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Mack, Melissa; Dunham, Kate – Mathematica, 2021
Enacted in 2014, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was designed to increase collaboration among workforce systems at the federal, state, and local levels to integrate the array of programs and services available to job seekers and businesses through American Job Centers (AJCs). WIOA requires the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to…
Descriptors: Labor Legislation, Federal Legislation, Labor Force Development, Program Evaluation
Hamilton, Gayle; Michalopoulos, Charles – MDRC, 2016
There is a longstanding debate about whether helping welfare recipients quickly find work or helping them to first obtain some basic education and training better improves their economic well-being. This brief contributes to the debate by presenting long-term findings from three sites in the seven-site National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education
Day, Stephen Harlan – ProQuest LLC, 2015
A mini-economy is an ongoing classroom project in which elementary school students apply for jobs, receive simulated income, go shopping at the classroom store, and ultimately create their own businesses. This study uses design-based research methodology to find out what classroom practices emerge when the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Economics Education, Consumer Economics, Simulated Environment
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2013
This report focuses on the outcomes of vocational education and, in particular, on the transition from education to work in the current employment situation for young adults in the European Union. Using anonymised microdata from the EU labour force survey 2009 ad hoc module, this is one of the first studies to undertake a large cross-country…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Market, Outcomes of Education
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) program studies the progress of several groups of young Australians as they move from school into post-secondary education and work. This technical paper contains the frequency tables for the LSAY 2003 cohort Wave 7 (2009) data set. [For the related questionnaire, see ED512164.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Youth, Employment
Sverko, Branimir; Galic, Zvonimir; Sersic, Darja Maslic; Galesic, Mirta – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
A three-wave longitudinal study of unemployed persons in Croatia was used to examine the antecedents of job-seeking behavior and reemployment. A series of demographic, motivational and job-constraint variables were posited to influence job-seeking behavior, which, in turn, was hypothesized to affect (re)employment. The participants were surveyed…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Employment Level, Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods
Celikoz, Nadir – Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to investigate some personal and familial factors that affect overall academic motivation levels of candidate preschool teachers. The study group of this research consists of 285 students attending the child development and preschool education department at Selcuk University Faculty of Vocational Education in the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Preschool Education, Incentives, Job Search Methods
Alvarado, Andrew J.; And Others – 1991
Two surveys developed profiles of seasonal agricultural workers and their working conditions in central California. In 1989, a random sample of 347 seasonal workers was interviewed. The sample was 30 percent female and 87 percent Mexican-born. Average age was 35 years and average educational attainment was 5.9 years. Most had parents, spouses, or…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, American Indians, Demography, Education Work Relationship

Barron, John M.; Gilley, Otis W. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1979
Differences in the value of unemployment insurance benefits alter the extent of job search activities by current recipients, according to this study, but differences in expected value of future unemployment benefits do not appear to affect the search process of those not currently eligible for payments. (MF)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Research, Employment Services, Income

Zippay, Allison – Evaluation Review, 1991
The reemployment, retraining, and relocation experiences of a random sample (n=112) of displaced steelworkers (97 percent males, 85 percent whites, and 14 percent Blacks) from a small metropolitan community in western Pennsylvania were studied using a cross-sectional survey research design. Respondents actively pursued retraining and employment in…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Sectional Studies, Dislocated Workers, Income
Lindgren, Amy – 1995
This book is the sixth in a series of six pocket-sized books written for career changers and laid-off workers. Each book is written at a 7th- to 10th-grade reading level and contains examples, hands-on self-discovery exercises, and step-by-step advice for a successful job search. This book provides information on financial survival between…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Budgeting, Career Change, Career Education

Johnson, William R. – 1979
This paper examines the theoretical basis for "excessive" job mobility among certain groups of young workers that may lead to spells of unemployment and low lifetime earnings. An economic model of job findings by young workers is used to describe "normal" behavior and "pathological" cases of excessive job mobility and unemployment. Emphasis is on…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Employment Problems, Feedback
Freedman, Stephen; Knab, Jean Tansey; Gennetian, Lisa A.; Navarro, David – 2000
A large-scale evaluation was conducted of Jobs-First GAIN, a strongly employment-focused mandatory welfare-to-work program. Its main features were an unusually intensive program orientation; high quality job clubs; job development activities; strong encouragement to take entry-level jobs and combine work and welfare in the short-term; and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs
Padilla, Arthur H. – 1976
A study was conducted of post-graduation activities of 1974 graduates of the sixteen constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina (UNC). Data was gathered on what the graduates were doing one-and-a-half years after graduation. The study provided information about their employment situation, their job satisfaction and the general…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Experience, Employment Statistics
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
Air traffic controllers no longer able to perform their highly specialized duties must be removed in the interest of aviation safety. Because few employment opportunities exist outside the government for controllers' skills, Congress established a second-career training program in 1972 for controllers so removed by the Federal Aviation…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Programs
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