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The Multifaceted Impact of Erasmus Programme on the School-to-Work Transition: A Matching Sensitivity Analysis
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Giuseppe Croce; Emanuela Ghignoni – Research in Higher Education, 2024
This study investigates the effects of studying abroad through the Erasmus Programme (EP), a European Union programme launched primarily to foster international mobility and cultural exchange of University students, on the school-to-work transition of university graduates. Since a satisfactory transition does not only mean finding a job, but also…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Experience, Study Abroad, Educational Cooperation
Labour Market Experience, Educational Attainment and Self-Reported Happiness: Crowding-Out amongst Young People in Hong Kong
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Kühner, Stefan; Jiang, Jin; Wen, Zhuoyi; Lau, Maggie – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Recent literature on education and work well recognises the 'crowding-out perspective' of how higher education expansion impacts the labour market experience of young people with different educational levels. However, the relationship between the labour market experience and young people's self-reported happiness remains less well understood. This…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Adolescents, Young Adults, Psychological Patterns
Parental Work Demands and Parent-Child, Family, and Couple Leisure in Dutch Families: What Gives?
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Roeters, Anne; Treas, Judith K. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
This study uses data on 898 Dutch couples with minor children to examine whether parental work demands are related differently to one-on-one parent-child, family, and couple leisure activities. The authors presume that the impact of working hours and work arrangements is smaller on activities that are prioritized highly and that are easier and…
Descriptors: Working Hours, Mothers, Foreign Countries, Child Rearing
Working Time in Comparative Perspective. Volume II: Life-Cycle Working Time and Nonstandard Work.
Houseman, Susan, Ed.; Nakamura, Alice, Ed. – 2001
This is the second of two volumes of selected papers presented at the 1996 conference "Changes in Working Hours in Canada and the United States." Eleven chapters explore an expanded set of working-time issues, which may be loosely grouped under these two topics: working time over the life cycle and nonstandard work arrangements.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Career Education, Comparative Analysis
The Nature of Work and the Stress of Higher Status
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Schieman, Scott; Whitestone, Yuko Kurashina; Van Gundy, Karen – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2006
Are occupational and work conditions associated with work-to-home conflict? If so, do those associations vary by gender? Among a sample of adults in Toronto, Canada, we found that men and women in higher-status occupations reported higher levels of work-to-home conflict than workers in lower-status jobs. In addition, we observed higher levels of…
Descriptors: Occupations, Role Conflict, Foreign Countries, Stress Variables
The Changing Shape of Work.
Brown, Richard K., Ed. – 1997
This book contains nine papers that were presented to the Sociology and Social Policy section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The first paper, "Introduction: Work and Employment in the 1990s" (Richard Brown), puts work and employment in a historical context and examines how globalization of the economy has…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Economic Change, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship