Labor Market Signaling and the Value of College

Kreisman, Daniel; Smith, J. David; Arifin, Bondi

doi:10.3368/jhr.0119-9979r2

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“…Research indicates that people sometimes misrepresent their education or work history on resumes (Kreisman et al., 2021). At the same time, other research confirms that people misrepresent the same information on surveys no less frequently (Black et al., 2003).…”

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Why college majors and selectivity matter: Major groupings, occupation specificity, and job skills

Weiss,

Spitzer,

Cronin

et al. 2024

Contemporary Economic Policy

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We provide new approaches to examining the returns to college majors and institutional selectivity. Using unique resume data, we devise new groupings of majors and use these to construct five measures that characterize majors. Applying these measures to the National Survey of College Graduates, we find that majors that lead to jobs that are math‐intensive or writing‐intensive have higher earnings and also a higher return to selectivity. Majors that are occupationally specific also have higher earnings but have a lower return to institutional selectivity. We find that the value of selectivity relative to major increases as selectivity rises.

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Why college majors and selectivity matter: Major groupings, occupation specificity, and job skills

Weiss,

Spitzer,

Cronin

et al. 2024

Contemporary Economic Policy

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“…University dropouts also experience disadvantages in the labor market, in the sense of limited job prospects, a higher risk of unstable jobs, lower employment likelihood and disadvantages in specialized positions [66][67][68]. Moreover, applicants seem to anticipate this, as a third of dropouts conceal on their CV that they attended higher education without graduation [69]. The individual and labor market consequences aggregate into losses to society.…”

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Virtual Voices, Real Insights: Sentiment and Topic Analysis of Discussions about Educational Dropout in YouTube comments

Herrmann

2024

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The present study addresses the prevalent issue of high dropout rates in post-secondary education. It aims to expand understanding of the reasons for dropping out from both higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET) while also exploring the utilization of social media data as an approach for empirical educational research. Leveraging text mining approaches, such as topic modeling and sentiment analysis, the study analyzes comments from YouTube videos addressing dropout in HE and VET contexts. The research questions focus on the suitability of these methods for gaining insights into dropout phenomena, identifying relevant topics associated with dropout in both educational sectors, and the sentiments expressed towards dropout. Results suggest that comments on VET dropout videos often center around financial and working condition issues, while those on HE dropout videos are generally optimistic and future-focused. Overall, sentiments are primarily neutral to positive, with HE dropout comments being more positive than those on VET dropout.

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Labor Market Signaling and the Value of College

Cited by 2 publications

References 35 publications

Why college majors and selectivity matter: Major groupings, occupation specificity, and job skills

Why college majors and selectivity matter: Major groupings, occupation specificity, and job skills

Virtual Voices, Real Insights: Sentiment and Topic Analysis of Discussions about Educational Dropout in YouTube comments

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