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Pivovarova, Margarita; Powers, Jeanne M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
In this study, we investigated the factors associated with education-job mismatches among US workers by immigrant generation. We used the data from the U.S. sample of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and documented the distribution of education-job mismatches across selected independent variables. We…
Descriptors: Adults, Immigrants, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
Piróg, Danuta; Hibszer, Adam – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
One of the important roles of HE institutions is to train graduates who will smoothly enter the labour market. The literature review demonstrates that one effective method to facilitate this transition is to ensure students acquire professional experience. The aim was to establish the scale and characteristics of employers' demand for work…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Job Skills, Occupational Information
Zakiy, Muhammad – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2021
Purpose: Academic achievement is not a determinant of college graduates' work readiness, but it requires adequate knowledge and skills to be accepted to work in companies. The purpose of this study is to describe the phenomenon of recruitment in Islamic banking, the obstacles faced by applicants and recommendations for Islamic economics…
Descriptors: Religious Colleges, Islam, Banking, Barriers
Jennifer L. Nelson; Steven P. Vallas – Grantee Submission, 2021
Recent research on racial inequality at work offers fruitful new insights on the organizational conditions that foster racial segregation, racial disparities in wages, and racial hierarchies in the labor market and the workplace. Much less is known, however, about the specifically occupational influences that impinge on equitable work outcomes by…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Work Environment, Salary Wage Differentials, Employment Practices
Allison BrckaLorenz; Heather Haeger; Christen Priddie – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2021
The lack of diversity in STEM professions is an ongoing concern for the US both in terms of social justice and in having a globally competitive workforce. This study provides information for campus leaders to be proactive in considering a wide array of identities to meet the needs of students beyond attending to structural forms of diversity. Data…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, STEM Education, College Students, Inclusion
Loku, Afrim; Loku, Nadire – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2022
The goal of every young person not only in Kosovo but also beyond remains to find a job that would be safe and liked by them. The young years for all young people are rightly considered as one of the most important challenges, as each of these age groups is at the "crossroads" of a weighty decision for his/her future. This time consists…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Level, Unemployment, Outcomes of Education
Cui, Sheng; Wu, Qiuxiang; Erdemir, Burcu – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The authors explored the effect of college student leader experience on students' employment prospects, such as their starting salary. The authors also examined the factors behind being a student leader and the set of skills that foster the effect of leadership experience. Design/methodology/approach: Using an empirical panel survey, the…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Employment Opportunities, Problem Solving, Interpersonal Competence
Fulton, Mary – Education Commission of the States, 2022
At least 46 states have set postsecondary attainment goals to improve the educational opportunities and livelihoods of their citizens and to meet workforce demands in a changing labor market. While the data is still emerging, the widespread use of administrative holds by postsecondary institutions may be undermining state education and workforce…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Attainment, Educational Opportunities
Jobs for the Future, 2018
In the nation today, 4.6 million young adults ages 16 to 24 are out of school and unemployed. More than one-third live in poverty. For these young people, commonly referred to as opportunity youth, building skills and gaining work experience are key to upward mobility. However, they face significant barriers to entering the labor market.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Adults, Job Skills
Agbonlahor, Osasohan; Ampaw, Frim – Journal of International Students, 2021
This study used the Survey of Earned Doctorates, World Bank economic data of the doctoral students' home country, and hierarchical linear modeling analysis to examine the effects of financial factors and home-country macroeconomic indicators on international doctoral students' labor market destinations. We found that wealth disparities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Doctoral Students, Labor Market, Employment Potential
Donovan, William – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2021
For many years the co-operative education program at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Boston has fallen short of supporters' hopes for it. The number of students it placed in paid jobs with local employers was often below that of co-op programs at other career vocational technical education (CVTE) schools and mostly focused on…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, High School Students, Cooperative Programs, Job Training
Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda; Taylor, Roderick – National Skills Coalition, 2023
Even before the coronavirus pandemic began, policymakers, businesses, and workforce advocates were already recognizing that workers were not being replaced by robots, but rather, being called upon to work hand-in-glove with rapidly evolving technology. When the pandemic struck, millions of U.S. companies hustled to change how they did business.…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, 21st Century Skills, Labor Market, Labor Needs
Amior, Michael – Centre for Economic Performance, 2019
Better-educated workers form many more long-distance job matches, and they move more quickly following local employment shocks. I argue this is a consequence of larger dispersion in wage offers, independent of geography. In a frictional market, this generates larger surpluses for workers in new matches, which can better justify the cost of moving…
Descriptors: Migration, Skilled Workers, Wages, Labor Market
Anuj Gupta; Susan Miller-Cochran – Composition Forum, 2024
Mental health challenges, notably anxiety, disproportionately affect graduate students, with research indicating a 41% prevalence rate compared to the general population (Evans et al.). Academic writing anxiety (AWA) stands out among these concerns, correlating with lower grades, self-esteem, and self-efficacy (Martinez et al.; Daly and Wilson;…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Anxiety, Metacognition
Karhina, Kateryna; Ineland, Jens; Vikström, Lotta – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
People with intellectual disabilities are the most disadvantaged group among all disability types when it comes to employment. In Sweden, special needs upper secondary schools prepare students with intellectual disabilities for the labour market using practice periods at workplaces. This study targets stakeholder involved in their school-to-work…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Special Needs Students