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Morrar, Rabeh; Syed Zwick, Hélène – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Although it might be considered one of the main vigorous distortions in the Palestinian labour market, qualification mismatch has not been studied by researchers in Palestine. We draw upon this gap using Palestinian labour force survey between 2009 and 2016. This paper therefore presents a multinomial logit model to identify the factors affecting…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Salary Wage Differentials, Labor Market, Models
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Gambin, Lynn; Hogarth, Terence – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
This paper examines factors that are associated with the probability of completion of apprenticeship programmes by individual learners in England. Data are from the 2008/2009 academic year Individualised Learner Record--the administrative database containing information on all learners in the Further Education system in England. The analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Performance Factors, Student Records
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Hordern, Jim – Journal of Education and Work, 2014
Workforce development partnerships between higher education institutions and employers involve distinctive social and technical dynamics that differ from dominant higher education practices in the UK. The New Labour government encouraged such partnerships in England, including through the use of funding that aimed to stimulate reform to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship, Partnerships in Education
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Vanoverberghe, Jurgen; Verhaest, Dieter; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Omey, Eddy – Journal of Education and Work, 2008
The aim of this paper is to distinguish some of the factors that have an influence on the length of the joblessness period between the school-leaving date and the start of the first job. Several hypotheses are tested on the basis of a duration model using data on Flemish school leavers. The speed of the transition process is found to be a function…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Ethnicity, Labor Market, Dropouts
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Tomlinson, Michael – Journal of Education and Work, 2007
This article examines the way students, making the transition from higher education into the labour market, construct, understand and begin to manage their employability. It draws upon a qualitative study of 53 final-year undergraduates in a pre-1992 university in the UK. It firstly explores students' perceptions of the current labour market for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Student Attitudes
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Lloyd, Caroline; Payne, Jonathan – Journal of Education and Work, 2005
Although the current Labour government is committed to developing the UK as a high skills society, there is much confusion as what such a society might look like and from where it might draw its inspiration. Some academic commentators have also expressed the need for a clearer vision of the kind of society to which the UK might choose to head for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Public Policy, Models