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Simon M. Bury; Darren Hedley; Mirko Uljarevic; Xia Li; Mark A. Stokes; Sander Begeer – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic adults experience high rates of unemployment, yet research investigating what predicts employment success produces inconsistent results. By utilising longitudinal person-oriented analyses, this study aimed to identify employment trajectories of autistic adults to better understand what may predict stable autistic employment. Participants…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Profiles, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults
Walton, Douglas; Gardiner, Karen N.; Barnow, Burt – Abt Associates, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) supported 46 grantees across the country to expand registered apprenticeship into new sectors, such as healthcare, and to populations historically underrepresented in apprenticeships. DOL commissioned an evaluation of the AAI grants to build evidence about the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Federal Aid, Grants, Employers
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Lewis, Peter; Collison, James; Whitehead, Lisa; Howie, Virginia; Feighan, Sarah; Wiese, Michele; O'Reilly, Kate; Jaques, Hayden; Wilson, Nathan J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: Nurses provide technical and relational skills that are integral to the care of people with intellectual disability (ID) in Australia. However, little is known about the demographic profile of this section of the nursing workforce. Method: Administration of a survey to nurses whose primary role it is to care for people with ID…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Nurses, Labor Force, Foreign Countries
Billings, Kara Clifford; Bryan, Sylvia L.; Donovan, Sarah A. – Congressional Research Service, 2022
An estimated 339,000 workers were employed in foodservice operations in the nation's elementary and secondary schools. While news stories often focus on so-called "lunch ladies," the school foodservice workforce encompasses employees ranging from front-line cafeteria workers to chefs and food preparation staff to administrators and…
Descriptors: Food Service, Labor Force, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
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Baslevent, Cem; Kirmanoglu, Hasan – Social Indicators Research, 2013
We examine whether employees' preferences for various job attributes are associated with their individual characteristics in ways that are in line with "hierarchy of needs" theories. Using data from the fifth round of the European Social Survey, we observe the influence of socio-demographic and dispositional characteristics as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Individual Characteristics, Values, Foreign Countries
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Feist, Amber M.; Saladin, Shawn P.; Hansmann, Sandra – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
The authors used the hermeneutics approach within social cognitive career theory to explore employment trends and issues over the past 20 years relevant to Hispanic women who are deaf. Barriers to employment were discovered including discrepancies due to gender, race/ethnicity, and severity of hearing loss. Recommendations for policymakers and…
Descriptors: Females, Rehabilitation Counseling, Counselors, Vocational Rehabilitation
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Goodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the key themes in the area of the impact of demographic change on young workers and older workers in relation to education, skills and employment, as discussed in the papers included in this section. The authors have also drawn upon data from their project "From Young Workers to Older…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Older Workers, Work Life Expectancy, Employment Patterns
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Lindstrom, Lauren; Doren, Bonnie; Miesch, Jennifer – Exceptional Children, 2011
Youth with disabilities face many barriers in making the transition from high school to stable long-term employment. Researchers used case study methodology to examine the career development process and postschool employment outcomes for a sample of individuals with disabilities who were working in living wage occupations 7 to 10 years after…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Disabilities, High School Graduates, Career Development
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Van Houtte, Mieke; Stevens, Peter A. J. – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Starting from the present knowledge society with its social overvaluing of cognition and white-collar jobs at the expense of manual labour, this article examines whether school type--academic versus technical/vocational schools--relates to students' sense of futility. It assesses the schools' culture of futility and investigates the explanatory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Technical Education, School Culture
Hook, Jennifer L.; Courtney, Mark – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2010
In this issue brief, the authors explore how former foster youth in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa are faring in the labor market and what explains the variability in employment outcomes for these youth. First, they describe trends in former foster youths' employment from age 17 to 24. Then, they consider how former foster youths' characteristics…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Young Adults, Evidence, Foster Care
Miller, Cynthia; Deitch, Victoria; Hill, Aaron – MDRC, 2010
Between 2000 and 2003, the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project identified and implemented a diverse set of innovative models designed to promote employment stability and wage or earnings progression among low-income individuals, mostly current or former welfare recipients. The project's goal was to determine which strategies could…
Descriptors: Wages, Employment, Models, Welfare Recipients
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Percheski, Christine – American Sociological Review, 2008
Over the past 50 years, women's roles have changed dramatically--a reality captured by substantial increases in employment and reductions in fertility. Yet, the social organization of work and family life has not changed much, leading to pervasive work-family conflict. Observing these strains, some scholars wonder whether U.S. women's high…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Cohort Analysis, Managerial Occupations, Professional Occupations
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Nilsson, Staffan – Education & Training, 2010
Purpose: Employability includes the ability to find employment and remain employed. Employability includes both hard and soft skills, including formal and actual competence, interpersonal skills, and personal characteristics. This paper aims to focus on illuminating perceptions engineering graduates have regarding employability. More specifically,…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Curriculum Design, College Graduates, Academic Aspiration
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Salas-Velasco, Manuel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
This paper investigates the determinants of the transition from higher education to work across Europe using various specifications of duration models and a one-time multi-country survey of university graduates from nine European countries. Results point to differences between the North and South of Europe in the difficulty of getting a first job.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Labor Market
Causa, Orsetta; Jean, Sebastien – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2007
This working paper assesses the ease of immigrants' integration in OECD labour markets by estimating how an immigration background influences the probability of being active or employed and the expected hourly earnings, for given individual characteristics. Applying the same methodology to comparable data across twelve OECD countries, immigrants…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Labor Market, Public Policy, Individual Characteristics
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