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Adriana Vamosiu; Marvin A. Titus; Jon Sandy – Higher Education Policy, 2024
We investigate operating costs at 682 public community colleges in the United States over a 15-year period (2004-2018). The results reveal that costs are spatially correlated across neighboring institutions, indicating the need for a spatial analysis. An institution's actions are associated with changes in costs for that particular institution…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Operating Expenses, Correlation, Economic Factors
Jehn, Anthony; Walters, David; Howells, Stephanie – Higher Education Policy, 2021
Level of postsecondary schooling and field of study remain significant markers of social stratification. However, the extent to which these various types of postsecondary schooling influence the labor market outcomes of recent male and female graduates is unknown. Drawing on data from Statistics Canada's 2013 National Graduates Survey, we examine…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Salary Wage Differentials, College Graduates, Engineering Education
Daun-Barnett, Nathan – Higher Education Policy, 2011
For the past 10 years, a growing number of community colleges in the US have begun to offer baccalaureate degrees across a range of targeted programmes including business, education, and nursing. This study examines whether community college baccalaureate policies result in an increased production of nurses--currently a policy priority in nearly…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Private Colleges, Public Colleges, Nurses
Walters, David – Higher Education Policy, 2006
This study compares the school-to-work transitions of recent male and female postsecondary graduates of various levels of schooling. Gender comparisons in earnings are also made between graduates of applied and technical fields with those of liberal arts fields. The results of this study suggest that the earnings of university graduates of all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Postsecondary Education, College Graduates
Effectiveness of 2-Year Colleges and the Performance of Their Graduates in the Japanese Labor Market
Watanabe, Satoshi P. – Higher Education Policy, 2003
This article empirically examines the spread of higher education in Japan and the resulting changes in labor quality in the last two decades. This study uses the Divisia index numbers to measure the labor quality and quality-adjusted labor supply. It points out that quality might have declined rapidly in the recent past among higher educated…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Higher Education, Two Year Colleges, Labor Market