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Tampieri, Alessandro – Education Economics, 2016
This paper proposes a theory on how students' social background affects their school attainment and job opportunities. I study a set-up where students differ in ability and social background, and I analyse the interaction between a school and an employer. Students with disadvantaged background are penalised compared to other students: they receive…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Educational Opportunities, Employment Opportunities, Educational Attainment
Wilson-Gürler, Tara; Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Bhatti, Feyza A. – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
The aim of this study was to explore international university students' perceptions on future global employment opportunities and expectations with regard to workplace diversity. The study employs a qualitative approach, and the data were collected from nine study groups with thirty-eight voluntary students from twenty-one different countries…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Employment Opportunities, Global Approach
Zhonglu, Li – Chinese Education & Society, 2022
As the number of graduates from institutions of higher education has soared year after year, alongside growth in the demand for high-end talent posed by economic development, a growing number of graduates from undergraduate programs are choosing to continue on to receive graduate education, so as to improve their competitive advantage in the labor…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys
Lang, Kevin; Kahn-Lang Spitzer, Ariella – Future of Children, 2020
In this article, economists Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer take up the expansive issue of discrimination, examining specifically how discrimination and bias shape people's outcomes. The authors focus primarily on discrimination by race, while acknowledging that discrimination exists along many other dimensions as well, including gender,…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Racial Bias, Labor Market, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Tran, Ly Thi; Blackmore, Jill; Rahimi, Mark – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2021
Purpose: International student employability has been accorded increased emphasis in the internationalisation agendas, especially in major destination countries as it shapes universities' attractiveness to prospective international students. Having insights into returning graduates' employability in their home country has become critical given…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, College Graduates, Employment Opportunities, Employment Qualifications
Wharton-Beck, Aura – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2021
The present historical case study was conducted in order to examine the unspoken narratives of six African American Government Girls who worked for the federal government during World War II. The present study documented the lives and experiences of six women employed by the U.S. federal government. Their deliberate decision to become civil…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Government Employees, Federal Government
Curran, Chris – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background/Context: TFA represents an influential yet controversial preparation route for new teachers. In recent years, TFA has received criticism from traditionally trained teachers and schools of education on the basis that they are crowding out or taking positions away from non-TFA teachers. Despite this criticism, research on TFA has tended…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Placement, Geographic Regions, School Districts
Komljenovic, Janja – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
Students, academics and university administrators are increasingly using and producing digital platforms, including social media. This paper focuses on LinkedIn to start tackling the question of the effects on higher education as a sector, its actors and the established social practices. It argues that LinkedIn moves beyond the passivity of…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Labor Market, Employment Potential
Achilles, Jenny; Ekwurzel, Erica V.; Perrault, Paul; Pietruszynski, Mary Ellen – Grantmakers for Education, 2019
Students are juggling multiple, competing priorities such as work pressures, parenting, debt, and degree affordability, as they seek the best educational decisions for their economic mobility and life goals. Driving questions of quality has been the recent effort of states to set and increase postsecondary attainment rates. These rates typically…
Descriptors: Credentials, Equal Education, Geographic Regions, Economic Development
Nachatar Singh, Jasvir Kaur – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2020
Previous scholarly work has elaborated on challenges faced by Chinese international returnees at Chinese workplaces. However, limited research has captured to what extent such challenges have involved Chinese Australian graduates in gaining employment in China. Hence this study investigates the challenges involved in obtaining successful…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Career Development, College Graduates, Alumni
Park, Toby J.; Flores, Stella M.; Ryan, Christopher J., Jr. – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Latinos have become the largest minority group in American postsecondary education, a majority of whom attend two- or four-year Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). However, little is known about labor market outcomes as result of attending these institutions. Using a unique student-level administrative database in Texas, and accounting for…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Labor Market, Institutional Characteristics, Employment Opportunities
Mourad, Maha; Meshreki, Hakim; Sarofim, Samer – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Brand equity in higher education has received significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, there are a number of contradictions between the empirically approved determinants and the dimensions of brand equity in higher education. This research empirically investigates an adopted brand equity conceptual model in both a developed market…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education, Marketing
Colleges Ontario, 2022
This report shares data relating to Ontario student and graduate profiles in the following areas: (1) College activity; (2) Numbers of Ontario college applicants, students and graduates; (3) Domestic learner demographics and characteristics; (4) Apprentices; (5) Continuing education students; (6) Graduates; (7) Perceptions; and (8) Key performance…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, College Graduates, Labor Market, College Applicants
Kortsch, Timo; Schulte, Eva-Maria; Kauffeld, Simone – European Journal of Training and Development, 2019
Purpose: In competitive labor markets, promoting employees' learning becomes a key challenge for companies. However, in small German craft companies, employee development is always connected with worries about employee turnover. This study aims to investigate the current informal learning strategies of craft workers and how they use the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Strategies, Handicrafts, Labor Market
Baker, H. Robert; Lewis, Gregory B. – History Teacher, 2020
How do history students fare in the job market? This is a pressing question these days, as history departments (along with others in the humanities) suffer declining enrollments and increased administrative and political pressure to justify their existence. As universities increasingly focus on the college-to-career transition, departments whose…
Descriptors: History, Majors (Students), Employment Potential, Departments