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Kevin S. Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Given that more than $170 Billion is invested annually on employee learning and development in the U.S (American Society for Training and Development, 2011) it is important that training leads to improved job performance. In any organization, workers require new knowledge and skills to become productive and maintain performance over time.…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Preferences, Organizational Learning, Labor Force
Thorpe, Anthony; Burns, Eila – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
This article explores the topic of diversity in the teaching workforce though the enactment of policy concentrating on teachers with dyslexia within the Further/Vocational Education and Training sectors of England and Finland. Two research projects from Finland and England focusing, respectively, on individual teachers' perspectives and managers'…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Employee Attitudes
Cunningham, Joseph – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
Despite the world slowly recovering from the 2008 recession and reducing levels of unemployment, the problem of underemployment persists. Underemployment is a problematic work status determined by an array of factors, including hours worked, comparative wages, and various subjective elements. This particular employment condition is affecting a…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Underemployment, Education Work Relationship, Job Skills
Duarte, Oscar Daniel – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This article aims to explain the ultimate organisation of the Argentinian educational system during the 1870s as a result of the 1873 world economic crisis, which led, among other measures, to budget cuts. These had serious consequences in both curriculum design and the general structure of the different educational levels. Such a system fostered…
Descriptors: Educational History, Economic Climate, Foreign Countries, Budgets
Galvin Arribas, J. Manuel – European Journal of Education, 2016
This article analyses moves towards good multilevel governance approaches in Vocational Education and Training (VET) as an effective way to improve VET policy making in transition and developing countries, focusing on the Southern Neighbourhood of the EU (ENPI South). The centralised approaches in public administration and to VET governance still…
Descriptors: Governance, Vocational Education, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Hamilton, Gayle; Michalopoulos, Charles – MDRC, 2016
There is a longstanding debate about whether helping welfare recipients quickly find work or helping them to first obtain some basic education and training better improves their economic well-being. This brief contributes to the debate by presenting long-term findings from three sites in the seven-site National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education
Pollard, Kelvin; Jacobsen, Linda A. – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2017
This study examines state- and county-level data on population, age, race and ethnicity, housing occupancy and housing tenure, education, labor force, employment and unemployment, income and poverty, health insurance coverage, disability status, migration patterns, and veteran status from the 2011-2015 American Community Survey (ACS) for the 13…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Population Distribution, Population Trends, Age Differences
Windley, Georgina – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
It has been eight years since the National Indigenous Reform Agreement (also known as "Closing the Gap") set out a series of areas and targets designed to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous outcomes on a range of measures. A key objective was to halve the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Training
Walters, Peter; Whitehouse, Gillian – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Employed Women, Labor, Housework
Stange, Kevin – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2015
In the face of declining state support, many universities have introduced differential pricing by undergraduate program as an alternative to across-the-board tuition increases. This practice aligns price more closely with instructional costs and students' ability to pay postgraduation. Exploiting the staggered adoption of these policies…
Descriptors: Tuition, Student Costs, Undergraduate Students, College Programs
Wild, Mary; Silberfeld, Carolyn; Nightingale, Beverley – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
This paper considers the overt and covert discourses in two contemporary policy documents in England and Wales, "The Nutbrown Review: Foundations for Quality" ([DfE] Department for Education Department for Education. 2012. "The Nutbrown Review: Foundations for Quality: The Independent Review of Early Education and Childcare…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Labor Force, Child Care
Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2015
This study investigates the educational attainment of an aging workforce from the perspective of educational credentialing. The research questions are defined as follows: Why are workers over age 50 attaining university degrees? How do they narratively construct the rational for pursuing well-recognized credentials in midlife? The specific focus…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Labor Force, Older Adults, Educational Attainment
Chapman, Anne – Public Policy Forum, 2017
This is the third in a series of reports on public school educators in the Milwaukee area. It provides an updated analysis to a previous report, "Help Wanted: An Analysis of the Teacher Pipeline in Metro Milwaukee." This report finds that teacher turnover in both metro Milwaukee and across the state has stabilized. However a higher…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Public School Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Labor Force
Neumark, David; Johnson, Hans; Mejia, Marisol Cuellar – Economics of Education Review, 2013
The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could imply skill shortages in the U.S. economy. We develop near-term labor force projections of the educational demands on the workforce and the supply…
Descriptors: Baby Boomers, Retirement, Employment Projections, Skilled Workers
Lavrijsen, Jeroen; Nicaise, Ides – European Education, 2015
Reducing the number of early school leavers, those who quit education without at least a high school degree, is a key objective of educational policy throughout Europe. Previous research has shown that in particular youngsters from disadvantaged families face relatively high risks of school dropout. In this paper we use data from the 2009 ad hoc…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Role, Dropouts, Labor Force