Economic challenges in higher education:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 1991
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research monograph
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Demand for undergraduate education - Charles T. Clotfelter -- - Academic labor supply - Ronald G. Ehrenberg -- - Costs and productivity in American colleges and universities - Malcolm Getz and John J. Siegfried
The last two decades have been a turbulent period for American higher education, with profound demographic shifts, gyrating salaries, and marked changes in the economy. While enrollments rose about 50% in that period, sharp increases in tuition and fees at colleges and universities provoke accusations of inefficiency, even outright institutional greed and irresponsibility. As the 1990s progress, surpluses in the academic labor supply may give way to shortages in many fields, but will there be enough new Ph.D.'s to go around?. Drawing on the authors' experience as economists and educators, this
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 422 p.)
ISBN:0226110621
9780226110622
9780226110509
0226110508

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