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Direct linkWhittard, Damian; Drew, Hilary; Ritchie, Felix – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
The student workforce plays a substantial part in several low-paying industries such as retail and hospitality, and this has grown over time. However, there has been little recent research. The usual assumption is that students compete successfully with the local labour force for low-skill, part-time jobs, but there is little evidence for this.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employers, Student Employment, Employer Attitudes
Kraak, Andre – Journal of Education and Work, 2005
This article presents a critique of the 'high skills' argument which, in the international literature, presents a high skill strategy as an adjunct and necessary condition for the successful expansion of human resources development (HRD) alongside social market institutions and 'joined up' policy. For a developing country such as South Africa,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Unemployment, Human Resources
