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Matt Tincani; Hyangeun Ji; Maddie Upthegrove; Elizabeth Garrison; Michael West; Donald Hantula; Slobodan Vucetic; Eduard Dragut – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are disproportionately unemployed in comparison to adults without disabilities. In this umbrella review, we summarized the findings of 31 systematic reviews and meta-analyses of ASD vocational intervention research, encompassing 287 primary intervention studies. Most primary studies focused on strategies…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Intervention, Job Skills
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Niyadurupola, Verena; Esposito, Lucio – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Activation policies are widely adopted to encourage labour market participation of unemployed youth, and yet they are poorly understood and monitored with regard to the causal mechanisms unfolding through their implementation. Activation schemes are often based on the carrot-and-stick logic informed by microeconomic job search theory, but…
Descriptors: Youth, Unemployment, Behavior Change, Attitude Change
Xu Qin; Fan Yang – Grantee Submission, 2022
Causal inference regarding a hypothesized mediation mechanism relies on the assumptions that there are no omitted pretreatment confounders (i.e., confounders preceding the treatment) of the treatment-mediator, treatment-outcome, and mediator-outcome relationships, and there are no posttreatment confounders (i.e., confounders affected by the…
Descriptors: Simulation, Correlation, Inferences, Attribution Theory
Mullan, Joel; Broadbent, Emma – UNICEF, 2021
The rising number of forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) and the growing duration of displacement have made building economic resilience a priority, particularly for young people. By 2019, the global population of FDPs had doubled to 80 million. The majority of FDPs (86 per cent) live in low- or middle-income countries where host communities are…
Descriptors: Youth, Refugees, Education Work Relationship, Program Effectiveness
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Thayer, Yvonne; Carliner, Saul; Driscoll, Margaret – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
In 2017, the authors began research for a book that would suggest training needs for the U.S. and Canadian workforce in the coming decades. Early in the research process they realized there was much more to understand in an evolving workplace than the call for reskilling workers. Workers would face many decisions influencing their careers while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods, Job Skills, Automation
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Hillman, Donald R.; Knill, Courtney – International Journal of Training Research, 2018
Researchers examined 49 unemployed subjects enrolled in a one-week employability skills training program in the mid-east region of the U.S. for a period of about one year. Classroom size was about four to five clients taught by two professional instructors. Subjects were administered a Job Search Self-Confidence Survey utilising a…
Descriptors: Employment, Self Esteem, Job Search Methods, Unemployment
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Meyers, Rebecca – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
The institutionalised categorisation of adults who are over 55 years of age, unemployed and low-skilled as "older" and "disadvantaged" may adversely affect their employment prospects and their self-esteem. This paper reports on the findings of a study that explored the experiences of a small group of such adults; in particular,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, Older Workers, Classification
Hamilton, Gayle; Michalopoulos, Charles – MDRC, 2016
There is a longstanding debate about whether helping welfare recipients quickly find work or helping them to first obtain some basic education and training better improves their economic well-being. This brief contributes to the debate by presenting long-term findings from three sites in the seven-site National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education
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Greer, Tomika W. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2013
Women returners are women who leave the paid workforce for a period of time following the birth of their child(ren) and subsequently seek to return to paid employment. As women returners attempt to re-enter the workforce, many of them are in need of updating their skills or re-training in a new set of skills. In this study, the training and…
Descriptors: Reentry Workers, Females, Birth, Labor Force
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Russell, Jessica C. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2011
The author examined the role of narratives used by unemployed, underemployed, and displaced workers seeking job training assistance through a government-funded One-Stop Career Center. Interviews with employees of a One-Stop Career Center provided insight on client rate of disclosure of personal narratives and how client narratives are used to…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Unemployment, Underemployment, Dislocated Workers
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Helm, Matt; Campa, Henry, III; Moretto, Kristin – Journal of Faculty Development, 2012
This study sought to uncover the career readiness and professional development needs of Ph.D. students at a large, Midwestern research university. Findings indicate that career goals of graduate students change over time, skill preparation for academic and non-academic careers continues to be inadequate for many students and professional…
Descriptors: Socialization, Professional Development, Career Development, Career Guidance
Evans, Charles – 1976
This pamphlet describes library paraprofessionals, answering the questions: (1) What are library paraprofessionals? (2) What do paraprofessionals do? (3) How can you become a library paraprofessional? (4) What is the job market for library paraprofessionals? and (5) How do you find a job as a library paraprofessional? Work in all types of…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Job Training, Labor Market, Libraries
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Vuori, Jukka; Vesalainen, Janne – Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 1999
Finnish job seekers (n=559) were followed up after 1 year (n=401) after 84.3% participated in guidance courses, subsidized employment, vocational training, or some combination. Guidance courses enhanced reemployment. None of the interventions increased job-seeking activity. Training temporarily decreased psychological distress. Deteriorating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guidance Programs, Job Search Methods, Job Training
Gregory, Vikki L. – 1988
To assess the scope of local employment and training (ET) activities as part of citywide efforts to reduce poverty, a project measured the current state of employment and training services in the District of Columbia. Interviews with local officials provided budget totals and information about the range of ET activities available to low-income…
Descriptors: Career Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Qualifications, Employment Services
President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, Washington, DC. – 1972
The report covers the activities, results, and lessons learned in a project to test a new approach in developing greater opportunities in employment of the physically handicapped, mentally retarded, and mentally restored by harnessing the resources of leading volunteer women's organizations at the local level on a practical, planned basis. Project…
Descriptors: Architectural Barriers, Employment Opportunities, Homebound, Job Placement
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