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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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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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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
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Devine, Theresa J. – Monthly Labor Review, 1994
One in 15 employed women was self-employed in her main job in 1990. The decision to become self-employed appears intricately linked with several other decisions for a woman--as an individual, as a household member, and over the course of her life. (Author)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Self Employment
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Ogan, Christine L.; And Others – Journalism Quarterly, 1979
The composite picture of the typical top-level newspaper manager that emerged from a survey of the top managers at 433 newspapers was that of a White, Protestant, married man in his late forties with at least one child and a college degree. Only about 2.4 percent of the top-level managers surveyed were women. (GT)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Employment Patterns, Females
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O'Reilly, Charles A., III; And Others – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1989
Using 20 work units with 79 respondents, this study explores the relationship among group demography, group social integration, and individual turnover. Results confirm the potential importance of group processes in affecting individual decisions to stay or leave an organization. Includes 56 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Demography, Employment Patterns, Group Dynamics, Individual Characteristics
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Gowan, Mary A.; Lepak, David – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2007
The authors examined the relationship between an individual's human capital profile--knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics--and compensation before and after a job loss. The results of this study show that the types of human capital that predicted pre-job-loss salary differ from the types that predict reemployment salary. The…
Descriptors: Guidance, Human Capital, Longitudinal Studies, Labor Turnover
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Kanchier, Carole J.; Unruh, Wally R. – Career Development Quarterly, 1987
Examined managers (N=166) who voluntarily left the employ of an organization to determine reason for job change. Most job changers did not alter their general occupational orientations, but moved to occupational environments more congruent with their developing personality traits and goals. Suggests within an occupation there are diverse people…
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Change, Career Development, Career Ladders
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Bailey, Diana M. – Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 1988
The study attempted to determine variables that predict whether an occupational therapist will become an administrator or a clinician. Roles of the 385 respondents were predicted with 67 percent accuracy. Age, education, male mentoring, and the values of capability, a sense of accomplishment, freedom, and ambition predicted the administrative…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adults, Employment Patterns, Individual Characteristics
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