What Can You Do with That Degree?: College Major and Occupational Status of College Graduates over Time

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Career Outcomes of STEM and Non-STEM College Graduates: Persistence in Majored-Field and Influential Factors in Career Choices (2013, methodology): “First, college majors have different specificity (Roksa and Levey 2010).”
The Mark of a Woman’s Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring (2018, background): “In this case, there could still be differences in employment outcomes across majors, because fields of study signal different types of human capital (Kim, Tamborini, and Sakamoto 2015; Roksa and Levey 2010).”
School-to-Work Linkages, Educational Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes (2019, unknown): “…improves on the comparative educational literature in sociology (Allmendinger 1989; Kerckhoff 2000; Maurice, Sellier, and Silvestre 1986; Shavit and Muller 1998) and the comparative political economy literature (Hall and Soskice 2001; Iversen and Soskice 2001), both of which focus on…”
Limitations of human capital theory* (2019, background): “‘Occupationally specific degrees are beneficial at the point of entry into the labour market but have the lowest growth in occupational status over time’ (Roksa and Levey 2010, 389), though they do better in earnings (399).”