The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older Displaced Workers: Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks?

By Louis S. Jacobson, R. Lalonde, D. Sullivan. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Labor Market Returns to Sub-Baccalaureate Credentials (2015, methodology): “Jacobson, LaLonde, and Sullivan (2005) studied the returns to credits (rather than credentials) by field of study for displaced workers in Washington State.”
• The Labor-Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates (2014, unknown): “G. Earnings Returns for Credits Another way to measure the returns to KCTCS is to look at the returns to credits ðsee Jacobson et al. ½2005a, 2005b and citations withinÞ.”
• The Benefits of Attending Community College: A Review of the Evidence (2011, methodology): “Using UI data from Washington state in the 1990s, Jacobson et al. (2005a) estimated returns of 10% per year for students in quantitative or technically oriented vocational courses and 3% to 5% for less quantitative courses (e.g., sales and service, social sciences or humanities, and basic skills).”