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Outi Irjala – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Changes in university staffing structures, the professionalisation of support staff and their increasing role in universities have been studied with varying perspectives and methods over the last two decades. The discussion has recently been enriched by the research conducted in different national settings. This paper contributes to the…
Descriptors: Universities, School Personnel, Employment Qualifications, Professional Personnel
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Salvatori, Sara; Terrón-Caro, Teresa – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
This article examines the integration of skilled Mexican female workers in the Monterrey labor market, and the relationship with the genesis of migratory flows toward the city of Houston. Following this line of investigation, the feminization of Mexican migration toward the US is considered, in part, to be the result of unfavorable conditions…
Descriptors: Females, Employed Women, Skilled Workers, Immigrants
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Raymaker, Dora M.; Sharer, Mirah; Maslak, Joelle; Powers, Laurie E.; McDonald, Katherine E.; Kapp, Steven K.; Moura, Ian; Wallington, Anna; Nicolaidis, Christina – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Autistic people experience disparities in employment which may be exacerbated for individuals in skilled employment. Little is known about the experiences of autistic people in skilled employment or how they define success. We used a community-based participatory research approach to conduct a thematic analysis with an inductive approach at a…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Job Skills, Supervisors, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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Sevilla, María-Paola; Farías, Mauricio – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
One of the most salient characteristics of the recent evolution of Chilean higher education system is its rapid expansion. Conversely, the competencies required for the workforce have been slower to emerge. This paper examines the incidence of qualification and skill mismatches across different populations, across age groups, gender, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
George Marshall; Eric Fecteau – Statistics Canada, 2023
The contribution of immigration to the Canadian economy and society has been of continued importance in recent decades, due to being the main driver of population growth and their importance on the labour market. Given that Canada and other countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are competing for skilled…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Employment Qualifications
Dong Hoon Shin – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2023
Skill mismatch, the discrepancy between the skill levels held by employees and those demanded by employers, has long been of interest to analysts of the labor market. Such mismatches are worth exploring to better understand the processes of recruitment and career development and the role of education in the labor market. This study aims to analyze…
Descriptors: Family Life, Family Life Education, Courses, Gender Differences
Scaglione, Matías D. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2018
This paper presents a new approach to the identification of relatively skilled occupations that do not typically require a bachelor's degree for entry. I call this group of occupations Skilled Non-College Occupations (SNCOs). The proposed approach relies heavily on a new skills index based on data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET)…
Descriptors: Skilled Occupations, Employment, Employment Qualifications, Occupational Information
Deloris Y. McBride – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As the global need for unfilled cybersecurity positions is projected to reach nearly 3.5 million by 2021, cybercrime proliferates. Talent shortage in cybersecurity continues to reach widespread magnitudes and individuals are inadequately prepared to assume positions requiring significant responsibilities. The challenge of filling the cybersecurity…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Curriculum Design, Career Readiness, Job Skills
MDRC, 2017
Many adults--particularly those with just a high school education--struggle to get and keep jobs that pay enough to support their families and permit upward mobility. At the same time, some employers report difficulty finding people with the right skills to meet their needs. Programs that target in-demand industries or sectors and heavily involve…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Training Methods
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Popov, D. S.; Strelnikova, A. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
This article studies the problem of the discrepancy between attained education and employment in Russia. Our research relies on the results of an international study of adult competencies (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, or PIAAC) that measured the reading literacy and numeracy of working-age people using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
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Bidyuk, Natalya; Oleskova, Halyna – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
This article deals with the study of current status and prospects for development of nursing professions in Germany. It outlines the classification of "Healthcare Professions" and "Healthcare and Nursing Professions", which are also identified with "Nursing Professions". Besides, such concepts as "nursing",…
Descriptors: Nursing, Foreign Countries, Classification, Employment Qualifications
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Thondhlana, Juliet – Educational Review, 2020
Research on the labour market experiences of highly skilled migrants has revealed the crippling employability challenges they face in the UK workplace resulting from the devaluation of their homeland qualifications and experiences. Studies on highly skilled migrants from Zimbabwe have revealed how migrants have to resort to semi-skilled and…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Labor Market, Immigrants, Employment Qualifications
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Wierschem, David; Mediavilla, Francis A. Mendez – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2018
Employers demand for skilled technology workers has never been higher. Opportunities for individuals interested in working in technology to acquire the requisite skills have expanded to meet the increased demand. The expansion of training offerings calls into question the quality of new ventures such as coding academies and the necessity of…
Descriptors: Entry Workers, Skilled Workers, Information Technology, Job Skills
Kirk, Diana; Luxton-Reilly, Andrew; Tempero, Ewan – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2020
New Zealand has a shortage of skilled workers in information technology (IT). Skills relating to computer programming (e.g., software engineer, applications programmer, software tester, web developer) all appear on the 2019 Long Term Skill Shortage List published by Immigration New Zealand. In many parts of the world, demand for computing…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers, Computer Science Education
Jeanne Batalova; Michael Fix – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2022
More than 10 million U.S. workers with college degrees, or one in six, are immigrants. While many have found jobs that make full use of their education and skills, nearly a quarter are underemployed, that is, they are either working in jobs that require no more than a high school diploma or are out of work. Tackling immigrants' skill…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Literacy, Higher Education, Educational Attainment
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