Industry Fluctuations and College Major Choices: Evidence from an Energy Boom and Bust

Han, Luyi; Winters, John V.

doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2020.101996

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“…Rocky Mountain natives can learn skiing, hiking, and climbing; Minnesotans can learn ice fishing, curling, and hockey; coastal residents can learn surfing and other water and beach activities. Individuals also often invest in job skills that are particularly valuable in their home area (Han and Winters, 2020).…”

Section: Sense Of Belonging As a Friction To Migrationmentioning

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No Place Like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science

Winters¹

2022

Review of Regional Studies

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Place-based attachments are important but often overlooked. Place-based attachments can be beneficial but often harm individuals tied to struggling areas. In this address, I discuss my own education and migration experiences and then more generally discuss sense of belonging as a friction to migration. I also present descriptive statistics related to place-based attachments. Most persons born in the U.S. live in their birth state as adults. Birth-state residence has increased over time, especially among the highly educated. I also present evidence that college graduates who reside in their birth state experience a wage penalty that is increasing over time.

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Section: Sense Of Belonging As a Friction To Migrationmentioning

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No Place Like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science

Winters¹

2022

Review of Regional Studies

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“…However, although they do not quantify the phenomenon of returns to human capital, some papers deal with elements of the model proposed in this study. On the one hand, the authors of [40] analysed the existence of particular interest in the choice of studies related to the energy industry at those times of its peak. Similarly, the authors of [41] studied the hiring needs from the point of view of the companies, something quite related to the theory of human capital, which is the theoretical support of the proposed model.…”

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A Study of the Wages in the Spanish Energy Sector

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The role of the energy industry has always been central for one reason or another, being environmentalism the main motive in the last two decades. Therefore, attention and research have been directed in this sense. However, human resources—or human capital—have remained understudied, especially concerning the salaries received. Thus, this study is disruptive as it explored the factors that influence employee remuneration in the energy subsector, using Spain as a case study. For this, the PLS-SEM (Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling) path modelling methodology was used, executing a traditional PLS analysis, bootstrapping and, finally, IPMA (Importance-Performance Analysis). Solid and significant relationships were found among labour conditions, human capital, market and wages, with the relationships between human capital and wages and between human capital and labour conditions being especially relevant. Besides, through IPMA, a series of considerations was made regarding the individual indicators according to their relative importance and performance. Consequently, this paper significantly contributes to the extant literature by analysing the composition of wages in the energy sector, which might allow taking valuable management decisions. Nevertheless, the main limitation of this study lies in the availability of data for Spain and, specifically, for workers in the energy supplying industries.

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“…Altonji et al [23] systematically reviewed the role of demand in college students' major choices. Several studies have documented that major choices respond to wage changes in the labor market, as students would consider the current wage as the most important reference for their future wage [24,25]. However, ability sorting in major choices affects the returns of different majors in the labor market.…”

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Grey’s Anatomy: Gender Differences in Specialty Choice for Medical Students in China

Shao

Wang

2021

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Gender differences in sub-major choices within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have scarcely been discussed. This study uses administrative records from a top medical school in China to examine gender differences in medical students’ specialty choices. Results showed that, although the gender gap in choosing a clinical track shrinks over time, female students in the clinical track are far less likely to choose highly paid surgical specialties, and this gap persists over time. However, female students outperformed male students in all of the courses. Thus, academic performance cannot explain the underrepresentation of female students in surgery. We further collected questions such as “Why don’t female students choose surgical specialties” and answers to them in “Chinese Quora”, Zhihu.com. A preliminary text analysis showed that ultra-physical load, discrimination in recruitment, women-unfriendly work climates, and difficulties in taking care of family are barriers that prevent women from choosing surgery.

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Industry Fluctuations and College Major Choices: Evidence from an Energy Boom and Bust

Cited by 13 publications

References 56 publications

No Place Like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science

No Place Like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science

A Study of the Wages in the Spanish Energy Sector

Grey’s Anatomy: Gender Differences in Specialty Choice for Medical Students in China

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