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Claire Kovach; Muhammad Maisum Murtaza; Stephen Herzenberg – Keystone Research Center, 2024
As we approach this Labor Day, the Pennsylvania economy is growing steadily. Working families are sharing in prosperity in a more sustained way than at any point since 1980--although many families still struggle to make ends meet and, in our polarized nation, a big partisan divide exists in perceptions of whether the economy is better than four…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Development, Trend Analysis, Labor Market
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Ruixin Wei – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Chinese student mobility has diversified with the rise of educational hubs in Asia. However, the literature primarily focuses on student mobility to Anglophone universities. This study conceptualises Chinese students studying in South Korea as participating in a positional competition, wherein the concepts of middling mobility and emerging…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries, Labor Market
Nicole L. Brock – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The phenomenological methodology employed in this dissertation delves into the intricate interplay between stress, mental health, and socioeconomic mobility among Black individuals in the United States. This study aimed to shed light on the complex difficulties experienced by Black people navigating surroundings, mostly White, in academic and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Stress Variables, Mental Health
Vilsack, Rachel – National Skills Coalition, 2021
Jobs and the labor market have changed dramatically. The COVID-19 pandemic put millions of people, across all industries, out of work and disproportionately impacted workers of color, women, and workers without a college degree. This toolkit provides a map for how states that are looking to improve credential quality and transparency can use the…
Descriptors: Credentials, State Policy, Educational Quality, Labor Market
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Ruth Brooks; Tray Yeadon-Lee; Santokh Singh Gill – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
Gender inequality in the workplace remains a persistent issue that impacts upon women from their first point of entry into the labour market. In this paper, we explore the experiences, of 20 women in the UK as they take their initial steps onto the career ladder upon graduation. Adopting an interpretive methodology that uses a Bourdieusian…
Descriptors: Females, Careers, Experience, Labor Market
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Tomlinson, Michael; Reedy, Florence; Burg, Damon – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
This article examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on recent UK graduates' initial employment outcomes and how they experience the transition into a challenging labour market context. We draw on longitudinal survey and interview data, collected from recent graduates who had mainly graduated during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Employment Opportunities, Outcomes of Education
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Xie, Xin; Yang, Minseok; Batt, Lena; Gandy-Fastovich, Lydia; Rodriguez-Escutia, Yasmin; Yang, Hyunwoo; You, Eunji; Goff, Peter – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2021
This study develops, validates, and applies a teacher applicant typology using labor market data. We construct our typology by applying a correlated topic model to 11,000 personal statements teachers submitted as part of their applications for open positions in Wisconsin public schools between 2015 and 2017. We identify seven types of teacher…
Descriptors: Teachers, Job Applicants, Teacher Placement, Personal Narratives
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Shi Hu; Leili Jin; Michelle Hood; Peter A. Creed – Journal of Career Development, 2024
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for young people in the labor market. Based on an evolutionary life history perspective, we tested how and when perceived scarcity of job opportunities during the pandemic related to job search outcomes. Using a sample of Master's student graduates (N = 1434; 40.2% female; mean age 25.6 years)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Graduate Students
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Tian, Ye; Chen, Kuang-Hua; Yang, TianTian – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the supply-and-demand dynamics in the library and information science (LIS) academic market in China. This analysis is based on a broad concept of academic market and large-scale labor-market data. The authors find a shift in faculty positions, in which traditional positions in universities and research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Science, Labor Market, College Faculty
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Mihut, Georgiana – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Do employers prioritize university prestige above an applicant's skills in the hiring process? To distinguish between the effect of human capital in the hiring process from the effect of the name of the graduating university--while controlling for networking effects--2,400 fictitious applications were submitted to IT and accounting jobs in the US,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Universities, Job Applicants
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Manuel Souto-Otero; Phillip Brown – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
How the labour market operates in an increasingly digital context has remained under-researched. The article explains why the digital labour market is in urgent need of study, as digitalisation transforms how labour markets are structured and shape the competition for jobs. Digital tools give job seekers new ways of describing themselves and give…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Technological Advancement, Education Work Relationship, Career Information Systems
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Tanja Richter; Björn Kjellgren – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Engineering curricula need to integrate global competence learning to ensure that graduates can succeed in globalised labour markets. In this context, this study examines disciplinary engineering courses, focusing on the key characteristics of globally competent educators and teaching approaches in terms of learning environments and course…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Global Approach, Labor Market, Employment Opportunities
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Hoidn, Sabine; Štastný, Vít – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
This paper compares within-country programmes of initial vocational education and training (IVET) in Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany and their outcomes. Specifically, it aims to analyse and compare the labour market success of graduates of different tracks at the ISCED 3 level in both early and later stages of their careers. The comparison…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Vocational Education, Dual Enrollment, Cross Cultural Studies
Daryl Monear; Isaac Kwakye; Mark Lundgren; Rebecca Byrne; Summer Kenesson; Travis Dulany; David Wallace; Terje Gjertsen; Erika Borg; Kristofer Johnson – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2023
The Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC) has prepared this analysis in collaboration with the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC), the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board (Workforce Board), and the Association of Washington Business, as part of a broad educational needs assessment outlined in RCW…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Alignment (Education), Needs Assessment
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Walters, David; Zarifa, David; Etmanski, Brittany – Higher Education Policy, 2021
While most doctoral students aspire to become a full-time professor, many graduates with doctoral degrees may instead be employed in temporary positions as university teachers or researchers. The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which these early employment experiences differ for doctoral graduates of various fields of study, using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Doctoral Degrees, College Faculty
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