Search results for author:"Martin Carnoy"
Total records matched: 16 Search took: 0.089 secs
-
The great work dilemma: Education, employment, and wages in the new global economy
Martin Carnoy
Economics of Education Review Vol. 16, No. 3 pp. 247–254
Advanced industrial economies in the 1990s face a work crisis in creating wage employment in a changing job market without greatly increased wage inequality. But this crisis is political as well as economic, and the highly popular policy focus on...
Language: English
-
Race, gender, and the role of education in earnings inequality: An introduction
Martin Carnoy
Economics of Education Review Vol. 15, No. 3 pp. 207–212
This article serves as an introduction to an issue of the "Economics of Education Review" devoted to research on the role of education in explaining economic inequality among different ethnic/race and gender groups in national labor markets. The...
Language: English
-
High Technology and International Labour Markets
Martin Carnoy
International Labour Review Vol. 124, No. 6 (1985) pp. 643–59
The author examines the impact of "high-tech" industries on labor markets, the division of labor and the organization of work, and the policy options open to societies for dealing with the effects. (CT)
-
Education and racial inequality: The human capital explanation revisited
Martin Carnoy
Economics of Education Review Vol. 15, No. 3 pp. 259–272
Disadvantaged minorities in the United States, such as blacks and Latinos, earn less than whites but have closed the income gap significantly in the past 50 yrs. Human capital theorists have explained these earnings differences and their decline...
Language: English
-
Women and minority gains in a rapidly changing local labor market: The San Francisco Bay area in the 1980s
Martin Carnoy; Weimin Gong
Economics of Education Review Vol. 15, No. 3 pp. 273–287
The 1980s in the United States were a decade of significant labor market gains for women of all races and ethnic groups in the context of increased wage inequality. This paper shows that in one important California labor market higher incomes paid...
Language: English
-
Are teachers accurate in predicting their students’ performance on high stakes’ exams? The case of Russia
Andrey Zakharov; Martin Carnoy
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 43, No. 1 (July 2015) pp. 1–11
The paper focuses on how accurate teachers may or may not be in gauging their class’academic abilities. We use a sample of classrooms in three Russian regions to identify sources of mathematics and Russian teachers’ inaccuracies in predicting their...
Language: English
-
Educational production and the distribution of teachers in Uruguay
Thomas F. Luschei; Martin Carnoy
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 30, No. 2 pp. 169–181
In this paper we discuss results from an analysis of a large dataset that includes virtually all sixth-grade students in Uruguay in 1996. We analyze the relationship between teacher attributes and student achievement scores and we explore the...
Language: English
-
Comparing opportunity to learn and student achievement gains in southern African primary schools: A new approach
Cheryl Reeves; Martin Carnoy; Nii Addy
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 33, No. 5 (September 2013) pp. 426–435
A popular explanation for low student achievement in many developing countries’ primary schools is that students have relatively little opportunity to learn (OTL) the skills needed for academic success. However logical this explanation may be,...
Language: English
-
Achievement gains from reconfiguring early schooling: The case of Brazil's primary education reform
Leonardo Rosa; Marcelo Martins; Martin Carnoy
Economics of Education Review Vol. 68, No. 1 (February 2019) pp. 1–12
We estimate the effect on primary school students’ achievement of a Brazilian policy that changed the entry age into first grade from seven to six years old. Before the policy, a typical child spent up to three years in pre-school, and four years in ...
Language: English
-
Do “better” teachers and classroom resources improve student achievement? A causal comparative approach in Kenya, South Africa, and Swaziland
Andrey Zakharov; Gaelebale Tsheko; Martin Carnoy
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 50, No. 1 (September 2016) pp. 108–124
We use the 2007 SACMEQ data to make traditional “upwardly biased” estimates of teacher and classroom resource correlates of 6th grade student achievement in Swaziland, Kenya, and South Africa using an OLS model, and a “less biased causal” approach...
Language: English
-
Which teaching practices improve student performance on high-stakes exams? Evidence from Russia
Andrey Zakharov; Martin Carnoy; Prashant Loyalka
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 36, No. 1 (May 2014) pp. 13–21
This study examines the relationship between student achievement and teaching practices aimed at raising student performance on a high stakes college entrance examination—the Russian Unified State Exam (USE). Data come from a survey of 3000 students ...
Language: English
-
How international tests fail to inform policy: The unsolved mystery of Australia’s steady decline in PISA scores
Leila Morsy; Tatiana Khavenson; Martin Carnoy
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 60, No. 1 (May 2018) pp. 60–79
Language: English
-
Estimating the Economic Payoff to Virtual University Education: A Case Study of the Open University of Catalonia
Jonatan Castaño-Muñoz; Martin Carnoy; Josep M. Duart
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning Vol. 72, No. 1 (2016) pp. 1–24
There is surprisingly little analysis of the employment and earnings impact on students of taking and completing Internet-based programs and of how it compares with earnings outcomes for graduates of face-to-face universities. This paper analyzes a...
-
Who Attends and Completes Virtual Universities: The Case of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
Martin Carnoy; Brenda Jarillo Rabling; Jonatan Castano-Munoz; Josep Maria Duart Montoliu; Teresa Sancho-Vinuesa
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning Vol. 63, No. 1 (January 2012) pp. 53–82
A highly touted feature of the so-called global "revolution" in higher education is the trend to use information technology to reach a broader clientele. Although there is evidence that students may be learning the material in on-line courses as...
-
Does On-Line Distance Higher Education Pay off for Adult Learners? The Case of the Open University of Catalonia
Martin Carnoy; Brenda Jarillo Rabling; Jonatan Castano-Munoz; Josep Maria Duart Montoliu; Teresa Sancho-Vinuesa
Higher Education Quarterly Vol. 66, No. 3 (July 2012) pp. 248–271
The increasing opportunities created for adults by on-line distance universities raise important issues about the payoff to such education. This study uses a unique set of survey data gathered by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in 2009 to...
-
How schools and students respond to school improvement programs: The case of Brazil's PDE
Martin Carnoy; Amber K. Gove; Susanna Loeb; Jeffery H. Marshall; Miguel Socias
Economics of Education Review Vol. 27, No. 1 (February 2008) pp. 22–38
This study uses rich empirical data from Brazil to assess how a government program (PDE) that decentralizes school management decisions changes what goes on in schools and how these changes affect student outcomes. It appears that the PDE resulted...
Language: English