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Claire Kovach; Muhammad Maisum Murtaza; Stephen Herzenberg – Keystone Research Center, 2024
As we approach this Labor Day, the Pennsylvania economy is growing steadily. Working families are sharing in prosperity in a more sustained way than at any point since 1980--although many families still struggle to make ends meet and, in our polarized nation, a big partisan divide exists in perceptions of whether the economy is better than four…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Development, Trend Analysis, Labor Market
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Ying Guo; Fuxin Jiang – Evaluation Review, 2024
The digital economy, which boasts general technology, intense penetration, platform ecology, and low marginal cost, is a product of advanced digital technology. This new engine has become a driving force for high-quality economic development. From the three aspects of development momentum, efficiency, and structure, this paper profoundly explores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Economic Climate, Economic Development
Titilope Akinsanmi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between vocational/ technical education (VTE) and economic growth in Nigerian. This purpose is motivated by the consideration that human capital development through enrolment in vocational and technical education is expected to stimulate economic growth. Quantitative correlational research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Economic Development, Human Capital
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Modig, Niclas – Journal of Social Science Education, 2022
Purpose: This article examines the prevalence of six economic terms in 17 Swedish upper-secondary school textbooks and how the language shifts between everyday and scientific language. Variations regarding content in the textbooks used in vocational programmes and preparatory programmes for higher education are also investigated. Design: Powerful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Secondary Education, Incidence
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Kartiko, Yuwono; Suwarto; Anantanyu, Sapja; Kusnandar – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2022
This study investigated the impact of implementing Ngawi Hijau, a regional spatial planning policy adopted by the Ngawi Regency government, on green entrepreneurship behavior of micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) actors engaged in the wood processing industry subsector in Ngawi Regency, Indonesia. Using 150 MSME actors as the research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Entrepreneurship, Conservation (Environment)
Kashen, Julie; Cai, Julie; Brown, Hayley; Fremstad, Shawn – Century Foundation, 2022
Comprehensive child care and early learning policy benefits everybody. From the benefits to the American economy and businesses, to the ways it improves healthy child development and educational outcomes, to the prospects for greater gender, racial, and economic equity, everyone in the United States has something to gain from a significant…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Federal Legislation
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Amily Dongshuo Wang Guenier; Minjie Xing; Zhen Zhang – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2025
The Chinese economy demonstrated remarkable resilience in 2022, providing certainty and vitality to a world facing economic challenges and geopolitical tensions. China's total foreign trade reached 39.1 trillion yuan in 2021, driving momentum for business Chinese language education. With China's economic growth and increasing international…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Political Attitudes, Chinese, Second Language Learning
National Skills Coalition, 2020
America faces the most devastating economic crisis since the Great Depression, and National Skills Coalition (NSC) stands with the working people and local businesses who have been most impacted by the pandemic's economic fallout. Equitable opportunities for working people and local businesses to participate in and benefit from a rebound and…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Climate, Job Skills, Job Training
Herzenberg, Stephen; Kovach, Claire; Murtaza, Maisum – Keystone Research Center, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented economic and policy challenges to the United States and other countries. Navigating out of the pandemic slowdown is another novel experience, which makes it more difficult to answer the question addressed each year in the "State of Working Pennsylvania": How is the Pennsylvania economy…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Wages, Unemployment, Employment Patterns
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Gavin A. Chapman – European Educational Researcher, 2019
Successful SMEs in KwaZulu-Natal do not all follow formal or 'classical' strategic planning methodologies taught by most business schools. While many SMEs collapse within the first year of operation, others become successful in their endeavours to firstly make a living for themselves and secondly to employ others in order to improve and uplift the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Strategic Planning, Business Schools, Economic Development
Werner, Marnie – Center for Rural Policy and Development, 2021
After a year of COVID, spiking unemployment, closed schools, and restricted businesses, rural Minnesotans may be looking at a unique opportunity in economic development. Since the Great Recession, rural employers have been dealing with an ever-growing job vacancy rate, which was discussed in the report, "The Pandemic Paints a Different…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Child Care, Trend Analysis, Unemployment
Van Horn, Carl; McCarthy, Mary Alice – New America, 2021
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently projected record-breaking growth in 2021, but it is premature to celebrate this rosy macroeconomic picture. In the same document, the CBO also made an alarming prediction: The U.S. labor market will not fully recover until 2024. Recent U.S. jobs reports reveal the depth of the pandemic-created…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Labor Market, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Mertanen, Katariina; Pashby, Karen; Brunila, Kristiina – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
This article focuses on neoliberal governing by the European Union of cross-sectoral youth policies directed at young people 'at risk'. The aim is to show how the alliance of discourses of employability and precariousness in these policies has emerged and how these discourses operate in policy. In the article, we analyse European Council and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Governance, Public Policy
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Mukwambo, Patience – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
While some studies in Zimbabwe have examined the relevance of education in rural settings, very few have done so using a human development-oriented framework such as the capabilities approach, as this paper does. In linking education and human development, the capabilities approach facilitates an examination of intersecting individual contexts and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Rural Areas, Developing Nations
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Ianioglo, Alina; Polajeva, Tatjana – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2017
In present conditions of instability of the environment, entrepreneurs assume the most of the business risks. In this regard, problems of ensuring the economic security become particularly important. The comprehensive system of ensuring the economic security of enterprise was worked out and the results are presented in the article. This system is…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Business, Economic Climate, Economic Factors
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