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Shan, Hongxia – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
Research has extensively documented the employment barriers facing immigrants in Canada. Less attention is paid to the employment strategies that immigrants deploy in the host labour market. To address this gap in the literature, two projects are conducted to examine how immigrant women learn to optimize their labour market outcomes. Both projects…
Descriptors: Credentials, Females, Global Approach, Labor Market
Schurer, K. – 2000
Data from the 1811 and 1851 census in England and Wales as well as other data from those countries in 1891 and 1921 were analyzed to investigate individuals' timing and extent of departure from the parental home. The authors found the following: (1) there was a gradual increase in the ages at which children left the parental home; (2) the pace of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biographies, Cohort Analysis, Demography