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Curran, Chris – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background/Context: TFA represents an influential yet controversial preparation route for new teachers. In recent years, TFA has received criticism from traditionally trained teachers and schools of education on the basis that they are crowding out or taking positions away from non-TFA teachers. Despite this criticism, research on TFA has tended…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Placement, Geographic Regions, School Districts
Sommers, Dixie – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 2012
In an uncertain economy, reliable information about tomorrow's labor market can be a valuable tool in career planning. Understanding the future workforce helps an individual prepare for his/her place in it. When choosing among careers--or assisting others who are making such choices--it helps to know a few basics: the types and number of jobs…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Employment Patterns, Labor Market, Occupational Information
Rothwell, Jonathan – Brookings Institution, 2012
This paper aims to provide metro, state, and national policy makers with a better sense of the specific problems facing metropolitan labor markets. First, the analysis examines trends in the demand for educated labor and how a gap between education supply and demand is related to unemployment. Next, it attempts to distinguish between cyclical and…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Supply and Demand, Public Policy, Job Development
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Zhu, Rong – Education Economics, 2014
This paper assesses the impact of the mismatch between a college major and job on college graduates' early career earnings using a sample from China. On average, a major-job mismatched college graduate is found to suffer from an income loss that is much lower than the penalty documented in previous studies. The income losses are also found to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), College Graduates, Labor Market
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McFall, Brooke Helppie; Murray-Close, Marta; Willis, Robert J.; Chen, Uniko – Journal of Economic Education, 2015
The authors describe job market experiences of new PhD economists, 2007-10. Using information from PhD programs' job candidate Web sites and original surveys, they present information about job candidates' characteristics, preferences, and expectations; how job candidates fared at each stage of the market; and predictors of outcomes at…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Economics Education, Economics, Doctoral Degrees
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Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia; Devos, Geert – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
In an era of recurring teacher shortages, Flanders struggles with a considerable proportion of teacher education graduates who do not enter the teaching profession. This study identifies the predictors of teacher education graduates' choice on job entry (teaching profession or not). A prospective research design with two data collection phases is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Career Choice, Predictor Variables
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Swider, Brian W.; Boswell, Wendy R.; Zimmerman, Ryan D. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
This study examined factors that may help explain under what conditions employee job search effort may most strongly (or weakly) predict subsequent turnover. As predicted, the job search-turnover relationship was stronger when employees had lower levels of job embeddedness and job satisfaction and higher levels of available alternatives. These…
Descriptors: Employees, Job Satisfaction, Labor Turnover, Predictor Variables
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Fletcher, Edward C., Jr. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2012
Sparked by the current economic situation in the U.S., policymakers have begun to shift their concern from solely concentrating on the preparation of students for college to preparing them for the workforce as well. Thus, it is time for CTE to understand its impact on students' long-term trajectories. The purpose of this study was to predict…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Vocational Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Education Work Relationship
Rothwell, Jonathan; Berube, Alan – Brookings Institution, 2011
This report examines education gaps and industry demand in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. Metropolitan areas are a natural unit of analysis given that they offer the best approximation of a regional labor market. Moreover, the wide variation in metropolitan area economic performance, as documented by the Brookings MetroMonitor…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Labor Market, Metropolitan Areas, Public Policy
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Berggren, Caroline – European Education, 2010
In this study, different institutions of higher education and their effects on employment opportunities for professionals in Sweden are compared and analyzed. The availability of extensive, longitudinal register data made it possible to determine a match between degree and occupation for higher education graduates aged twenty-six to twenty-eight…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Family Characteristics, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
Fernandez, Luis – 1978
Based on the assumption that during the next quarter century the academic labor market will be chronically depressed, a project was undertaken to create models for projecting college faculty demographics. In this report the statistical models and the results of their application are explained in detail, including extensive statistical tables.…
Descriptors: Age, Career Change, College Faculty, Demand Occupations
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Bedeian, Arthur G.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1991
Survey of nurses sampled expected utility of present job for attaining career goals interacted with career commitment in predicting intent to leave; utility and intent to leave were negatively related for those with high commitment/positively related for those with low commitment; effects of utility and commitment on actual turnover were almost…
Descriptors: Career Development, Employment Opportunities, Hospitals, Intention
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Haupert, Michael J. – Journal of Economic Education, 1996
Describes a class experiment where students search a hypothetical job market for jobs paying wages in a known range but with an unknown wage distribution. The experiment is divided into three "trials", each one introducing different variables (unemployment insurance, search costs, and recession). Includes experiment instructions and a…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Competitive Selection, Costs, Economics Education
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Lewis, Dan A.; Lee, Bong Joo; Altenbernd, Lisa M. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
The authors identify ways to facilitate work among current and recent welfare recipients with mental illness. Their analysis assesses the relationship between a particular mental illness, depression, and labor force involvement in a statewide sample of welfare recipients, identifies the factors that promote work for those with depression, and…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Welfare Recipients, Labor Force, Depression (Psychology)
Levine, David I.; Belman, Dale; Charness, Gary; Groshen, Erica L.; O'Shaughnessy, K. C. – 2002
Evidence from North American pay practices was used to examine the question of whether the "old employment contact," according to which employees promised to exchange hard work for job security, has truly been replaced by a "new employment contract" based more on market forces. The study analyzed data from the following…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contracts, Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship
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