Community Colleges and Labor Market Conditions: How Does Enrollment Demand Change Relative to Local Unemployment Rates?

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 765-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas W. Hillman ◽  
Erica Lee Orians
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Unemployment Rates

scholarly journals The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers’ Long-Term Skills

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Jaime Arellano-Bover
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Using Data

Using data on adults’ cognitive skills from 19 countries, this paper shows that labor market conditions during the education-to-work transition impact workers’ long-term skill development. Workers who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-25 have lower skills at ages 36-59. Unemployment rates at ages 26-35 do not have such an effect. Skill inequality is affected: those with less educated parents experience most of the negative effects. Using German panel data on skills, I document a mechanism related to heterogeneous skill development across firms: young workers at large firms experience higher skill growth than those at small firms.

Evaluating the impact of the labor market conditions index on labor market forecasts

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Connolly ◽  
Alice Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Out Of Sample ◽  
Market Variables ◽  
Labor Market Shocks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Recessionary Periods

AbstractThis paper examines the usefulness of the labor market conditions index (LMCI) in forecasting key labor market variables, particularly unemployment rates. Using a number of models, we compare out-of-sample forecasts of the unemployment rate with the LMCI to those without the LMCI. We also estimate models of the disaggregated unemployment rates by gender, race, and race by gender, with and without the LMCI, to identify disparities in the predictive power of the LMCI for different subgroups. Last, to determine how the LMCI performs in the presence of labor market shocks, we compare the forecasting performance of the LMCI during recessionary periods and expansionary periods. Our results confirm the potential usefulness of the LMCI as a parsimonious forecasting tool; we find that the LMCI generally improves unemployment forecasts. But, disparities exist in the predictive power of the index across subpopulations and the index forecasts slightly better during recessionary periods than expansionary periods.

Business management in the light of cultural diversity in the labor market

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
René Pawera ◽  
Monika Lavrovičová ◽  
Lucia Húsenicová
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Inequality

An important element of the management of modern companies and organizations is the proper use of diversity management and equal opportunities, aimed at eliminating discrimination in the labor market. The paper summarizes the starting points for these processes in the labor market. It describes the tendencies of the development of the solved problem in the context of the labor market conditions of the Slovak Republic. Key words: labor market inequality, equal opportunities management, diversity management

scholarly journals Assessing the Change in Labor Market Conditions

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hess T. Chung ◽  
Bruce Fallick ◽  
Christopher J. Nekarda ◽  
David Ratner
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions

scholarly journals The Influence of London on Labor Markets in Southern England, 1830-1914

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Southern England ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
Short Run

Historians have long acknowledged that London, because of its enormous size and rapidly growing demand for labor, acted as a powerful magnet for migrants from throughout southern England. However, while there is a large literature documenting the flow of migrants to London, there have been surprisingly few attempts to determine the consequences of this migration for southern labor markets. This article attempts to redress the imbalance in the literature by examining the influence of London on agricultural labor markets during the nineteenth century. In particular, the article examines the effect of distance from London on wage rates in southern England at various points in time, and the effect of labor market conditions in London on short-run changes in agricultural wage rates.

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