Using data from a 2005 nationally representative survey of working adults residing in the United States, we show that education is associated positively with a sense of personal control. The well-educated have higher status occupations which include higher levels of schedule control, challenging, interesting and enriching work, greater economic…

The human capital and signaling theories of the value of education were tested by estimating earnings equations that include both grade level and rank. Years of schooling had consistently positive effects on earnings, supporting human capital as the predominant explanation of the value of schooling. (SK)

Relying upon recent research, this article puts into perspective the evolution of inequalities concerning both education and life chances in France since the 1960s. While a dramatic expansion of education has taken place, what consequences can one observe as far as social mobility and more broadly social reproduction are concerned? In fact, French…

The authors investigate why the economic value of education stopped rising over the past ten years. They conclude that the most likely explanation seems to be that the booming economy of the late 1990s helped to increase the average earnings of all workers, including those at the low end of the skills distribution. (Contains 13 notes and 2…

Purpose: This study aims to investigate how various aspects of intraorganizational career advancement--current career attainments, recent pace of upward mobility, and future prospect of career advancement--affect voluntary turnover, drawing empirical evidence from a multinational corporation (MNC) in Taiwan's cultural and labor market environment.…

It was hypothesized that if status-inconsistency effects were operating, we would observe statistical interaction effects between ethnoreligious group membership and education, and that these interactions would vary as a function of ethnoreligious status. However, data indicated interaction effectsresulted from persistence of subcultural…

Examines why teachers have responded unenthusiastically, if not negatively, to socialist criticism of education in the United States. Points out shortcomings of the critique and the areas it has not explored. (JOW)

Between 1983 and 1993, an increasing share of jobs was in high-paying occupations requiring college education. However, most jobs that were filled paid below-average wages and did not require college. (SK)

This report outlines Aboriginal learner participation and achievement in British Columbia's public post-secondary institutions for the period 2003-04 to 2006-07. In developing the report, the Ministry worked with its Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education and Training Partners, which includes Aboriginal and First Nations leadership, public…

Today's K-20 students have been called, among other names, the net generation. As they matriculate through the education system, they are often exposed to materials and manipulatives used for the past 40 years, and not to the digital media to which they are accustomed. As student scores continue to regress from Grade 3 to Grade 12 and technical…