Sociological research on labor markets has focused most of its attention on the supply side
of the labor market, that is, the characteristics of job seekers and job incumbents. Despite its …

The decisions employers make are of critical importance to sociological understandings of
labor market stratification. While contemporary research documents employment outcomes …

An audit study is a specific type of field experiment primarily used to test for discriminatory
behavior when survey and interview questions induce social desirability bas. In this chapter …

Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a
monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is …

This paper provides a comprehensive account of the way in which cognitive and educational
attainment mediate the link between social origins and elite social class destinations in mid …

With the rising price of college and anxiety about graduates' job prospects, the employability
of graduates is a dominant narrative shaping postsecondary policy and practice around the …

The time for completing a Ph. D. continues to be longer than desirable in most higher
education systems worldwide. This is a concern for research funding agencies, universities …

An ongoing debate is centred around the question of how we can understand the value of
university credentials in accessing jobs. We know that occupations are strong determinants …

Amplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of today's small liberal arts colleges
through an extended examination of a recent cohort of students attending them. It …

We study the education premiums in the online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending marketplace in
which individuals bid on unsecured microloans applied by individual borrowers. Using more …