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Gender, Education, and Labour Market Participation across the Life Course: A Canada/Germany Comparison
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Andres, Lesley; Lauterbach, Wolfgang; Jongbloed, Janine; Hümme, Hartwig – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
In this paper, we employ a comparative life course approach for Canada and Germany to unravel the relationships among general and vocational educational attainment and different life course activities, with a focus on labour market and income inequality by gender. Life course theory and related concepts of 'time,' 'normative patterns,' 'order and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
Clearing House for Community Colleges: Workforce Issues.
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Foote, Elizabeth – Catalyst, 1996
Provides an annotated bibliography of three documents related to workforce issues. Includes documents discussing the earning growth and employment stability of workforce entrants, the relationship of human development to the economy, and needs for continuing education and workforce training. (AJL)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Employment Patterns
Besoins de Base et Developpement: Quelle Signification Accorder au Besoin D'Education (Basic Needs and Development: How Much Significance Should Be Placed on the Basic Need for Education)?
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Bacquelaine, Myriam – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1994
Examines the concept of "basic needs" as applied to the context of personal development, focusing on the basic need for education. Discusses the validity of this need on the basis of results from studies of the relationship between education and employment and between education and productivity. (41 citations) (MAB)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits, Educational Objectives, Educational Responsibility
Career Frontiers: New Conceptions of Working Lives.
Peiperl, Maury A., Ed.; Arthur, Michael B., Ed.; Goffee, Rob, Ed.; Morris, Timothy, Ed. – 2000
This book draws upon and extends a number of existing debates in the area of careers and opens additional dialogues on the future of working life. The book contains 13 papers, organized in three parts and an Introduction. The Introduction contains one paper, "Topics for Conversation: Career Themes Old and New" (Maury A. Peiperl and…
Descriptors: Adults, Biotechnology, Career Change, Career Choice
Gaining a Foothold: Women's Transitions through Work and College.
American Association of Univ. Women Educational Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1999
This study explores how women make decisions about educational transitions, focusing on the complex interaction of personal, social, cultural, economic, and institutional factors that influence women as they move from high school to work, from high school to college, and from the workforce back to school. It also compares men's and women's…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Career Choice, Career Planning
Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No Work, No Family, No Future?
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed.; Shanahan, Michael J., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 17 papers devoted to the following four aspects of the transition to adulthood: effects of alterations in the structure of opportunity; effects of prior experiences in the family; effects of prior experience in the workplace; and career development and marriage formation during a period of rising inequality. The following papers…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Beliefs
Young Workers: Varieties of Experience.
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change