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Thi Hang Banh; Trang Hong Dao; Paul Glewwe; Giang Thai – Education Economics, 2024
Vietnam's economy and education system have had remarkable success in recent decades, yet there are concerns about the declining returns to higher education since 2008. We document this decline in returns to higher education and propose four hypotheses to explain it. Analysis of the VLSS/VHLSS and LFS data provides little evidence for three of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Labor Force, Employment Patterns
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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
Knight, Genevieve; White, Ian; Granfield, Pip – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
A comprehensive picture of the overall vocational education and training (VET) market combined with an updated profile of the VET workforce is essential to informing policy development and workforce planning to ensure the sector has the capacity to meet the skill development needs of industry in a rapidly changing economy. This report presents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Force, Labor Force Development
Feng, Yun – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation studies the effects of China's higher education expansion reform on workers' labor market outcomes. In Chapter 1, I investigate how China's higher education expansion reform affects young workers' labor market outcomes. Using data from the 2005 China Population Survey, I estimate the effects of the reform using a diff-in-diff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Higher Education, Educational Development
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Cholik, Mochamad; Samani, Muchlas; Buditjahjanto, I. G. P. Asto; Putri, Aldila Rahma – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Vocational High Schools are designed to prepare students to enter the workforce, so that the graduates' absorption, waiting periods and the first salaries become the indicator of effectiveness. However, the Central Statistics Agency's data shows that the open unemployment for Vocational High Schools graduates is very high and exceeds the Senior…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, High School Students, High School Graduates, Education Work Relationship
National Science Foundation, 2020
Contributions from and innovation in science and technology over many decades have resulted in dramatic improvements to American lives, including enhanced living standards and life expectancy, better access to information and connectivity across the globe, and increased access to and affordability of consumer goods. The analysis in this report is…
Descriptors: Sciences, Engineering, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education
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Athanasou, James – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2014
Around 2.2 million Australians aged 15-64 years have a reported disability. Of these, some 1.8 million have a specific limitation or a schooling or employment restriction. This is a sizable proportion that does not always feature in thinking about career choice. The purpose of this brief research report is to provide some background information on…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Career Development
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Livingstone, D. W. – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
'Employers know that they can hire worldwide now … so, there is limitless supply of people … who can do the job … . they're all qualified, most of them are actually over-qualified … . I'm a wage slave basically, I don't think we have very much social status … . we are replaceable workers … I mean, the employer holds all the cards really. We are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Underemployment, Employment Patterns
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Gimpelson, V. E. – Russian Education & Society, 2016
It is generally accepted that human capital is an important factor in economic growth, but its impact on growth depends on the demand for education and skills on the labor market. Demand for human capital is largely determined by the institutional environment that governs the basic conditions for economic activity. The author expresses ten doubts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Factors, Human Capital, Educational Demand
OECD Publishing, 2017
Gender inequalities persist in all areas of social and economic life and across countries. Young women in OECD countries generally obtain more years of schooling than young men, but women are less likely than men to engage in paid work. Gaps widen with age, as motherhood typically has marked negative effects on gender pay gaps and career…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Educational Trends, Violence, Females
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Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tiongco, Marites – Economics of Education Review, 2013
This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor markets observed in the Philippines. We set up a model that shows multiple Nash equilibria to explain schooling and labor market behaviors for females and males. Our evidence from unique sibling data of schooling and work history and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Patterns, Income, Human Capital
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Howson, J.; McNamara, O. – Educational Research, 2012
Background: The labour market for classroom teachers in England is a mixture of free-market capitalism and state workforce planning, interlaced with ideological and political interventions such as the introduction of new routes into teaching and the capping of class size. Purpose: The article examines the relationship between the teacher labour…
Descriptors: Teachers, Labor Market, Teacher Supply and Demand, Free Enterprise System
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Lee, Kristen Schultz; Tufis, Paula A.; Alwin, Duane F. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010
This research investigates change in gender beliefs in Japan during a period of economic hard times in the late 1990s. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme on the Japanese population from 1994 (n = 1,054) and 2002 (n = 872), we examined how cohort replacement and intracohort change contributed to changes in gender beliefs. We…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Sanctions, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Helyer, Ruth; Lee, Dionne – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues around a multiple generational workforce and more specifically, the challenges and benefits for education providers and employers. Design/methodology/approach: Reviewing research papers, analysing academic texts, interrogating market intelligence and contextualising case studies, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Baby Boomers, Employment Patterns, Aging (Individuals)
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van Dam, Karen; van der Vorst, Janine D. M.; van der Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M. – Journal of Career Development, 2009
This study investigated the early retirement intentions of 346 older Dutch employees by extending the theory of planned behavior with anticipated work conditions. The results showed that employees who felt a pressure from their spouse to retire early had a strong intention to leave the work force before the official retirement age, that is 65.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Retirement, Employee Attitudes, Context Effect
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