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Students' Conceptions of Work and the Understanding of the Economic Value of Labor: A Developmental Study of Unemployment and Job Precarity in Times of an Economic Crisis
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Alonso, Lorena; Kohen, Raquel C. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
In the aftermath of the financial and economic recession of 2008, 130 Spanish students of five age groups (8 to 17 years) and two socioeconomic backgrounds were individually interviewed about unemployment and lower wages. The participants were presented with two hypothetical situations, and their responses were qualitatively and quantitatively…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Unemployment, Economic Climate, Children
Higher Education as Modulator of Gender Inequalities: Evidence of the Spanish Case
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Pastor, José Manuel; Peraita, Carlos; Soler, Ángel – Higher Education Policy, 2016
Raising educational levels may help to reduce inequalities between men and women in certain social and economic aspects. Using statistics for Spain, we analyse labour market behaviours such as the rates of activity and unemployment by sex according to the educational level. The results reveal that the differences between men and women decrease as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Gender Bias, Social Justice, Evidence
How Has the Global Economic Crisis Affected People with Different Levels of Education? Education Indicators in Focus. No. 1
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OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This paper reports that between 2008 and 2009, unemployment rates across OECD countries increased among people at all educational levels, but rose to especially troubling heights among people without an upper secondary education. In 2009, the average employment rate across OECD countries was much higher for individuals with a tertiary (i.e.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Climate, Global Approach, Educational Attainment
Young Workers: Varieties of Experience.
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change