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Christoph Schimmele; Feng Hou – Statistics Canada, 2024
Selecting immigrants with high levels of education increases their chances of economic success. Immigrants with a bachelor's degree or higher are more adaptable to changes in the labour market and have steeper growth in employment earnings than those with a trades or high school education. However, many immigrants with a bachelor's degree or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Attainment
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Fort, Isabelle; Lheureux, Florent; Auzoult, Laurent – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2023
The purpose of the present study was to extend the results of previous research exploring the paths between variables of the theory of planned behaviour and job attainment. The theory of planned behaviour assumes that attitude, subjective norm and self-efficacy contribute to intention, which in turn determines behaviour and, finally, an outcome.…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Intention, Employment Patterns, Self Efficacy
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Yael Goldfarb; Franziska Assion; Sander Begeer – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Previous research on employment outcomes of autistic adults mainly assessed if they work and under what terms, with mostly anecdotal descriptions of where they work. This study aimed to identify the employment sector distribution of autistic employees compared to the general workforce in the Netherlands and to explore possible background…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Broda, Michael D.; Bogenschutz, Matthew; Dinora, Parthenia; Prohn, Seb M.; Lineberry, Sarah; Ross, Erica – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
In this article, we demonstrate the potential of machine learning approaches as inductive analytic tools for expanding our current evidence base for policy making and practice that affects people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Using data from the National Core Indicators In-Person Survey (NCI-IPS), a nationally validated…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Prediction, Employment Patterns, Day Programs
OECD Publishing, 2022
The labour market outcomes for native- and foreign-born adults during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic vary considerably across countries -- with inequalities in employment even falling in some cases compared to 2017. In contrast with the 2008 financial crisis, greater educational attainment does not seem to have had a clear protective…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Labor Market, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Simon M. Bury; Darren Hedley; Mirko Uljarevic; Xia Li; Mark A. Stokes; Sander Begeer – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic adults experience high rates of unemployment, yet research investigating what predicts employment success produces inconsistent results. By utilising longitudinal person-oriented analyses, this study aimed to identify employment trajectories of autistic adults to better understand what may predict stable autistic employment. Participants…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Profiles, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults
Kelli A. Bird; Benjamin L. Castleman; Brett Fischer; Benjamin T. Skinner – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Recent state policy efforts have focused on increasing attainment among adults with some college but no degree (SCND). Yet little is actually known about the SCND population. Using data from the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), we provide the first detailed profile on the academic, employment, and earnings trajectories of the SCND…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Attainment, College Credits, Adult Education
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Kelli A. Bird; Benjamin L. Castleman; Brett Fischer; Benjamin T. Skinner – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Recent state policy efforts have focused on increasing attainment among adults with some college but no degree (SCND). Yet little is actually known about the SCND population. Using data from the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), we provide the first detailed profile on the academic, employment, and earnings trajectories of the SCND…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Attainment, College Credits, Adult Education
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Janine Jongbloed; Johanna Turgetto; Lesley Andres; Wolfgang Lauterbach – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
This article compares the education, employment, and care work biographical sequences of Canadian and German women and men from late adolescence into mid-adulthood. Through the lenses of comparative gendered life course theory and welfare regime theory, sequence and cluster analyses are used to determine the adult life course sequences of women…
Descriptors: Education, Child Caregivers, Family Environment, Late Adolescents
Batalova, Jeanne; Fix, Michael – Migration Policy Institute, 2019
As the U.S. workforce ages, baby boomers retire, and birth rates decline, the United States is facing an estimated shortfall of 8 million workers between now and 2027. At the same time, the U.S. economy is becoming ever more knowledge-based. Having a marketable postsecondary credential, whether an academic degree or a professional certification or…
Descriptors: Credentials, Immigrants, Adults, Certification
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Lund, Emily M.; Cmar, Jennifer L. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2019
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review of survey-based research on predictors or correlates of employment outcomes for individuals with visual impairments (i.e., those who are blind or have low vision). Methods: We used a three-pronged systematic search process to identify quantitative, English, peer-reviewed…
Descriptors: Adults, Visual Impairments, Blindness, Employment Patterns
Anthony P. Carnevale; Lulu Kam; Martin Van Der Werf – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024
Rural America has long been perceived as "left behind" by policies that leave it struggling while benefiting bustling urban cities and suburbs. That narrative holds some truth: rural America has a declining population, along with lower educational attainment and lower workforce participation than urban America. But while rural America…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Labor Force, Labor Force Development, Adults
Webster, Riley – Administration for Children & Families, 2019
STEP Forward was a voluntary program in San Francisco that aimed to connect low-income job seekers to the labor market by using public funds to temporarily subsidize individuals' wages, known as subsidized employment, with the goal of ultimately increasing permanent unsubsidized employment among this population. STEP Forward offered job seekers…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Low Income Groups, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities
Shepard, John – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2019
Data show that people with disabilities are consistently less likely to be working than their non-disabled counterparts. In this Data Note, the employment rate for working-age people is compared across disability types, as well as those without disabilities. While employment rates across disability subpopulation groups vary, all disability groups…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Patterns, Daily Living Skills, Hearing Impairments
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Redmer, Alina; Dannath, Jesper – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Observing the transition from industrial work to more and more digitalised work in the last decades, in this paper we discuss changes in employment and the relevance of numeracy in adult basic education and in working environments. In a knowledge society, the demand for highly qualified professionals is growing. It is questionable what effects…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Numeracy, Adults, Relevance (Education)
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