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Download full textJacobson, Louis; LaLonde, Robert J.; Sullivan, Daniel – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2003
This paper estimates the returns to retraining for older displaced workers--those 35 or older--by estimating the impact that community college schooling has on their subsequent earnings. Our analysis relies on longitudinal administrative data covering workers who were displaced from jobs in Washington State during the first half of the 1990s and…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Retraining
Jacobson, Louis; LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel G. – 2002
This study examines the earnings histories of displaced workers in the state of Washington. The study sample included approximately 97,000 workers who had three or more years of job tenure when they were permanently laid off from their jobs between 1990 and 1994. About 16,000 of the workers in the sample earned some community college credit by…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Community Colleges, Dislocated Workers, Education Work Relationship
