[Excerpt] Given the extraordinary scope of the current economic crisis, no single policy can fully...

Returning to the 64.3% employment/population ratio of 1999-2000 would necessitate an 11+ percent increase in...

[Excerpt] In the last three months employment declined by 1.2 million jobs and the number...

This paper uses the results of a survey of more than 3500 private employers to...

The Targeted Jobs Tax Credit is probably the most outstanding example of a generous entitlement...

Excerpt] The New Jobs Tax Credit (NJTC) offers a tax credit of fifty percent of...

[Excerpt] Concern that structural factors impede efficient labor market performance is evidenced in both statistical...

This paper measures the impacts of tougher graduation requirements on course taking patterns, learning, college...

[Excerpt] High school career-technical education (CTE) is a massive enterprise. Last year high school students...

[Excerpt] The paper began with an examination of the effects of tougher graduation requirements on...

[Excerpt] This report is based on a survey of 7425 students attending high school during...

[Excerpt] This chapter examines the effects of improved signaling of student achievement in high school...

[Excerpt] Before the school-to-work (STW) movement began improving communication between schools and employers in the...

“Most of the young people entering professional, technical, and managerial occupations start their occupational training...

"As enrollment in secondary vocational education programs declines and employers re-evaluate the attributes needed for...

[Excerpt] Educationally disadvantaged youth in the United States have great difficulty finding steady jobs providing...

[Excerpt] Even though educational reform marches under a banner of economic renewal, the school subjects...

[Excerpt] Skill demands also appear to be rising within occupations. Increasing numbers of manufacturing workers...

"Occupationally specific vocational training pays off for disadvantaged students, but only if graduates work in...

[Excerpt] The paper examines the suitability of occupational competency measurement as a device for enhancing...

[Excerpt] About half of all youth either do not complete high school or end their...

[Excerpt] A number of blue ribbon-panels have called for increases in the number academic courses...

[Excerpt] Minority youth and non-minority youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds have great difficulty finding steady...

The paper challenges the widespread assumption that the wage effects of federal training programs are...

Northern European teenagers are 10+ percent more likely to graduate from secondary school than their...

Secondary schools are the least successful component of the U.S. education system. Students learn considerably...

[Excerpt] El ritmo de los estudiantes estadounidenses para adquirir nuevas habilidades se desacelera durante la...

[Excerpt] What causes differences in secondary school achievement across these four nations? The first two...

[Excerpt] Despite similar cultural roots and standards of living, the secondary education systems of France,...

[Excerpt] The scientific and mathematical competence of American high school students is generally recognized to...

This paper reviews international and domestic evidence on the effects of three types of high...

“This paper analyses effects of national or provincial exit examinations on education quality. On theoretical...

[Excerpt] Educational reformers and most of the American public believe that teachers ask too little...

[Excerpt] Two presidents, the National Governors Association, and numerous blue-ribbon panels have called for the...

[Excerpt] New York State has been administering curriculum-based Regents Examinations to high school students ever...

[Excerpt] It is claimed that 'curriculum-based external exit exam systems', CBEEES, based on world class...

[Excerpt] Two presidents, the National Governors Association and numerous blue ribbon panels have called for...

[Excerpt] The first major prediction of the theory is that an increase in the extrinsic...

Externally set curriculum-based examinations at the end of high school apparently have pervasive backwash effects...

[Excerpt] The purpose of the educational enterprise is LEARNING. Engagement is essential to achieving this...

[Excerpt] Educational reformers and the majority of the American public believe that teachers ask too...

[Excerpt] Educational reformers and most of the American public believe that most teachers ask too...

[Excerpt] In the eyes of American parents, college admissions officers control the single most important...

[Excerpt] This paper analyzes the response of female college attendance and completion rates to changes...

[Excerpt] How much should doctorate training be subsidized? The answer proposed is, "Doctorate training should...

The paper assesses the relationship between investments in computer skills by adolescents and earnings at...

[Excerpt] Most of one's educational career is spent learning generic skills such as reading, writing...

[Excerpt] Concern about slackening productivity growth and deteriorating competitiveness has resulted in a new public...

[Excerpt] Concern about slackening productivity growth and deteriorating competitiveness has resulted in a new public...

[Excerpt] The scientific and mathematical competence of American high school students is generally recognized to...

[Excerpt] Concern about slackening productivity growth and deteriorating competitiveness has resulted, in many nations, in...

[Excerpt] The professionalism that the American military recently exhibited in the Persian Gulf is in...

[Excerpt] This article examines the causal connections between these two phenomena: changes in the academic...

[Excerpt] This article examines the causes of the learning deficits in science, math and technology,...

