Chapter 1 studies how state merit aid programs affect undergraduate degrees earned in Science, Technology, Engineering and…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, State Policy, Higher Education, Bachelors Degrees
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Meza, Elizabeth Apple; Bragg, Debra D. – Community College Research Initiatives, 2020
This study examines employment and earnings outcomes for Bachelor's of Applied Science (BAS) degree-holders who graduated from a Washington community and technical college baccalaureate (CCB) program in business, computer and information sciences, healthcare, and visual and performing arts. These graduates are compared to graduates from public…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Employment Level, Wages, College Graduates
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Meza, Elizabeth Apple; Bragg, Debra D. – Community College Research Initiatives, 2020
This study examines the employment and earnings of Washington Bachelor's of Applied Science (BAS) graduates in business, computer and information sciences, healthcare, and visual and performing arts. Complimenting research by Kaikkonen (2020), we report results of two studies that find high employment match rates and increasing annualized earnings…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Employment Level, Wages, College Graduates
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