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Cheslock, John J.; Jaquette, Ozan – Research in Higher Education, 2022
As the financial challenges facing the U.S higher education industry mount, colleges and universities seek new activities that can improve their financial situation. Online education programs are often viewed as a promising option due to growing student interest and the substantial net revenue generated by early entrants that leveraged economies…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Educational Demand, Enrollment Trends
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Davis Vo; Cecilia Rios-Aguilar – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: Community college baccalaureate (CCB) programs are expanding across the nation, particularly in California--home of the largest and most ethnically/racially diverse community college system in the nation. CCB programs provide many benefits, two of which include providing an accessible and affordable pathway towards baccalaureate…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, College Applicants, Labor Force Development
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Andrea Parma; Tommaso Agasisti; Costanzo Ranci – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
In Italy, parents are free to choose the primary school for their children without restrictions imposed by catchment areas. This freedom of choice, inspired by quasi-market mechanisms, aims to foster competition between schools and raise educational standards. Analysing the case of Milan using regression models and administrative data for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Elementary School Students, Elementary Education
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Darr, Benjamin J.; Cohen, Alexander H. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2016
Sociologists have long recognized the utility of modified forms of Monopoly as tools for teaching about social stratification within the United States. We present an adaptation of Monopoly to help instructors teach students how capitalism plays out in a liberalizing world economy. By taking on roles as CEOs of global companies based in different…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Social Systems, Social Stratification, Neoliberalism
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Mok, Ka Ho; Lang, Simon; Xiao, Han – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
Aspiring to become a world power in an increasingly globalised world, the Chinese government recognises the importance of restructuring its economic structure to sustain its economic structure to sustain future economic growth. The Chinese government has also tried to adopt appropriate measures to transform not only the economic structures but…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Talent, Global Approach, Career Development
Karl Schulze – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of three chapters that study individual investment in human capital and the incidence of economic shocks. I use administrative data to answer these questions, developing and applying structural methods to analyze individual choices in combination with a careful consideration of research design. Chapter 1 studies the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Majors (Students), College Students, Labor Market
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Sutton, April – Sociology of Education, 2017
I investigate how the educational demands of local labor markets shape high school course offerings and student course taking. Using the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 linked to the U.S. Census 2000, I focus on local economic variation in the share of jobs that do not demand a bachelor's degree. I find that schools in local labor markets…
Descriptors: Labor Market, High Schools, Longitudinal Studies, Course Selection (Students)
Guerrieri, Kevin G.; Ivanic, Aarti S.; Hannasch-Haag, Diana; Gonzalez, Julieta – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Business education must evolve. Traditionally, it has been narrowly focused, siloed, and often reflective of the transactional nature of business through the lens of maximizing shareholder wealth. The triumph of market fundamentalism over the last five decades has coincided with increasing social inequality, the concentration of corporate power,…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Business Schools, School Business Relationship
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Michael D. Smith; Bradley D. F. Colpitts – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
Through the market-based conception of neoliberal performativity, an interlocking set of socio-economic agendas integrate higher education (HE) in state-level systems of production and accumulation. Within the scope of globalism, the capacity to develop competitive human capital emerges as a proxy indicator of achievement amongst institutions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Philosophy, Social Systems
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Nicole Tieben – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Prior research has shown that students from lower socio-economic backgrounds are less likely to graduate. We examine if this can be explained by background-specific pathways into higher education. Many students in Germany enter higher education with a vocational qualification and prior vocational qualifications occur more often among students from…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Socioeconomic Background, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Schuster, Katja; Margarian, Anne – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Motivated by discussions of skill mismatches on local German vocational educational and training (VET) markets, this paper analyses how occupational segments of VET entry of individuals with lower and intermediate secondary school degree relate to local labor market characteristics. The econometric analysis applies data from a survey conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Secondary School Students, Grade 9
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Eriksen, Kristin Gregers; Stein, Sharon – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2022
The national imaginary of Norway as a global champion of democracy and social welfare has served well to market its image as exceptional both nationally and internationally. Norwegian national exceptionalism is also deeply embedded within the educational system, and manifests in the production of knowledge and social identities. Despite the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values, Well Being
Covacevich, Catalina; Mann, Anthony; Besa, Filippo; Diaz, Jonathan; Santos, Cristina – OECD Publishing, 2021
This paper explores how teenage thinking about jobs and careers relates to adulthood labour market outcomes. The OECD working paper "Career Ready? How schools can better prepare young people for working life in the era of COVID-19" (ED613604) identifies career certainty, alignment and ambition as relevant indicators related to career…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Longitudinal Studies, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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Hirao, Tomotaka – Higher Education Forum, 2023
This paper replicates models developed by previous research to study the effects of graduate education on new graduates' initial employment in the Japanese labor market. If education is the best investment for an individual's economic success, then graduate degrees are expected to provide an individual with higher-earning job opportunities.…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities
Husock, Howard – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
The challenge of reopening US public schools in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has high-lighted the significant role that local teachers unions play in setting policy. The politics of school reopening during the pandemic has brought to the national spotlight the outsized role that teachers unions play in managing big cities. Bureau of Labor…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School District Size, School Districts, Unions
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