Is It Worth It? Postsecondary Education and Labor Market Outcomes for the Disadvantaged By Harry Holzer, 2015 Visiting Scholar
A variety of technical certificates and Associates Degree
programs offer high payoffs in the job market, which can make a
difference for disadvantaged students. Instead, many students
choose general humanities programs at the AA or BA level that
have low rates of completion and lead to low-paying jobs
afterwards.
This 2014 working paper from the Calder Center, co-authored by
economist Harry Holzer, examines a range of postsecondary
education and labor market outcomes, with a particular focus on
minorities and/or disadvantaged workers.
Holzer is a professor of public policy at the McCourt School of
Public Policy at Georgetown University. He has previously served
as a faculty director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty,
Inequality and Public Policy. He is currently a Fellow at the
American Institutes for Research, the Brookings Institution and
at Harvard’s Program on Inequality and Social Policy.
In this podcast, Harry Holzer and Center Director Ann Stevens
discuss how colleges have taken on the role of building the U.S.
labor force. In March, 2015, Holzer visited the center as a
Visiting Scholar to present the seminar “Building Labor Market
Skills among Disadvantaged Americans.”
In this podcast, Harry Holzer and Center Director Ann Stevens
discuss how colleges have taken on the role of building the U.S.
labor force. In March, 2015, Holzer visited the center as a
Visiting Scholar to present the seminar “Building Labor Market
Skills among Disadvantaged Americans.”
