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Milan Kovacevic; Teun J. Dekker; Rolf van der Velden – Research in Higher Education, 2024
This paper compares the employment outcomes of liberal arts graduates from Dutch university colleges with those of their peers who pursued conventional, subject-specific bachelor's degrees. Using data from the Dutch National Alumni Survey, the analysis includes 14,933 respondents who completed a master's programme at a research university, with…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Labor Needs, Employment Potential, College Graduates
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Gokce, Huseyin; Bozyigit, Elif – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
The aim of the study is to compare the satisfaction levels of the participants, participating in the sports festival according to some variables. The survey was conducted to 1,274 people randomly selected among approximately 55,000 participants who participated in the sports festival organized by a municipality in Denizli-Turkey. As a data…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Municipalities, Surveys, Gender Differences
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Goldan, Lea – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Previous research has shown that female doctoral graduates earn less than male doctoral graduates; however, there has been little research on the determinants of this gender pay gap. This paper investigates the determinants of the gender pay gap among doctoral graduates in Germany. By relying on human capital theory, traditional gender roles and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Salary Wage Differentials, Human Capital, Sex Role
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Kühner, Stefan; Jiang, Jin; Wen, Zhuoyi; Lau, Maggie – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Recent literature on education and work well recognises the 'crowding-out perspective' of how higher education expansion impacts the labour market experience of young people with different educational levels. However, the relationship between the labour market experience and young people's self-reported happiness remains less well understood. This…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Adolescents, Young Adults, Psychological Patterns
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Kalenda, Jan; Kocvarová, Ilona; Vaculíková, Jitka – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
This study deals with key determinants of participation in the nonformal education (NFE) of adults in the Czech Republic (CZE). Our results are based on a secondary analysis of two Adult Education Surveys carried out in the CZE in 2011 (n = 10,190) and 2016 (n = 12,272). Determinants of participation are modelled through logistic regression and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Jongbloed, Janine – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
This study examines the impact of post-secondary education on the well-being of Europeans, comparing single-item hedonic and multi-dimensional eudaimonic models of well-being, operationalized as 'satisfaction with life' (SWL) and 'flourishing'. The results indicate that the impact of education varies significantly when well-being is defined from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Well Being, Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis
Aljuhani, Ahmed – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of the study was to identify the challenges to successful total quality management (TQM) implementation in Saudi higher education institutions (HEIs) according to the perspectives of faculty members. A quantitative study was conducted to identify the demographic independent variables of faculty members (i.e., years of experience,…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, College Administration, Higher Education, Human Resources
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Smith, Emma; White, Patrick – Research Papers in Education, 2017
Concerns about a shortage of highly skilled workers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) sector have been expressed frequently since the late 1940s. Although these claims have been challenged as being insufficiently grounded in evidence, they have formed the basis of policies directing considerable resources to STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Graduates, Careers, Unemployment
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Çoban, Oktay; Yildirim, Mehmet – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2018
This study aims to determine high school students' level of aggression and compare their level of aggression based on some demographic features. The population of the study comprises of high school students attending public and private schools in Yozgat province of Turkey during 2017- 2018 school year. The sample of the study comprises of 300…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
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Kent, Grainne; Pitsia, Vasiliki – Irish Educational Studies, 2018
The present study investigated the home learning environment of three to five-year-old children (n = 429) living in an area designated as socio-economically disadvantaged, involved in the Area Based Childhood (ABC) programme, compared to a nationally representative sample of three-year-old children (n = 9793), from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI)…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Disadvantaged, Family Environment, Learning Activities
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Salata, Andre – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
In this article, I aim to determine whether, in view of the trend of educational expansion in recent decades in Brazil, the role played by schooling in the labor market of Brazilian major metropolitan regions has changed, becoming positional rather than absolute. To this end, I analyze the influence of schooling on people's income and occupational…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Labor Market, Metropolitan Areas, Income
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Carpentier, Geneviève; Mukamurera, Joséphine; Leroux, Mylène; Lakhal, Sawsen – McGill Journal of Education, 2019
The first years of teaching are challenging. Knowledge of the kind of support new teachers require is essential. Existing typologies date back from the 1980s and the early 2000s. The aim of this article is twofold: 1) to validate a typology of novice teachers' support needs using confirmatory factor analysis and 2) to compare these needs in…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Factor Analysis, Classification, Teacher Characteristics
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Tran, Thi Tuyet – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
Literature suggests that educational attainment is one of the significant factors affecting youth transition to work. The process of capital accumulation through education is suggested as the key marker of social inclusion and exclusion. This paper compares the educational attainment among youth in Vietnam with their status in employment. It uses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Comparative Analysis
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Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy – Education Economics, 2017
Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Norway I investigate long-term birth month effects. I demonstrate that the oldest children in class have a substantially higher GPA than their younger peers. The birth month differences are larger for low-SES children. Furthermore, I find that the youngest children in class are lagging significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Grade Point Average, Socioeconomic Influences
Wang, Anyi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation study focuses on upper secondary technical and vocational education (TVE) in China. It empirically examines the characteristics of TVE participants and the labor market impacts of participating in upper secondary TVE relative to attending general high schools. Using nationally representative datasets from China, this study has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Vocational Education, Technical Education
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