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Olofsson, Jonas; Kvist, Martin – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
In welfare-policy studies, conditions are often depicted at a national level. This is the case not least in studies of young people's paths and detours to working life. Studies at a high aggregation level have their advantages when it comes to distinguishing differences in living conditions between countries at similar economic development levels…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Employment, Welfare Services, Social Environment
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Friedrich, Anett; Hirtz, Sandra – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Analysing wage differentials due to educational investments within occupations can explain the persistent wage inequality in western industrialised countries, such as Germany. This article contributes to the discussion by examining occupation-specific variance in wage returns for men working full-time in Western Germany between 1976 and 2010. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Salary Wage Differentials, Occupations
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Scandurra, Rosario; Alberio, Marco – SAGE Open, 2021
This article explores cross-country patterns in how conditions relating to family background, education, and the labor market are related to literacy and numeracy skills. It seeks to assess whether these patterns are in agreement with models of skills formation as identified in the political economy literature. The novelty of this article resides…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Skills, Family Characteristics
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Zhai, Keyu; Gao, Xing – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2021
Given the growth in student mobility and transnational higher education, there is an abundance of research on international students' studying and living experiences in a new environment. However, their poststudy transitions and social mobility have rarely been touched. This study addresses how student returnees perform in China's labor market and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, Labor Market, Graduate Students
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K.A., Zakkariya; P.M., Nimmi; A., Smitha Pradeep – Journal of International Education in Business, 2021
Purpose: Perceived employability (PE) is considered as a significant psychological resource that aids individuals in tackling the complex career snags he/she faces. The purpose of this study is to develop and empirically test a theoretical model that explains how PE affects two types of job search behaviour (JSB) by bringing in job search learning…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Employment Potential, Labor Market, Goal Orientation
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Westerman, Johan – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
This study advances the analysis of cognitive skill use at work by considering another crucial factor: the motivation-to-learn (MtL). Previous research has indicated that MtL forms cognitive skills in the school setting. However, the role of MtL in the work setting is much less understood. The present study analyses the association between MtL and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Literacy, Numeracy
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Doan, Linh Dieu; Hamid, M. Obaidul – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Located in the economics of language, the present study seeks to contribute towards understanding the Vietnamese job market's demand for competency in using English. The globalization of English and the global flow of capital are factors that are changing the linguistic landscape of the world of work. However, there has been limited research on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Employment Qualifications
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Celarta, Cristina B.; Esponilla, Francisco D., II – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
Over the years, the Technological University of the Philippines sustains the rank as a highly performing State University in the Philippines in terms of the employability of the graduate students. This qualitative research aimed to explore the relevance of competencies of the graduates of Industrial Education from the school year 2013 to 2017.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industrial Education, College Graduates, Competence
Smith, Nicole – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2020
2020 will forever be remembered as the year of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. The graduating class of 2020 will face a difficult job market, and the adversities will follow them for years. New graduates facing these types of jobs numbers will be subject to "scarring"--reduced lifetime incomes caused by entering…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Potential, Labor Market, Income
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Nasir, Murtaza; Dag, Ali; Young, William A., II; Delen, Dursun – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2020
We are experiencing a significant shift in management practices--moving from intuition, experience, and gut-feeling driven decision-making to one that is driven by data, evidence, and computational sciences. This shift, which is often called the "analytics revolution," is not only changing the business landscape from a practical…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Business Administration, Labor Market, Decision Making
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Rubleske, Joseph; Fletcher, Travis; Westerfeld, Brett – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2020
Electronic sports (e-sports) can be defined as digital games played competitively for an audience (Hodge et al., 2017). With a global consumer base of roughly 450 million people and projected 2019 revenues of US$1.1 billion, the e-sports industry continues to grow (Pannekeet, 2019). Behind this growth is a thriving ecosystem which includes…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Athletics, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Black, Sandra E.; Denning, Jeffrey T.; Rothstein, Jesse – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity and has been unable to distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative…
Descriptors: Universities, College Admission, Selective Admission, Access to Education
Avery Regina Calkins – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Chapter 1 studies the change in women's college major choices in response to the dot-com crash. Although the dot-com crash had similar labor market effects for new graduates in engineering and computer science, it had different effects on who chose each major: women disproportionately left computer science, but not engineering. I investigate the…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Human Capital, Decision Making
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Mathou, Cécile; Sarazin, Marc; Dumay, Xavier – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
In this paper, we examine how evolutions related to the fragmentation of labour markets, the flexibilisation of work and employment conditions, and the multiplication of teacher training models and teachers' roles in schools, are contributing to reshaping teachers' careers. Drawing on interviews with teachers and senior leaders from 8 schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Leaders, Career Change
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Pitan, Oluyomi Susan; Muller, Colette – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2023
This study examined the extent to which experiential learning and career guidance activities, as strategies for equipping students with transferable skills, are used by Higher Education (HE) in two African countries, Nigeria and South Africa to prepare students for the volatile labour market. The contributions of the two strategies to students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Experiential Learning, Career Guidance
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