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Joo, Lan – International Education Studies, 2018
The study examined the prevailing assumption of education's role in labor market outcomes using samples from Korea's young adult population. KEEP, collected annually by KRIVET since 2004, includes an initial sample in 2004 of 12th graders from both general and vocational high schools; the sample size reflected a total of 2000 students for each…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Labor Market, Vocational High Schools, High School Students
Kis, Viktoria; Windisch, Hendrickje Catriona – OECD Publishing, 2018
This paper looks at the importance of mechanisms that give formal recognition to vocational skills acquired through work-based learning and how such mechanisms might be developed. It describes how skill recognition can benefit individuals, employers and society as a whole, and identifies in which contexts skill recognition has the highest…
Descriptors: Job Skills, On the Job Training, Skill Development, Professional Recognition
Knight, David S.; Olofson, Mark W.; Yang, Shenshen – Texas Education Research Center, 2018
This policy brief presents evidence that historically underserved students in Texas are less likely to be assigned to the most qualified and effective educators. Prior research and policy efforts have focused on teacher and principal sorting across schools in the same district, and districts' employee transfer provisions. Yet this study…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Effectiveness, Administrator Effectiveness, Principals
European Training Foundation, 2018
This report provides an overview of key policy developments in education, training, and employment in Algeria. The paper contains sections that review the country's key demographic and economic characteristics; education and training trends, challenges, policy and institutional setting; and labour market and employment trends, challenges, policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Page, Lindsay – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Often, in the case of experimental evaluations of multifaceted interventions, researchers and policymakers alike are interested in asking not only whether a given intervention had an effect but also why. They seek answers to questions such as: What features of the intervention led to the impacts that we have observed, or what was the causal…
Descriptors: Intervention, Methods, Models, Labor Market
O'Higgins, Niall; Bruggemann, Christian – European Educational Research Journal, 2013
Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other--or both. A number of studies have found that significant labour market inequalities persist even after the low levels of educational attainment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Migrants, Labor Market
Baruch, Yehuda – Career Development International, 2013
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the contrast between stable and dynamic labour markets in academe in light of career theories that were originally developed for business environments. Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual design, offering the eco-system as a framework. Findings: It evaluates their relevance and applicability to dynamic and…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Career Development, Labor Market, Higher Education
Dunn, Sydni – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
In a tight job market, visiting professorships can be appealing way stations for new Ph.D.'s while they search for permanent posts. Unlike adjunct positions, which are often renewed semester by semester, visiting professorships are set by annual or even multiyear contracts, with most capped at three years. The visiting jobs often come with health…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Labor Market, Higher Education, College Faculty
Melguizo, Tatiana; Zamarro, Gema; Velasco, Tatiana; Sanchez, Fabio J. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
The main objective of this study is to empirically test a number of theory-based models (i.e., fixed effects [FE], random effects [RE], and aggregated residuals [AR]) to measure the generic knowledge as well as the degree attainment rates and early labor outcomes gained by students in different programs and institutions in higher education. Our…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Academic Degrees, Educational Attainment, Outcomes of Education
Capková, Halka; Kroupová, Jarmila – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2017
One of the main concerns of educational specialists is the relevance of their programmes to the graduates' success on today's highly competitive labour market. As a result of these concerns academics at the English Department of the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic decided to conduct a survey of undergraduates, graduates and their…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Needs Assessment, Instructional Materials, Undergraduate Students
Bruce, Caula Andrea – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The remarkable economic success of the Cayman Islands is primarily driven by its large expatriate population. Expatriates make up over one-third of the total population of the Islands and half of the labor force. This has led some Caymanians to demand more opportunities for local individuals. However in April 2014, one of the two local newspapers…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Latin Americans, Case Studies, Foreign Nationals
Ackehurst, Maree; Polvere, Rose-Anne; Windley, Georgina – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
Indigenous educational and employment disadvantage is a much researched and discussed subject. The latest Prime Minister's Closing the Gap report (DPM&C 2017) shows that, while the gap is slowly decreasing in regard to participation in tertiary education, reducing employment disparity, particularly in remote areas, lags behind. This is despite…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Postsecondary Education
Bondarenko, Natal'ia – Russian Education & Society, 2015
This article analyzes the characteristics of the existing and expected deficit of professional skills and qualities of workers employed by Russian companies. Analyzed factors include generic skills, soft or behavioral skills, the influence of the qualification, and shortage on the effectiveness of the companies as a whole. The data is based on a…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Supply and Demand, Labor Needs, Foreign Countries
Hall, Richard – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
In understanding the changes that are impacting the global higher education sector, developing a critique of the relationships between technology and technological innovation, new managerialism and financialisation, and the impact of the secular crisis of global capitalism is critical. Moreover, it is important to critique these changes…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Class Size, Distance Education
Albashiry, Nabeel M.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Aligning vocational curricula with the labor market needs is a common reported challenge in developing countries. Little is known, however, about how vocational community colleges in such contexts regularly review and redesign their curricula to ensure the quality and relevance of their programs. From a curriculum design (CD) perspective, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Colleges, Vocational Schools, Curriculum Design