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Saar, Ellu; Unt, Marge; Helemäe, Jelena; Oras, Kaja; Täht, Kadri – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
Since the 1980s, growing globalisation and economic restructuring coupled with expansion of tertiary education contributed to tremendous change in the labour market entry process in Europe. Most previous studies have been quantitative, concentrated on the supply aspect and analysed the role of education as the explanatory variable of youth labour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, College Graduates, Case Studies
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McKechnie, Jim; Hobbs, Sandy; Simpson, Amanda; Anderson, Seonaid; Howieson, Cathy; Semple, Sheila – Journal of Education and Work, 2010
Research has shown that the majority of school students combine full-time education with part-time employment. To date educationalists have paid little attention to this, in part due to the negative views about the "quality" of such work and its effect on educational attainment. In this research, a case study approach is used to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Employment, Part Time Employment, Job Skills
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Russell, Lisa; Simmons, Robin; Thompson, Ron – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
This paper discusses the findings from a one-year ethnographic study of young people attending Entry to Employment (E2E) programmes in two local authorities in the north of England. The paper locates E2E within the broader context of provision for low-achieving young people and of UK government policy on reducing the proportion of young people who…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Public Policy