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

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1971
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 29 figures, 83 tables
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Table of 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