Do community colleges really divert students from earning bachelor's degrees?

DE Leigh, AM Gill - Economics of Education review, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper provides new estimates of the ‘diversion effect’ argument advanced by critics of
community colleges. As emphasized by Rouse (J. Business Econ. Statist. 13 (1995) 217), …

Labor market returns to community colleges: Evidence for returning adults

DE Leigh, AM Gill - Journal of Human Resources, 1997 - JSTOR
Duane E. Leigh is a professor of economics at Washington State University. Andrew M.
Gill is an associate professor of economics at California State University, Fullerton. …

Wage determination in the union and nonunion sectors: A sample selectivity approach

GM Duncan, DE Leigh - ILR Review, 1980 - journals.sagepub.com
… a similar statistical methodology to a similar model, results for middle-aged black men and
young white and black men in addition to middleaged whites are presented in Duane E. Leigh

Community college enrollment, college major, and the gender wage gap

AM Gill, DE Leigh - ILR Review, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
The literature on the narrowing of the gender wage gap during the 1980s considers, among
other factors, the closing of the male-female differential in post-secondary education. This …

Do the returns to community colleges differ between academic and vocational programs?

AM Gill, DE Leigh - Journal of Human Resources, 2003 - jhr.uwpress.org
This paper provides new evidence about the payoffs to community colleges’ terminal training
programs as distinct from their traditional transfer function. Using NLSY data, we offer three …

The endogeneity of union status: An empirical test

GM Duncan, DE Leigh - Journal of Labor Economics, 1985 - journals.uchicago.edu
An unsettled issue in the literature relating to the relative wage effect of unions is the
appropriate treatment of union status in a wage determination model. In the context of a three-…

In-school work experience and the returns to two-year and four-year colleges

CJ Molitor, DE Leigh - Economics of Education Review, 2005 - Elsevier
Building on the existing education literature, we address two interrelated questions. First,
how sensitive are estimated returns to two-year and four-year colleges to the inclusion of in-…

[BOOK][B] Does Training Work for Displaced Workers? A Survey of Existing Evidence.

DE Leigh - 1990 - ERIC
The principal roles for publicly sponsored retraining programs are twofold: (1) to reduce the
private and social costs associated with unnecessary delays in the reemployment process; …

The effect of community colleges on changing students' educational aspirations

DE Leigh, AM Gill - Economics of Education Review, 2004 - Elsevier
The education literature provides numerous estimates of community college diversion and
democratization effects measured in terms of educational attainment. Kane and Rouse [J …

Occupational advancement in the late 1960s: An indirect test of the dual labor market hypothesis

DE Leigh - Journal of Human Resources, 1976 - JSTOR
The occupational mobility of black and white males during the late 1960s is examined to test
the hypotheses that large and systematic racial differentials exist in both between-firm and …