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DeMark, Sarah; Kozyrev, Joann – Journal of Competency-Based Education, 2021
Individuals need the shortest path to opportunity and employers require the shortest path to a skilled diverse workforce. To solve for this, Western Governors University (WGU) has created a skills-based architecture to map our competencies and credentials to high-demand knowledge, and technical skills as well as powerful, enduring, employability…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential, Job Skills
Vasquez, Bricio Emmanuel – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation is centered on further understanding the warehousing hypothesis. This is a phenomenon where college enrollment patterns across the U.S. are driven by labor market conditions. The interrelated nature of individual and structural level processes motivates the fundamental question driving my research: how do race and ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Enrollment, Labor Market, Race
Goger, Annelies; Parco, Allyson; Carter-Rau, Rohan; Henderson, Jessa; Homma, Kazumi; Meliksetyan, Ani; Milman, Natalie – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2022
This report examines how digital credentials and learning and employment records (LERs) are shaping the ways people access education and career opportunities around the world. In this report, the authors share key findings from their research on digital credentials and LERs and present three detailed case studies of initiatives to govern and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Academic Records, Employment Patterns, Access to Education
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Coxhead, Ian; Vuong, Nguyen Dinh Tuan; Nguyen, Phong – Education Economics, 2023
Blue-collar employment growth increases schooling opportunities by raising incomes, but also reduces incentives for some students to advance beyond compulsory education. These contradictory influences may help to explain relatively slow and uneven growth of progression to upper-secondary schooling in Vietnam, which has experienced a foreign…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Dropouts, Manufacturing
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Andersson, Per; Muhrman, Karolina – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Context: This study is about vocational education and training for adults within municipal adult education (MAE). Sweden has a long tradition of adult education, and has one of the world's highest proportions of participants in adult education. The Swedish education system is characterised by extensive marketisation with many private actors,…
Descriptors: Marketing, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Municipalities
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Joseph, Ebun – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2019
Black Africans across Europe who report higher levels of discrimination in employment encounter systemic resistance in their career pursuits. In this article, discrimination in the Irish labour market is creatively challenged by centring race, and juxtaposing the experiences of migrants of Black African descent against their White counterparts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Discrimination, Migrants, Blacks
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Desjardins, Richard – International Review of Education, 2019
This article presents recent evidence of the labour market outcomes of adult education from a global perspective. There is evidence that adult education has positive impacts on a wide range of labour market outcomes, including enhancement of employment and career prospects, of performance and earnings, of job satisfaction and commitment to work,…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Adult Education, Outcomes of Education, Global Approach
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Schwerter, Jakob; Ilg, Lena – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Many women do not work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations even though they have degrees in these subjects. To shed light on this problem, we use information from the German Graduate Panel and show a significant gender gap among STEM graduates working in degree-related occupations after graduation. Therefore, we…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Labor Market, STEM Education, College Graduates
Ana Carolina Trindade Ribeiro – ProQuest LLC, 2023
It is generally accepted that education is a powerful enabler of social mobility in the modern world. However, access to quality and specialized education is still highly unequal, creating pathways for some groups of people and barriers to others. This dissertation explores three approaches to understanding and addressing inequalities of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Individual Characteristics, Sex
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Morrison, Andrew – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
This article applies Paul Gomberg's theory of contributive justice to the problematic of working-class graduates' access to skilled and meaningful work in the UK. I begin by outlining Gomberg's argument for the importance of quality work as a key social good. I then draw upon a range of sociologically-informed literature to offer a two-fold…
Descriptors: Working Class, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Foreign Countries
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Esentas, Melike; Guzel, Pinar; Vural, Mehmet – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2019
The aim of this study was to examine the views of the first graduates of the Exercise and Sports Department for Disabled on the employment situation and their attitudes towards disability. In the research we tried to determine the opinions of the first graduates of the Exercise and Sports Education Department for Disabled about the employment…
Descriptors: Exercise, Athletics, Disabilities, Employment Level
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Wright, Ewan; Mulvey, Benjamin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
Internships have become an important means to enhance career prospects in an increasingly congested graduate labour market. This article used positional conflict theory to explore how university students from different social class backgrounds experience internships, and the implications for inequalities in post-graduation employment. One-hundred…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, College Seniors, College Graduates, Middle Class
Gardner, Phil – Collegiate Employment Research Institute, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic, a non-economic event, has accelerated trends already emerging throughout the workplace, specifically remote work, technological job displacement, and growing disparity between those with a college degree (post-K12) and those without. In planning for this year's Recruiting Trends project, it was decided to keep the survey…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Employment, Personnel Selection, COVID-19
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Jones, Karen – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Against a background of Bologna process goals to improve employment prospects for PhD graduates, and the crisis of precarious employment conditions and prospects afflicting postdoctoral researchers -- hitherto postdocs, the OECD ([2021], "Reducing the Precarity of Academic Research Careers." In "OECD Science, Technology and Industry…
Descriptors: Postdoctoral Education, Doctoral Degrees, College Graduates, Gender Differences
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Harris, Julie C.; Warner, Miya T.; Yee, Kaily; Wilkerson, Stephanie B. – Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2020
To help students leave high school on a path toward success in the labor market, education policymakers and practitioners often focus on improving career and technical education (CTE) opportunities in high school. Understanding the alignment between high school CTE programs and the labor market is an important step in this process. To support CTE…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship
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