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Amos Jeng; Elise M. McCarren; Alejandro J. Suñé – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study explored the relationship between weekly hours worked and food security among full-time college students in the United States, as well as the extent to which this relationship depends on racial identity and regional location. Participants/Methods: We performed a secondary analysis of data from 1,450 full-time college students…
Descriptors: Hunger, Food, Part Time Employment, Student Employment
Borgschulte, Mark; Chen, Yuci – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2021
This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth disconnection--i.e., the share of young people who were neither in school nor at work. Youth disconnection offers important advantages, relative to unemployment or participation rates, as a measure of the labor market for the most marginal and disadvantaged youth. Before the pandemic,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Youth, Enrollment
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Le Mai Trang; Dinh Thi Ha; Dao The Son; Ninh Thi Hoang Lan; Tran Kim Anh – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
How to make own advantages when submitting applications and increase the probability of getting a job early? The target of this study is to analyse the determinants of unemployment duration and the probability of seeking a job after graduation. It is carried out by using survival analysis along with the Cox model and Kaplan-Meier estimator and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Probability, Employment Level
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Zhang, Ting – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2019
This study developed a typology of eight heterogeneous types of baby boomer entrepreneurs and extended the occupational choice model regarding driving factors for entrepreneurialism in this population. The study relied on monthly USA Current Population Survey data across 11 years (2006-2016), and using 2-sample t-tests and multilevel mixed-effects…
Descriptors: Baby Boomers, Entrepreneurship, Classification, National Surveys
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Richardson, Julia; Wardale, Dorothy; Lord, Linley – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
There have been widespread changes to working arrangements and employment relationships, including significant decreases in continuing/full-time employment contracts. This trend is particularly notable in academia, with more universities relying on the expertise of sessional, teaching-focused academics. This qualitative study extends understanding…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Temporary Employment, Part Time Employment, Teaching Conditions
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Chou, Yueh-Ching; Kröger, Teppo; Pu, Cheng-yun – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: Mothers with lifelong care responsibilities might involuntarily be non-employed or work part-time, both of which are defined as "underemployment." This study aimed to investigate who these underemployed mothers are and what are the factors associated with such employment hardship when having a child with intellectual…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Mothers, Intellectual Disability, Correlation
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Breshears, Sherry – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
This article draws from the concept of precarious employment to better understand the working conditions of teachers of adult English as an additional language (EAL) learners in Canada. I examine previously published research on the employment situations of this group of educators, drawing from data that have been gathered using interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Adult Education
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Peñalver, Elena Alcalde; Santamaría Urbieta, Alexandra – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2020
Recent research studies in translation devote increasing attention to the pivotal role that ergonomics plays in translators' workplaces. However, there are no previous research studies that focus on how effective translators' lifestyles are and provide results on how necessary it is to improve them. The aim of this paper is to show results from a…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Processing, Second Languages, Human Factors Engineering
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Becker, Michael; Baumert, Jürgen; Tetzner, Julia; Maaz, Kai; Köller, Olaf – Developmental Psychology, 2019
What drives socioeconomic success within a society? This study analyzes how late childhood intelligence, parental socioeconomic background, and gender relate to multiple dimensions of adult socioeconomic success (i.e., education, occupational status, and income). A particular focus is placed on education, which is considered as both an indicator…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Family Characteristics, Gender Differences, Income
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Gbadamosi, Gbolahan; Evans, Carl; Obalola, Musa Adebayo – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
Students working part-time while studying for a full-time university degree are commonplace in many Western countries. This paper, however, examines the historically uncommon part-time working activities and career aspirations among Nigerian university students. In particular, how working is perceived to contribute to developing employability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Part Time Employment, Student Employment, College Students
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Lawlor, Leila G.; Willey, Susan L. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2017
In an undergraduate legal and ethical environment of business classes, the authors teach business students how to apply legal rules and ethical principles to problems that arise in business. Teaching the distinction between independent contractors and employees offers a rich, timely opportunity to improve students' critical thinking and…
Descriptors: Employees, Employment Level, Part Time Employment, Temporary Employment