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Arabsheibani, G. Reza; Rees, Hedley – Economics of Education Review, 1998
Reestimates the P-test in the United Kingdom, correcting for the possible endogeneity of employment sector. Results do not support the strong screening hypothesis. After accounting for selectivity bias regarding choice of employment sector, the rate of return for the private sector is still higher than for the public sector. In 1985, an extra year…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment

Kerckhoff, Alan C.; Raudenbush, Stephen W.; Glennie, Elizabeth – Sociology of Education, 2001
Compares the degree to which educational attainment and cognitive skill explain labor force outcomes, both in occupational status and earnings. Reveals that educational attainment and cognitive skill contribute independently in subsamples of whites, blacks, and Hispanics but in different ways and degrees. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Ability, Educational Attainment, Employment Level
Hills, John; Waldfogel, Jane – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
U.S. welfare reforms, whether promoting work first or human capital development, have had in common an emphasis on employment as the key to improving the life chances of children living in single-mother families. We describe in this article a different type of reform--a "third way" in welfare reform. The welfare reforms carried out in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Tax Credits, Social Isolation

Seefeldt, Kristin S.; Orzol, Sean M. – Social Work Research, 2005
The 1996 welfare reform made extended welfare stays more difficult. One of the most notable provisions was the 60-month lifetime limit on cash benefits through the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. This study investigated the personal characteristics associated with accumulating more months on TANF. Using four waves of data…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients, Family Programs, Program Evaluation

Ravanera, Zenaida R.; Rajulton, Fernando; Turcotte, Pierre – Youth & Society, 2003
Integration is social cohesion measured at the individual level. Examines three of its dimensions--inclusion, participation, and belonging--using data from the General Social Surveys on Time Use. Describes the inclusion and participation of Canadians age 15-29 years in 1986, 1992, and 1998; examines differences by age group and gender; and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Community, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
Grayson, J. Paul – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2004
In Canada, little attention has been paid to the extent to which job outcomes are the result of the human capital honed in university or of broader social dynamics. Combining the fundamental insights of status attainment and cultural reproduction theories with propositions of the college impact model, the current study examines the effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Employment Level, Outcomes of Education
Deer, Cecile; de Meulemeester, Jean-Luc – Compare A Journal of Comparative Education, 2004
In this article we analyse the role given to education and training by policy-makers in France and Britain from 1980 onwards, in relation to their overall chosen economic (and social) strategies, and highlight conjunctions between education, exchange-rate regimes, and the level of economic openness. Britain opted for a monetarist route against…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Human Capital, Change Strategies
Muller, Tanja R. – Compare A Journal of Comparative Education, 2004
Human resource development as an objective of education policy in developing countries is increasingly narrowed down to its human capital component. In Eritrea, the objective of a highly centralized human resource development strategy is to produce human capital for the advancement of the nation. This instrumentalist view ignores the fact that…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Gender Issues
Kang, Trivina – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2004
This paper presents the 2002 Junior College/Upper Secondary Review in Singapore in the context of the nation-state's commitment to human capital investment. It discusses how these changes have led to a radically altered upper secondary educational landscape through the implementation of the Integrated Programme, the establishment of Specialized…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Two Year Colleges, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Skuras, Dimitris; Meccheri, Nicolas; Moreira, Manuel Belo; Rosell, Jordi; Stathopoulou, Sophia – Journal of Rural Studies, 2005
The paper presents the processes of entrepreneurial human capital accumulation and its impact on rural business growth. Data are derived from four surveys on rural businesses in mountainous and less favoured areas in Southern Europe. Formal pathways of entrepreneurial human capital accumulation refer to education and training, while informal…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Surveys
Castrillon, Isabel Dieguez; Cantorna, Ana I. Sinde – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: The aim of this article is to gain insight into some of the factors that determine personnel-training efforts in companies introducing advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs). The study provides empirical evidence from a sector with high rates of technological modernisation. Design/methodology/approach: "Ad hoc" survey of 90…
Descriptors: Industrial Training, Labor Force Development, Manufacturing Industry, Technological Advancement
Liegeois, Jean-Pierre – European Education, 2007
The trajectory of the Roma is illuminating for understanding the social situation of other minorities, but also for a set of issues concerning the multiculturalism present within states. In this article, the author discusses the context of Roma education--marked by the stateless and marginalized status of the Roma--and provides a brief history of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Change, Ethnic Groups
Katseli, Louka T.; Lucas, Robert E. B.; Xenogiani, Theodora – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This report evaluates the evidence on how migration may promote or hinder development in countries of origin, and explores possible win-win solutions for both sending and receiving countries. The analysis of recent OECD data of foreign-born nationals into Europe documents the presence of multiple migration patterns and reveals that the EU lags…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Migration Patterns, Human Resources
Sokatch, Andrew – Education and Urban Society, 2006
The roles that peers play in the decision to go to college are not well understood. Logistic regression is used to explore the role that peers play in the college-going decisions of a sample of low-income urban minority public high school graduates drawn from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:88) database. Friends' plans are found to…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Socioeconomic Status, Urban Youth, Peer Groups
Cline, Andrew R. – Community Literacy Journal, 2006
Integrity is commonly conflated with basic literacy in assessments of the skills workers need. This case study of a word-based character education program in Springfield, Missouri examines how business leaders may blame a lack of skills by employees on a lack of moral literacy. The premise of this essay is that the expression of a literacy program…
Descriptors: Literacy, Values Education, Community Programs, Integrity