In other words, the declining middle is accounted for mostly by the disappearance of good-paying, routine-work jobs for high school graduates and dropouts, and not by declining demand for workers with various kinds of postsecondary education or training short of a bachelor’s degree (BA). Inde...
Jobs for Political Dropouts; the White House May Have Broken the Law
#stevejobs# For the first thirty years of the personal computer age, beginning in the late 1970s, the defining binary star system was composed of two high-energy college dropouts both born in 1955.Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, despite their similar ambitions at the confluence of technology and ...
This paper advocates expansion and better integration of efforts to connect high school dropouts between the ages of 16 and 24 to pathways to postsecondary... L Harris - 《Center for American Progress》 被引量: 4发表: 2008年 Teachers' labeling of students and its effect on students' self–...
摘要: This, titled Why gaining a GED may not be the right answer for high school dropouts to escape low-wage jobs, is an invited writting posted on the Blogs of London School of Economics.年份: 2015 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享
year was 1999, the unemployment rate was 4.3 percent, and President Bill Clinton's top economic adviser had a message for economists gathered at Yale University: Tight labor markets, in which the demand for workers is high, are beneficial for blacks, Hispanics, and male high school dropouts. ...
increased education rates and added teenagers were more likely to complete school during a time of weak economic conditions. The Washington Post reported that the number of young people working has decreased continuously since the 1970s, as efforts to reduce the rate of hig...
Low-skill workers in particular are still suffering terribly in the labor market. The unemployment rate for African-American teenagers is 35.8%; for white teenagers, it is 18.6%. Just under 11% of high-school dropouts are unemployed. Disability rolls have grown as the unemployment rate has rise...
1963–2008 Compound annual growth rate, % 1.1 Ratio of weekly wages of college graduates to high school dropouts Multiple 2.8 0.5 0.4 +63% 1.7 College graduate1 Some college High School graduate 0 Less than high school 1963 2008 1 Includes workers ...
The presence of foreign-born workers lowers wages for all Americans. Harvard Professor George Borjas estimates that immigrants arriving between 1980 and 2000 reduced the average annual earnings of native-born males by about 4 percent. Among high school dropouts, who roughly correspond to the poorest...