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Dabbled vs Sustained Self-Employment: Exploring Educational Returns within Dynamic Employment Groups
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Hiba Hussein; Moustafa Haj Youssef; Steve Nolan – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: This study examines the returns from education for three distinct groups: always employees, dabblers in self-employment and sustained self-employed individuals. We aim to understand how educational attainment translates into earnings across these employment types in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: Using data from the British…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Self Employment, Educational Attainment, Income
Academic Achievement and Economic Attainment: Reexamining Associations between Test Scores and Long-Run Earnings
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Watts, Tyler W. – AERA Open, 2020
The current article reexamines the correlation between achievement test scores and earnings by providing new evidence on the association between academic skills and measures of adult earnings assessed when participants were in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. Results suggest that math and reading scores are strong predictors of economic attainment…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Income, Scores, Adults
Attention and Behavior Problems in Childhood Predict Adult Financial Status, Health, and Criminal Activity: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Moffitt et al. (2011) Using Cohorts from the United States and the United Kingdom
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Koepp, Andrew E.; Watts, Tyler W.; Gershoff, Elizabeth T.; Ahmed, Sammy F.; Davis-Kean, Pamela; Duncan, Greg J.; Kuhfeld, Megan; Vandell, Deborah L. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study is a conceptual replication of a widely cited study by Moffitt et al. (2011) which found that attention and behavior problems in childhood (a composite of impulsive hyperactive, inattentive, and impulsive-aggressive behaviors labeled "self-control") predicted adult financial status, health, and criminal activity. Using data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Problems, Attention Deficit Disorders, Child Behavior
Taking Part: Registered Nurses and the Labour Market in 1997.
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Seccombe, I.; Smith, G. – 1997
The labor market participation, pay, job satisfaction, employment patterns, and turnover of registered nurses in the United Kingdom were examined through an analysis of data from the 1997 Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Survey. Of the random sample of 5,984 nurses from the RCN membership records surveyed, 4,288 (72%) returned usable questionnaires.…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries