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Forbes Makudza; Tendai Makwara; Rosemary F. Masaire; Phillip Dangaiso; Lucky Sibanda – Cogent Education, 2024
Amid an influx of unemployed graduates who are offloaded by tertiary institutions annually, this study sought to promote job creation through entrepreneurial practices. The study criticises the notion that only tertiary education is enough for economic prosperity for both male and female tertiary students. A framework of the determinants of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Entrepreneurship, Gender Differences, Self Efficacy
Mullan, Joel, Comp.; Broadbent, Emma, Comp. – UNICEF, 2021
The compendium of solutions is a supporting document to the report "Unlocking the Power of Digital Technologies to Support 'Learning to Earning' for Displaced Youth." The compendium supplements the lessons learned and recommendations outlined in the main report by providing a deeper dive into the context, design, and implementation…
Descriptors: Youth, Refugees, Education Work Relationship, Multimedia Materials
Pace, R. Wayne – European Journal of Training and Development, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to show the foundational place that communication theory and its practice occupies in functioning work systems. Design/methodology/approach: This paper defines the word communication in terms of the creation and interpretation of displays, describes what it means to have a theoretical foundation for a…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Systems Approach, Employment, Organizational Communication
Leary, Warren – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
As the nation, bogged in recession, focuses on job creation and economic growth for relief, attention has turned to education as the key to building a workforce to fill current and future job needs. However, to the surprise of some, much of the discussion involves community colleges, rather than traditional four-year, degree-granting universities…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Colleges, Grants, Education Work Relationship
Kostenius, Catrine – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
The aim of this study was to make visible, and understand, possible opportunities for school improvement based on schoolchildren's lived experience and visionary ideas of school. Schoolchildren aged 10-12 from the northern part of Sweden participated in the study. The phenomenological analysis resulted in three themes, with no particular order of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Opportunities, Phenomenology
Kurtz, Alan; Jordan, Melanie – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2008
It has been known for decades that individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), including those with significant impairment or who have behaviors that others find challenging, can work when they are given appropriate supports (Smith, Belcher, & Juhrs, 1995). It is also clear that individuals with ASD can benefit from employment. Benefits…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Employment Practices, Autism, Economically Disadvantaged
Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010
We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase…
Descriptors: Zoning, Job Development, Geographic Location, Program Implementation
Arizona State Dept. of Education, Phoenix. Div. of Career and Vocational Education. – 1984
The conference excerpts highlight job development techniques for hard-to-place clients. Myths about employment are cited, including that the most qualified person gets the job and employers know what they are doing in hiring. The job developer's role in understanding and accessing the job market is considered, along with time management…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment, Job Development, Job Placement
Davis, Louis E. – Manpower, 1970
Job restructuring can play an important part in preparing the unskilled for today's society and in easing the United States into the postindustrial era. (BC)
Descriptors: Automation, Disadvantaged, Employment, Job Development

Waff, Craig B. – Physics Today, 1978
Reports on some recommendations made by a subpanel on High Energy Physics Manpower for the purpose of employing additional physicists through the transfer of some postdoctoral monies to produce long-term positions, and the creation of a five-year national fellowship program. (GA)
Descriptors: Careers, Employment, Faculty, Job Development

Waff, Craig B. – Physics Today, 1978
Describes recommendations developed for the creation of hundreds of jobs for young physicists to maintain a vigorous and internationally competitive research effort in physics through the establishment of either a National Research Scientific Program in Physics or a National Research Faculty Appointments in Physics. (GA)
Descriptors: Careers, Employment, Faculty, Job Development

Britton, Andrew – International Labour Review, 1997
Argues that full employment must be acceptable on both social and economic grounds. Examines profound changes in industrialized economies since the 1970s and the diversity of employment contracts. Suggests that difficult policy decisions surround full employment. (SK)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Employment, Industrialization, Job Development
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
Between July 1981 and November 1982, the United States experienced the worst economic recession of the post-World War II period. In response, Congress in March 1983 enacted the Emergency Jobs Appropriations Act, whose objectives were: (1) to provide productive employment for jobless Americans; (2) to hasten or initiate federal projects and…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Federal Government
Bishop, John – 1977
This paper presents a multi-pronged strategy for reducing poverty and unemployment by increasing the number of jobs for unskilled workers and raising their wages. The first component of this strategy is a marginal hours employment tax credit, similar to the recently enacted New Jobs Tax Credit. This would serve to generate an expansion in…
Descriptors: Employment, Family Income, Government Role, Job Development
Garrison, H. Don – 1984
Robots are machines designed to replace human labor. A fear of vast unemployment due to robots seems unfounded, however, since industrialization creates many more jobs and automation requires technologists to build, program, maintain, and operate sophisticated equipment. Robots possess an intelligence unit, a manipulator, and an end effector.…
Descriptors: Automation, Career Education, Employment, Employment Problems