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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
Lewis, Peter; Collison, James; Whitehead, Lisa; Howie, Virginia; Feighan, Sarah; Wiese, Michele; O'Reilly, Kate; Jaques, Hayden; Wilson, Nathan J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: Nurses provide technical and relational skills that are integral to the care of people with intellectual disability (ID) in Australia. However, little is known about the demographic profile of this section of the nursing workforce. Method: Administration of a survey to nurses whose primary role it is to care for people with ID…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Nurses, Labor Force, Foreign Countries
Baslevent, Cem; Kirmanoglu, Hasan – Social Indicators Research, 2013
We examine whether employees' preferences for various job attributes are associated with their individual characteristics in ways that are in line with "hierarchy of needs" theories. Using data from the fifth round of the European Social Survey, we observe the influence of socio-demographic and dispositional characteristics as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Individual Characteristics, Values, Foreign Countries
Goodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the key themes in the area of the impact of demographic change on young workers and older workers in relation to education, skills and employment, as discussed in the papers included in this section. The authors have also drawn upon data from their project "From Young Workers to Older…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Older Workers, Work Life Expectancy, Employment Patterns
Van Houtte, Mieke; Stevens, Peter A. J. – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Starting from the present knowledge society with its social overvaluing of cognition and white-collar jobs at the expense of manual labour, this article examines whether school type--academic versus technical/vocational schools--relates to students' sense of futility. It assesses the schools' culture of futility and investigates the explanatory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Technical Education, School Culture
Nilsson, Staffan – Education & Training, 2010
Purpose: Employability includes the ability to find employment and remain employed. Employability includes both hard and soft skills, including formal and actual competence, interpersonal skills, and personal characteristics. This paper aims to focus on illuminating perceptions engineering graduates have regarding employability. More specifically,…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Curriculum Design, College Graduates, Academic Aspiration
Salas-Velasco, Manuel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
This paper investigates the determinants of the transition from higher education to work across Europe using various specifications of duration models and a one-time multi-country survey of university graduates from nine European countries. Results point to differences between the North and South of Europe in the difficulty of getting a first job.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Labor Market
Causa, Orsetta; Jean, Sebastien – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2007
This working paper assesses the ease of immigrants' integration in OECD labour markets by estimating how an immigration background influences the probability of being active or employed and the expected hourly earnings, for given individual characteristics. Applying the same methodology to comparable data across twelve OECD countries, immigrants…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Labor Market, Public Policy, Individual Characteristics

Taler, Yecheskel – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1986
Through interviews and examination of records, employment rates were studied in a sample of 762 disabled adults (ages 18-55) in Israel. The profile that emerged indicated that employed individuals (N=220) tended to be younger, male, more educated, Israeli, and less seriously medically disabled, among other distinguishing characteristics.…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Employment Patterns
Dench, S.; Norton, R. – 1996
Seven major British employing organizations were surveyed regarding their attitudes toward early retirement, attachment to/subsequent experiences in the labor market, financial situation, and the types of advice and support available to them. The overall response rate was 60% (1,012 returned questionnaires). Of the respondents, 53% took early…
Descriptors: Early Retirement, Economic Status, Employment Patterns, Financial Problems
Meager, Nigel; And Others – 1992
In a comparison of self-employment patterns in Germany and the United Kingdom, data from the Labour Force Survey (United Kingdom) and Mikrozensus (Germany) were analyzed to identify the personal characteristics of self-employed individuals in the two countries, the characteristics of their self-employed activity, and movement in and out of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Factors, Employment Opportunities

Evans, M. D. R. – International Migration Review, 1984
Presents a broad overview of Australia's diverse immigrant population, with focus placed on the work experiences of females. Analyzes census data to describe the following characteristics more specifically: education, English proficiency, labor force involvement, occupational niche, unemployment, entrepreneurship, and income. Reports that, with a…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns, English, Entrepreneurship
Roos, Patricia A. – 1982
Differences in the occupational attainment patterns of men and women were investigated by using data from 12 industrial societies. The sample consisted of employed persons 20 to 64 years of age working full- or part-time in the United States, Australia, Denmark, Finland, West Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Background, Employed Women, Employment Level
Seccombe, I.; Smith, G. – 1997
The labor market participation, pay, job satisfaction, employment patterns, and turnover of registered nurses in the United Kingdom were examined through an analysis of data from the 1997 Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Survey. Of the random sample of 5,984 nurses from the RCN membership records surveyed, 4,288 (72%) returned usable questionnaires.…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries
Hird, H. Richard – 1974
The report presents the results of a 1973-74 survey conducted by the Ontario Ministry of Labor to identify the characteristics of low-wage workers in Ontario. Its primary purpose is to discuss the survey methodology and present some of the main characteristics of low-wage earners and of the labor market. The data source was the Master Registration…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics