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de Meyrick, Julian; Yusuf, Farhat – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify correlates of tobacco smoking behaviour across various socio-demographic segments of the Australian population. Design/methodology/approach: Data from two nationally representative, probability samples of persons 18 and over, surveyed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2001 and 2017-2018…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Correlation, Health Behavior
Bruckmayer, Michaela; Hofman, Joanna; Feyerabend, Katrin – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in Frankfurt with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Larmour, Simon; Bruckmayer, Michaela; Hughes, Megan; Hofman, Joanna – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in Dorset and Somerset with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Bruckmayer, Michaela; Hofman, Joanna; Feyerabend, Katrin – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in Berlin with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling (training…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Lymperis, Lydia; Bruckmayer, Michaela; Hofman, Joanna; Cole, Sam – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in Edinburgh with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Larmour, Simon; Bruckmayer, Michaela; Hofman, Joanna – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in Île-De-France with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Lymperis, Lydia; Bruckmayer, Michaela; Hofman, Joanna – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in Glasgow with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling (training…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Hofman, Joanna; Smith, Pamina; Hughes, Megan; Bruckmayer, Michaela – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in London with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling (training…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Hofman, Joanna; Pardal, Mafalda; Cardoso, Frederico; Bruckmayer, Michaela – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in Madrid with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling (training…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Bruckmayer, Michaela; Amodeo, Giovanni; Lanfredi, Giulia; Hofman, Joanna – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in Milan with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling (training…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Bruckmayer, Michaela; Feyerabend, Katrin; Hofman, Joanna – RAND Europe, 2022
This study focused on people in the Ruhr Valley with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Opportunities, Sustainable Development
Syamprasad, K. V. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2019
This article aims to offer a theoretical critique of the propaganda against the affirmative action programmes, as well as to unpack the veil of merit and provide justifications for affirmative action for the underprivileged in Kerala. For this purpose, Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and its origin would be introduced as the central focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Cultural Capital, Affirmative Action
Baird, Matthew D.; Engberg, John; Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Goughnour, Thomas; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Karam, Rita T. – RAND Corporation, 2019
The Office of Workforce Development (OWD) in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, implemented Career Pathways, an innovative program designed to increase the local talent pool and help lower-skilled, unemployed, and underemployed individuals train for work in growing fields. RAND Corporation researchers evaluated…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Job Training, Job Skills, Program Effectiveness
Simsek, Meliha R. – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2022
Despite increased emphasis on the role of inclusive practices and materials in post-COVID-19 classrooms and warnings about implicit biases against disadvantaged groups, the textbook problem has rarely been approached with equity measures in mind. This multimethod study aimed to investigate to what extent L2 reading materials, locally produced and…
Descriptors: Refugees, Disadvantaged, Comparative Analysis, Grammar
Baird, Matthew D.; Engberg, John; Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Goughnour, Thomas; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Karam, Rita T. – RAND Corporation, 2019
Lower-skilled workers in the United States face a shrinking pool of employment opportunities. To combat this, the city of New Orleans' Office of Workforce Development (OWD) developed a job training program with a grant, awarded in 2014, from the U.S. Department of Labor Workforce Innovation Fund. The program, Career Pathways, was designed to help…
Descriptors: Job Training, Disadvantaged, Unskilled Workers, Career Pathways