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Filges, Trine; Dietrichson, Jens; Viinholt, Bjørn C. A.; Dalgaard, Nina T. – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2021
Not only graduation rates are important, the quality of the education received also matters for the educational prospects of young people and successful entry into the labour market. The shares of neither employed nor in education or training (NEET) are negatively related to the skill levels among young people (OECD, 2017a). The main objective of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews
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Lyons, Heather Z. – Career Development Quarterly, 2011
The already limited vocational prospects of low-income African Americans in New Orleans were further devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill added to the devastation, highlighting the continued vulnerability of New Orleanians seeking employment. As a result, opportunities persist for vocational practitioners…
Descriptors: African Americans, Low Income Groups, Barriers, Employment Opportunities
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Tziner, Aharon; Vered, Efrat; Ophir, Limor – Journal of Career Assessment, 2004
This study examined the connection between personality traits (extraversion, conscientiousness, openness) and two strategies for job search: networking (family, friends, etc.) and general search (want ads, employment agencies), making use of Costa and McCrae's five-factor model of personality dimensions. The relations between the two strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, College Graduates, Unemployment
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Pennington, Kevin L.; McGinty, Dixie; Williams, Mitchell R. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2002
Discusses a study that investigated the ability of national economic trends to predict enrollment in community colleges. Reports that unemployment rate, gross domestic product, dollars disposable income, and personal consumption expenditures are good indicators of trends in community college enrollment, but that consumer price index and average…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Climate, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
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Campbell, S. Duke; Greenberg, Barry – 1979
The development of a predictive equation capable of explaining a significant percentage of enrollment variability at Florida International University is described. A model utilizing trend analysis and a multiple regression approach to enrollment forecasting was adapted to investigate enrollment dynamics at the university. Four independent…
Descriptors: College Planning, Conference Reports, Economic Factors, Enrollment Projections