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Cox, Rebecca D. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This article explores the perspectives of immigrant student-parents who pursued post-secondary education at one community college in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Drawing from interviews with 10 women who had immigrated to Canada as adults, this analysis focuses on the experiences and pathways of the immigrant student-mothers…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mother Attitudes, Educational Experience, Social Differences
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Spears, Nickolas; Wheeler, Naomi J.; Regal, Rachel A.; Daire, Andrew P. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2021
This exploratory study examined race/ethnicity, income, and employment status (including underemployment specifically) as predictors of relational distress for members of a couple in a predominantly low-income, historically marginalized racial-ethnic (HMRE) background sample (N = 671 couples). Results of a dyadic multiple regression using…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Unemployment, Underemployment, Satisfaction
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Gerlach, Hope; Totty, Evan; Subramanian, Anu; Zebrowski, Patricia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to quantify relationships between stuttering and labor market outcomes, determine if outcomes differ by gender, and explain the earnings difference between people who stutter and people who do not stutter. Method: Survey and interview data were obtained from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Labor Market, Gender Differences, Comorbidity
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Kucel, Aleksander; Molina, Ivette Fuentes; Raya, Josep Maria – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016
In this paper, we investigate the determinants of over-education in Japan and evaluate its opportunity costs for university graduates. To this end, we use the REFLEX data. Results reveal that over-education level in Japan is high and it brings an important wage penalty for Japanese workers. Large firm and high occupations point toward a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cost Effectiveness, Salary Wage Differentials, Underemployment
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Ayimoro, Oluwatoyin Dorcas – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
Adult and Non-formal education provides the opportunities of responding to individual and societal needs through relevant training and education especially, as being challenged by constant technological change and novel knowledge. Adult Education is thus, problem solving. A major problem solving component of Adult Education is the potentials…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Nonformal Education, Gender Differences, Relevance (Education)
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Nally, John; Lockwood, Susan; Knutson, Katie; Ho, Taiping – Journal of Correctional Education, 2013
The primary focus of this study was to explore the characteristics of marginally employed (earnings less than $5,000 per year) ex-offenders. Findings from this study include the following: (1) The number of employed offenders varied from 47.7 percent of recently released offenders in 2006 to 49.8 percent of recently released offenders in 2009; (2)…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Underemployment, Criminals, Racial Differences