The Impact of Manufacturing Credentials on Earnings and the Probability of Employment

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ID5086524
AutoresVanessa Brown (0000-0002-3622-7835), Gardner Carrick, Maggie R Jones (0000-0002-6066-383X, autor correspondente), Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej (0009-0009-3339-6826), John Voorheis (0000-0001-5643-8800), Caroline Walker (0000-0003-4586-8578, Vanessa Brown is Deputy Chief Data Officer, retired, at National Student Clearinghouse. Gardner Carrick is Chief Program Officer at the National Association of Manufacturers. Maggie R. Jones is Principal Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau. Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej is Assistant Center Chief, Demographic Research Area, Center for Economic Studies, at the U.S. Census Bureau. John Voorheis is Principal Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau. Caroline Walker is Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau)
Ano2024
Volume77
Fascículo4
Páginas535-561
Data de publicação2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00197939241256871
OpenAlexW4399551217
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas27

This article examines the labor market returns to earning industry-certified credentials in the manufacturing sector. Specifically, the authors are interested in estimating the impact of a manufacturing credential on earnings and probability of employment, both overall and within the pre- and post-credential industry of employment. They link students who earned manufacturing credentials to their educational enrollment and completion records, and then further link them to IRS tax records for earnings and employment and to the American Community Survey and decennial census for demographic information. Earnings trajectories are presented for workers with credentials by demographic group, including age, race/ethnicity, gender, and educational attainment. To obtain more causal estimates of the labor market impacts of credentials, the authors implement a coarsened exact matching strategy to compare outcomes between otherwise similar people with and without credentials. Findings show that the attainment of a manufacturing industry credential is associated with increasingly higher earnings and a higher likelihood of labor market participation

American Community Survey · Business · Census · Certification · Credential · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Labour economics · Matching (statistics) · Political science · Population · Propensity score matching · Finance · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation · Retirement, Disability, and Employment