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Monear, Daryl – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 triggered a recession and deep changes in Washington's labor market. Widespread temporary business closures, followed by a slow-paced phased reopening, have caused soaring unemployment rates. Workers are looking to improve their employability in a rapidly shifting economic landscape by reskilling into…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Labor Market, Career Development
Spiker, Katie – National Skills Coalition, 2020
The recent health crisis -- and unprecedented, rapid job loss associated with it -- has illuminated how unprepared the United States is for helping workers who lose their jobs reskill to prepare for and successfully enter new employment. Policy responses to the current crisis -- while critical -- have fallen far short of addressing challenges…
Descriptors: Unemployment, COVID-19, Pandemics, Employment
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Mulhall, Sue – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
This study narrates the role of education/training in the career success stories of twelve women on an Irish active labour market programme, Community Employment (CE). All from lower socio-economic groups, having early school-leaving backgrounds, and, prior to CE, were long-term unemployed. CE enhances the employability of the long-term unemployed…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Role of Education, Females, Dropouts
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Gibbons, Jim; Templin, Robert, Jr. – Community College Journal, 2011
Many have heard calls from national policy experts, the Obama administration, and influential foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Lumina Foundation for Education to increase the number of Americans with postsecondary credentials earned at community colleges by 5 million within 10 years. If community colleges choose to…
Descriptors: Expertise, Credentials, Dislocated Workers, Community Colleges
Francis, Caroline M. – National Poverty Center, 2013
This bibliography summarizes recent research on the structure and effectiveness of workforce development programs. While the term "workforce development" can mean many things, this document focuses on programs to help low-skill, low-wage and displaced workers increase their employment and earnings, as well as labor market trends that…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Labor Force Development, Low Income Groups, Labor Market
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Cameron, Roslyn – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2009
Research investigating the learning and career transitions of those disadvantaged in the labour market has resulted in the development of a four-component model to enable disadvantaged groups to navigate learning and career transitions. The four components of the model include: the self-concept; learning and recognition; career and life planning;…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship, Career Development
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Stegmann, Tim – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2009
The Institute for Work, Skills and Training was assigned to evaluate a labor market program aimed at the integration of long-term unemployed individuals aged 50 or older. The integration should have been achieved not only by training and coaching of individuals, but also by building regional networks between labor market stakeholders within a…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Counties
Maguire, Sheila; Freely, Joshua; Clymer, Carol; Conway, Maureen; Schwartz, Deena – Public/Private Ventures, 2010
Over the past two decades, an innovative approach to workforce development known as sectoral employment has emerged, resulting in the creation of industry-specific training programs that prepare unemployed and underskilled workers for skilled positions and connect them with employers seeking to fill such vacancies. In 2003, with funding from the…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Control Groups, Office Practice, Job Training
Griffin, Tabatha, Ed.; Beddie, Francesca, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
One of the challenges facing Australia is the ageing of the population. Of major concern, especially to government, is that the dependency ratio--a measure of the burden that economically active persons carry by supporting dependent persons--will increase significantly unless older people keep working or immigration is used to change the…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Employment Potential, Maturity (Individuals), Age Discrimination
McGivney, Veronica – 1999
Women returners now account for over one-third of the total labor force, but the British labor market remains strongly segregated by gender, with over 85 percent of all employed women in the service industries. A high proportion are employed part time. Despite a majority of women now returning to the labor market after breaks for childbirth and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Employed Women, Employment Level
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White, Frances L. – Community College Journal, 2003
Getting people back to work has become a national concern. The nation's economy lost jobs as of July 2003 for six months in a row, dealing another blow to a slow reviving labor market. According to the Labor Department, 486,000 jobs disappeared from the economy. And, the Employment Development Department in California reported a decline of 21,800…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Economics, Job Layoff, Dislocated Workers
Sommers, Dixie; Austin, James – 2002
A project used the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) to assist eligible dislocated workers in determining whether training offered by the Toledo Dislocated Worker Consortium fit their needs. More specifically, O*NET was used to help the dislocated workers understand whether they had knowledge and skills that were transferable into the…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Change, Career Information Systems, Dislocated Workers
Henry, Ann; Teschendorf, JoAnn – 1984
The Older Worker Project was conducted to provide employment services to unemployed persons aged 45 and older who live in the western part of the Hennepin County (Minneapolis, Minnesota) area. Although the expected result was permanent employment of the participants, the intention of this demonstration project was to refine service approaches…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Attitude Change, Career Change, Career Counseling