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Title: Do Postsecondary Training Programs Respond to Changes in the Labor Market?

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: This paper analyzes whether postsecondary training programs have kept up with shifts in the occupational structure of the labor market over the past decades. I show long-term trends in the distribution of degrees and certificates across occupation groupings in the nation's largest community college system. Using an instrumental variables approach I then estimate that an occupation's share of community college completions grows 0.47 percentage points for every percentage point increase in its share of employment. However, I show that this relationship is primarily due to increases in student demand rather than to colleges expanding capacity.

Url: https://education.ucdavis.edu/sites/main/files/grosz_2018.pdf

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Authors: Grosz, Michel

Publisher: UC Davis

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Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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