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Di Xu; Kelli A. Bird; Michael Cooper; Benjamin L. Castleman – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Many public workforce training programs lead to industry-recognized, third-party awarded credentials, but little research has been conducted on the economic benefits of these credentials in the labor market. This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the labor market returns to industry-recognized credentials connected to community college…
Descriptors: Noncredit Courses, Credentials, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market
Christopher Edwards; Ricky Tunny; Heather Allen; Danielle Bowles; Angela Farley; Sandra O'Hara; Jane Wardle; Tristan Reddan – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
Sonography is a highly specialized diagnostic imaging profession facing significant workforce challenges due to increased service delivery demands and a shortage of clinical training opportunities. Developing sustainable solutions is crucial for workforce growth. Using examples from the Australian workforce and education context, this paper…
Descriptors: Guided Pathways, Job Training, Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs
Hardin-Ramanan, Sarita; Gopee, Shafiiq; Rowtho, Vikash; Charoux, Odylle – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2020
Characterised by strong human capital dependency, Small Island Development States (SIDS) such as Mauritius depend largely on work-ready graduates to boost their economy. Yet, Graduate Work Readiness (GWR) and graduate unemployment feature prominently on the Mauritian government agenda. This paper investigates the previously unexplored issue of GWR…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Career Readiness, Employment Potential
Saito, Eisuke; Pham, Thanh – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
The notion of employability has become a focal point of higher education in many countries' strategies to prepare students for employment. Responses to this notion can differ largely from country to country and from university to university, based on their historical, political, and economic contexts. However, very little has been researched in…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Higher Education, Employment Potential, Universities
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2018
A decade after the Great Recession, millions of job seekers in their late teens and twenties--especially young people of color and youth from low-income families--are still struggling to land and keep meaningful work, even as the economy improves. Traditional education and training models are failing to equip them with the skills and credentials…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Skill Development, Employment Potential, Credentials
Heyward, Georgia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2019
As the economy rapidly shifts toward automation, there is growing consensus that while new jobs will be created, change is the new normal. Youth need training in soft skills alongside preparation for lifetime learning. Systemic change, not minor improvements, will be necessary. States, districts, and schools are adjusting to the aspirations of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Vocational Education, School Community Relationship, School Business Relationship
New England Board of Higher Education, 2018
Surveys of New England employers, college academic officers, and graduates find that many consider today's college graduates inadequately prepared for the world of work. In 2017, the New England Board of Higher Education convened the Commission on Higher Education & Employability, under the leadership of Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Career Readiness
Ford, Volney H. – VocEd, 1983
Comprehensiveness is the key to the success of Job Corps programs. Corps centers attempt to rectify deficiencies in social attitudes, self-esteem, drug/health problems, and work habits, while providing intensive skill training and work experience to economically and educationally disadvantaged youth. (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Potential

Larsson, Laura – Journal of Human Resources, 2003
Nonparametric matching was used to estimate the effects of two Swedish youth employment programs: youth practice (subsidized work experience, n=1,657) and labor market training (n=606). Results indicate either zero or negative effects on earnings, employment probability, or probability of entering an education program in the short term. Youth…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Job Training, Labor Market
Lee, Chris; Zemke, Ron – Training, 1984
Why do employers go to the trouble and considerable expense of providing training for the people who work for them? Traditionally, the purpose of company-sponsored training has been to prepare specific people to do specific jobs or to do them better. (SSH)
Descriptors: Employees, Employment Potential, Human Resources, Job Skills
Powell, Dianne C. – 1988
Since 1983, Michigan has addressed youth unemployment through the Michigan Youth Corps (MYC), a state-supported summer jobs program. Administered by the Michigan Department of Labor and funded by general appropriation of the Michigan legislature, MYC is the nation's largest state-funded youth employment program. The service delivery area (SDA)…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Employment Programs, Job Skills, Job Training
Harrison, Jeremy; McLeish, Henry – 1987
Written for practitioners rather than policymakers, this document is intended for those who seek to relate educational and training opportunities to local and individual needs; use fresh approaches to integrated services for young people trapped by unemployment, social and economic change, and poor living conditions; and achieve high quality…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1989
These two documents, addressed to the first session of the 101st Congress, are S. 543, a bill to amend the Job Training Partnership Act to strengthen the program of employment and training assistance under that act, and the Senate report, from the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to accompany S. 543. The Senate report includes amendments to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Cooperative Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Gibson, G. Ruth – 1983
This study was designed to investigate the effect of participation in the first-year Coordinated Vocational Academic Education Program (CVAE) and the effect of participation in work experience on the knowledge of basic employment skills and work attitudes of disadvantaged youth in selected Georgia high schools. The study compared the scores on the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Wacker, David P.; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1986
In association with three months of training in clerical tasks at a community job site, two 19-year-old mentally retarded females demonstrated an increase in incidental behaviors, defined as behaviors which increased independence in a job setting but did not receive direct instruction from staff. (Author/JW)
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Employment Potential, Females, Job Training