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Publication Date: 2010
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The Impact of New College Graduates on Intrastate Labor Markets
Trostel, Philip A.
Journal of Education Finance, v36 n2 p186-213 Fall 2010
A crucial issue in the debate on state support for higher education is the extent that a state's production of college graduates affects the state's education attainment. The view that many new graduates take their state-supported degrees to labor markets in other states undermines states' incentives to promote wider access to college. This study offers reasons to be skeptical of this view, and develops a simple framework to quantify the intrastate labor-market effects from the production of new college graduates. Data for years 1992-2005 from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS) are used to quantify the effects of new graduates on states' net migration, employment, unemployment, labor force nonparticipation, and wages of college graduates. The results indicate that a state's production of college graduates has a nearly proportionate impact on the state's college attainment. (Contains 9 tables and 29 footnotes.)
Descriptors: State Aid, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Labor Force, Labor Force Development, Labor Market, Supply and Demand, Migrant Workers, Economic Impact, Census Figures, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Data, Graduate Surveys
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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