The Market for College-Trained Manpower : A Study in the Economics of Career Choice / Richard B. Freeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Richard B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College graduates--Employment--United States.

College graduates.

Vocational interests.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Tables

Figures

Introduction

1. The Economic Theory of Occupational Choice

2. Models of the Labor and Education Markets

3. Developments in the Market for Highly Specialized Workers after World War II

4. The Cobweb Pattern: the Bachelor of Science in Engineering

5. The Income of Doctorate Specialists

6. Stipend Income and Educational Subsidies

7. The Incomplete Adjustment Pattern: Doctorate Manpower

8. Cobweb and Incomplete Adjustment in Other College Markets

9. Demand for Education and the Market for Faculty

10. Career Plans and Occupational Choice

11. Expectations and Marginal Decision-Making

12. Policy and Research Implications

Appendices, notes, index

Appendix A. Computation of Incremental Taxes

Appendix B. Questionnaire and Representative Response

Appendix C. Analysis of the Response Bias

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-18944-2

OCLC:

654722416