scholarly journals Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Arcidiacono ◽  
Patrick Bayer ◽  
Aurel Hizmo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
College Graduation ◽  
Direct Role

We provide evidence that college graduation plays a direct role in revealing ability to the labor market. Using the NLSY79, our results suggest that ability is observed nearly perfectly for college graduates, but is revealed to the labor market more gradually for high school graduates. Consequently, from the beginning of their careers, college graduates are paid in accordance with their own ability, while the wages of high school graduates are initially unrelated to their own ability. This view of ability revelation in the labor market has considerable power in explaining racial differences in wages, education, and returns to ability. (JEL D82, I21, I23, J24, J31)

Issues of Developmental Instruction in Higher Education and the Need for Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-270
Author(s):  
Theresa Neimann
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Graduation Rates ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
College Graduation ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School Graduation Rates ◽  
College Credits ◽  
College Ready ◽  
College Graduation Rates

Achievement gaps are responsible for low high school graduation rates, low college enrollments, low college graduation rates, and lack of job readiness. Because many of today's high school students are not college ready, there is the need for developmental education in community colleges. Approximately 60% of high school graduates need to take remedial education courses before they can take credit bearing classes, and 76% of high school graduates do not meet ACT college readiness benchmarks. Dual enrollment is one way to address this issue. Opportunities to extend college credits to interested high school students have been increasing as an intervention strategy in preparing students for college, improving graduation rates, and reducing the time of college completion.

scholarly journals Diagnosis of Professional Expectations of High School Graduates – Implications for the Modern Personnel Function

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kawka
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Group ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Professional Attitudes ◽  
Professional Expectations

The article presents a characterization of the generation of the new economy in the perspective of presenting research on the professional expectations of high school graduates. It is a social group that will enter the labor market within the next few years. It is characterized by a large declaration of mobility, a desire for improvement and entrepreneurship in its professional attitudes. These are the results presented in the text that show the likely conditions for the employers to prepare in the coming years. Against this background, the implications are shown for the modern personnel function in the context of optimizing the potential brought to the organization by the employees of the youngest generations. The article summarizes the directions of development and challenges within the next few years, which face changes in the personnel function.

RIGID LOW COLLEGE PREMIUMS AND THE EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN TAIWAN

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550022 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI-HSUAN HUANG ◽  
HSIN-YI HUANG
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Cohort Effect ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Elasticity Of Substitution ◽  
Export Structure ◽  
Expansion Of Higher Education

The rapid expansion of higher education in the late 1980s in Taiwan has resulted in a swift increase in the supply of highly-educated workers in the labor market. This research differs from past studies in that it analyzes the effect of the rapid expansion in higher education in Taiwan with emphasis on the cohort effect, specifically examining the effect of changes both in intra-cohort relative supply and the aggregate relative supply on college returns. Besides, when estimating the aggregate relative supply of college graduates, this study takes into account the substitutability between younger and older educated workers. We present evidence that the expansion policy has significantly depressed college premiums for workers of all ages, but the adverse effect is particularly concentrated among the younger cohorts. Furthermore, we found the elasticity of substitution between college and high school graduates to be 3–4 times higher than in developed countries. We also found the important role played by the demand side, likely linked to technological progress and changes in export structure toward the more technologically intensive. As a consequence, the expansion of higher education and increase in the relative demand for higher-educated workers, along with high elasticity of substitution between college and high school graduates, led to the rigid low college premiums.

Racial Differences in Intersegment Mobility

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Waddoups
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Response Models ◽  
Qualitative Response ◽  
Segmented Labor Market

This article is an exploration of racial differences in the intersegment mobility process in a segmented labor market. To this end, a series of qualitative response models describing mobility of prime-age white and nonwhite males through a tripartite segmented labor market is constructed. It is found that demand variables representing labor market conditions, as well as traditional human capital variables are important predictors of intersegment mobility. It is also evident that there are striking racial differences in intersegment mobility patterns.

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