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Allaa Barefah – Journal of Education for Business, 2024
Businesses use data to enhance operational performance, creating demand for professionally trained data/business analytics graduates. Universities offer a variety of academic programs in response to the increasing labor market demands. Yet, research on how well educational offerings adapt to market demand is scant. This paper aims to evaluate how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Web Sites, College Programs
Claire Kovach; Muhammad Maisum Murtaza; Stephen Herzenberg – Keystone Research Center, 2024
As we approach this Labor Day, the Pennsylvania economy is growing steadily. Working families are sharing in prosperity in a more sustained way than at any point since 1980--although many families still struggle to make ends meet and, in our polarized nation, a big partisan divide exists in perceptions of whether the economy is better than four…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Development, Trend Analysis, Labor Market
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Neta Kela Madar; Avshalom Danoch – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Israel has worked to improve the accessibility of its higher education to under-served communities, but lower socioeconomic students, as well as those of certain ethnic backgrounds, remain disadvantaged. Unfortunately, some 'second chance' programs developed to help facilitate admission to higher education have only increased this inequality. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Engineering Education
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Ruixin Wei – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Chinese student mobility has diversified with the rise of educational hubs in Asia. However, the literature primarily focuses on student mobility to Anglophone universities. This study conceptualises Chinese students studying in South Korea as participating in a positional competition, wherein the concepts of middling mobility and emerging…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries, Labor Market
Katherine Zhou – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation studies opportunity and equity in college admissions, as well as how higher education affects labor market outcomes. The first two chapters explore how state policies affect enrollment at public institutions of higher education. The third chapter characterizes outcomes in a labor market in which agents with different skill levels…
Descriptors: College Admission, Labor Market, State Policy, Public Colleges
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Wesley Morris – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Over the past several years, numerous news stories have highlighted school districts' struggles in attracting personnel to adequately staff their schools. While these stories provide important anecdotes, there is little comprehensive work that documents school districts' demand for teachers, paraprofessionals, and other essential…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Personnel Selection, Demand Occupations, Teacher Supply and Demand
Stephanie Blochinger; Candace Williams; Madison Myers; Sean Crowley; Kristen Fox – Business-Higher Education Forum, 2024
The pace of economic and technological change is accelerating, creating both challenges and opportunities for businesses, higher education institutions, and learners. To support higher education, business, nonprofit, and government leaders in achieving that vision, the Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF) conducted its first annual State of…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, Universities, Industry
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Wang, Geng; Wang, Zhonghan – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
In the Reform Era, the Chinese Government has placed great emphasis on the role of education in ensuring the economic success of individuals and of the country as a whole. While vocational and academic post-secondary qualifications are officially set at the same level, vocational education is positioned at the bottom of the educational hierarchy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Vocational Education, Academic Education
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Park, Kyung Hee; Yu, Jinyoung – Cogent Education, 2023
This study explored the mechanism of labor market performance by confirming the role of secondary vocational education for young Korean employees of high school graduates. To this end, we focused on the Meister High School (MHS) policy for fostering the lead in secondary vocational education in Korea. In comparative perspective, data from 2,344…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Secondary Education, Vocational Education
Davies, Howard – European University Association, 2023
This briefing reports on recent developments affecting Europe's recognition regimes -- both professional and academic. At the start of 2023, the European Year of Skills, the author looks at the context facing higher education stakeholders across four areas: the European labour market, Ukraine, developments in the higher education sector and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Recognition, International Cooperation, Foreign Policy
Nicole L. Brock – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The phenomenological methodology employed in this dissertation delves into the intricate interplay between stress, mental health, and socioeconomic mobility among Black individuals in the United States. This study aimed to shed light on the complex difficulties experienced by Black people navigating surroundings, mostly White, in academic and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Stress Variables, Mental Health
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Fregin, Marie-Christine; Levels, Mark; van der Velden, Rolf – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article provides empirical evidence on the relation between institutional characteristics of labour markets that frame allocation processes, and optimal skill matching at the individual level. We investigate the extent to which skill-based job-worker matches are associated with employment protection legislation (EPL), unemployment benefits,…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Resource Allocation, Job Skills, Labor Legislation
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Amin, Aloysius Ajab; Ntembe, Augustin – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Although higher education plays a vital role in the socio-economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa, enrollment in universities in the region is unexpectedly low compared to other regions. However, Sub-Saharan African countries have made strides in increasing access to higher education amidst constraints and challenges. The efforts have led to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education, Educational Finance
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Wydra-Somaggio, Gabriele – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Dropping out of the educational system has marked negative consequences in the labour market. Dropping out is followed by an early termination that does not necessarily mean leaving the educational system without graduating. Trainees may reassess their initial choice by starting another vocational education and training (VET) programme and…
Descriptors: Stopouts, Dropouts, Decision Making, Persistence
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Fortwengel, Johann; Gospel, Howard; Toner, Phillip – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021
This study analyses attempts to renew apprenticeship over the last three decades in three liberal market economies -- US, England and Australia. We conceptualise institutional renewal as entailing both revival, or growth in apprentice starts, "and" extension, or widening its occupational base. The paper contributes to the literature by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education
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