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Rose, Philip – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
Internship participation has undergone rapid expansion over the last three decades, to the point where today many interns and host organizations regard internships as the preferred pathway into entry-level professional positions. However, organizational research has largely neglected the investigation of internships as an employment context, thus…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness, Wages, Supervisors
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Pena, Anita Alves – Education Economics, 2015
Job training and employment assistance programs aim to assist migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents locate steady employment and develop job skills. This study investigates effects of educational programs on wages, annual time allocations, and poverty of male and female farmworkers and their families using regression analysis in…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Agricultural Laborers, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness
Groves, Garrett; Palmer, Iris – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2015
Governors plays a central role in ensuring that public educational institutions provide students with the knowledge and abilities required for a successful life and career. The systemic use of data from education and labor markets informs governors and other policymakers of the effectiveness and efficiency of their existing postsecondary systems…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market, Data
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Boyce, Jared; Bowers, Alex J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which there is a typology of principals who depart from their schools in the U.S. using the 2007-2008 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 2008-2009 Principal Follow-up Survey. Prior principal retention research has focused on identifying factors that predict principal turnover; however,…
Descriptors: Principals, Labor Turnover, Administrative Change, Followup Studies
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Aydede, Yigit; Orbay, Benan Zeki – European Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This paper aims to develop a better understanding about the labour market dynamics behind the unparalleled demand in higher education and dragging growth rates in vocational high school (VHS) education in Turkey. While estimating labour market outcomes of fields of study has been the subject of many studies in the West, such studies are lacking in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Majors (Students), Labor Market, Educational Policy
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Lin, Yung-feng – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
Widened participation in post-compulsory and higher education is generally regarded as a result of the growing recognition of the internal and external benefits of higher education, which are categorised either as a private or public good. However, a question can be raised: once these incentives become less promising or less evident, will a strong…
Descriptors: Incentives, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship
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Prakhov, Ilya – Higher Education Quarterly, 2016
This paper examines the characteristics of students admitted to Russian universities with different levels of selectivity. First, we argue that students differ not only by the results of the Unified State Exam (USE), the university entrance exam, but by family and school characteristics, and by educational strategies. Next, it is shown that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Higher Education, College Attendance
Lundy-Wagner, Valeria; Chan, Eric W. – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2016
Calls to increase the number of undergraduate STEM credential recipients have largely failed to differentiate between sub-baccalaureate and four-year credentials at the undergraduate level, which is problematic for workforce development. In this paper, the authors develop a classification system for sub-baccalaureate STEM credentials that is…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community Colleges, Skill Development, Labor Force Development
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Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999 to 2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that the California program…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fringe Benefits, Leaves of Absence, Evidence
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2018
Virginia faces a future in which higher education will play an increasingly important role. Virginians will need deeper and broader knowledge and skills to be engaged, productive participants in the evolving Commonwealth and its economy. At the same time, the demographics of the emerging generation are changing, as an increasing share of youth…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Statewide Planning, Higher Education, State Policy
Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 2012
This article illustrates projected employment change by industry and industry sector over 2010-20 decade. Workers are grouped into an industry according to the type of good produced or service provided by the establishment for which they work. Industry employment projections are shown in terms of numeric change (growth or decline in the total…
Descriptors: Industry, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Salary Wage Differentials
Council of the Great City Schools, 2021
In 2002 the Council of the Great City Schools and its members set out to develop performance measures that could be used to improve business operations in urban public school districts. The Council launched the Performance Measurement and Benchmarking Project to achieve these objectives. The purposes of the project were to: (1) Establish a common…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance
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Borradaile, Kelley; Martinez, Alina; Schochet, Peter – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2021
Adult education's mission is a critical one. It seeks to provide the large and diverse population of adults who lack basic skills, a high school credential, or English language skills with the competencies they need to be productive workers, family members, and citizens. Federally funded adult education serves learners in three types of programs:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Federal Legislation, Labor Legislation, Labor Force Development
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Lee, Young-Min; Cho, Sung-Eun – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the status of recent Korean four-year college students' acquisition of vocational qualification certificates (hereinafter "certificates" or "qualifications"), the factors that influence certificate acquisition, and the resulting employment and wage effects.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Vocational Education, Employment Qualifications
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Morgan, Clara – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
The article challenges the deficit view in which education in the Arab region is portrayed by examining the process of educational regionalisation. It takes as its case study the Arab Regional Agenda for Improving Educational Quality in order to explore the construction of an educational quality space that uses data as a governance model. Drawing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Educational Quality, Geographic Regions
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