[Excerpt] Another way of evaluating American performance in math and Science is to make comparisons...

[Excerpt] The paper examines the suitability of occupational competency measurement as a device for enhancing...

The thesis of this paper is that wage rates and earnings give misleading signals to...

In the 1960s U.S. participation rates in secondary education were the highest in the world....

[Excerpt] Three presidents, the National Governors Association, numerous blue ribbon panels and national teachers unions...

Welfare Reform and the Earned Income Tax Credit have apparently caused a dramatic increase in...

[Excerpt] One of the central propositions of the human capital theory of on-the-job training is...

While the importance of on-the-job training is recognized by everyone, it is a phenomenon that...

[Excerpt] This article explores the effects that these regulations have on: (a) the form of...

[Excerpt] The theory of on-the-job training predicts that workers should pay the full costs of...

"Many economists question the need for social intervention in training, arguing that the benefits accruing...

American employers and workers underinvest in employer training. Underinvestment occurs because training generates externalities, because...

American employers and their workers under invest in employer training. Under investment occurs because training...

[Excerpt] Workers who are assigned to the same job and paid the same wage often...

"This report proposes that the Department of Labor undertake a program of research designed to...

[Excerpt] A growing number of commentators are pointing to employer sponsored training (OJT)as a critical...

This paper presents evidence that productivity net of general training costs rise 4 or 5...

This paper presents an analysis of a unique data set containing measures of the time...

Greater use of employment tests for selecting workers will have important effects on the economy....

[Excerpt] Studies have found consistently that there is a strong positive correlation between a worker's...

[Excerpt] This paper challenges the general validity of these simple predictions. It begins in section...

This paper presents evidence that during the first year or so of a worker's tenure,...

Employment tests predict job performance because they measure or are correlated with a large set...

[Excerpt] The fundamental cause of the low effort level of American students, parents, and voters...

[Excerpt] Educational and political leaders are calling for improvements in the signalling and certification of...

[Excerpt] Greater use of tests assessing competence in verbal, mathematical, technical arenas and in specific...

American high school students devote much less time and energy to their studies than the...

[Excerpt] Legislative proposals for vouchers for K-12 schooling have come before many legislatures and are...

[Excerpt] Demand for college graduates workers was strong during the 1980s (Blackburn, Bloom and Freeman...

According to manpower requirements economists, "overeducation" occurs when an individual has more schooling than is...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of occupational employment growth have consistently underpredicted the growth...

[Excerpt] At the beginning of the 1980's, some analysts predicted an increase in lower-skilled jobs...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections of occupational employment growth have consistently underpredicted the...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of occupational employment growth have consistently underpredicted the growth...

[Excerpt] The growing shortage of professionally trained workers and the rising skill premiums will tend...

[Excerpt] Why are boys so much more likely to be academically disengaged in secondary school?...

[Excerpt] Why and how do groups create norms? Kenneth Arrow proposed that “norms of social...

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What...

This paper addresses two of secondary education’s most serious problems—peer abuse of weaker socially unskilled...

[Excerpt] One of the primary reasons American students learn a good deal less during secondary...

[Excerpt] In the eyes of American parents, college admissions officers control the single most important...

American high school students devote much less time and energy to their studies than the...

[Excerpt] Yes, it is a classic chicken versus egg problem. We assign teachers the responsibility...

The purpose of the educational enterprise is LEARNING. Engagement is essential to achieving this purpose....

This paper analyzes the effects of increased academic standards on both average achievement levels and...

This paper presents a model of educational production that tries to make sense of recent...

“Educational reformers and most of the American public think that teachers ask too little of...

[Excerpt] Two presidents, the National Governors Association and numerous blue ribbon panels have called for...

[Excerpt] The Problem: The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports that 92 percent of...

“This article proposes a strategy for banishing mediocrity and building in its place an excellent...

[Excerpt] The Problem: The scientific and mathematical competence of American high school students is generally...

[Excerpt] Business leaders are complaining about the declining quality of entry level workers in the...

[Excerpt] The poor performance of American students is sometimes blamed on the nation's "diversity". Many...

[Excerpt] The analysis of the causes of the American apathy regarding teaching and learning has...

[Excerpt] The National Commission on Excellence in Education has stated, "Learning is the indispensable investment...

[Excerpt] This paper examines when and to what extent an individual's relative wage depends on...

The paper tests and finds strong support for the hypothesis that in the nonunion sector...

[Excerpt] This paper will attempt to determine the extent to which changes in female college...

[Excerpt] The test score decline between 1967 and 1980 was large (about 1.25 grade-level equivalents)...