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Green, Francis; Henseke, Golo; Schoon, Ingrid – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
We present new evidence on the pandemic's effects on youth, for the first time focusing on perceived effects on the learning of job skills, as well as on education. The context is post-Brexit Britain. We find that 47% of young people in a representative sample perceive a loss of learning of job skills, while a sizeable minority (17%) judge that…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Job Skills, Achievement Gains, Electronic Learning
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Otto, Michelle – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the percentage of expenditure on public education of a country and the effect that each percentage mark has on the economic growth, and therefore Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a country. The goal of this paper is to explore how investment in education impacts the economic growth of…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Economic Development, Skilled Workers, Social Systems
Schmick, Ethan J.; Shertzer, Allison – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
Cities in the United States dramatically expanded spending on public education in the years following World War I, with the average urban school district increasing per pupil expenditures by over 70 percent between 1916 and 1924. We provide the first evaluation of these historically unprecedented investments in public education by compiling a new…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Education, Educational Finance, Achievement Gap
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Smith, Emma; White, Patrick – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Concerns over the supply of highly-skilled (HS) science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) workers are well established and have been a feature of policy discourse in the UK for more than 50 years. Since the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union, these concerns have been exacerbated by uncertainty about the movement of labour…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Graduates, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities
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Alla-Mensah, Joyceline; McGrath, Simon – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Skills training in the informal economy, known as informal apprenticeship, caters to the skills needs of millions of young people in the Global South. While it predates the development of formal Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems, it was not until the 'discovery' of the informal economy in the 1970s that attention was…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Informal Education, Job Training, Developing Nations
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Thayer, Yvonne; Carliner, Saul; Driscoll, Margaret – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
In 2017, the authors began research for a book that would suggest training needs for the U.S. and Canadian workforce in the coming decades. Early in the research process they realized there was much more to understand in an evolving workplace than the call for reskilling workers. Workers would face many decisions influencing their careers while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods, Job Skills, Automation
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Eades, Daniel C.; Hughes, David W. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2018
Researchers and practitioners are aware of the importance of the skills of the local workforce in attracting and developing businesses in a regional economy. There has been, however, relatively little applied research concerning the identification of labor skill gaps in rural areas. We seek to address this issue through a case study of the Upper…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Rural Areas, Agricultural Occupations, Employment Opportunities
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Dixon, Raymond A. – Journal of Research in Technical Careers, 2021
This study explored the process followed by a small manufacturing company in a rural area to implement a planned training program to develop the technical skills of its engineering/production workers as the company expands its operation. A case study design was used. Data was collected over an eight-month period by the examination of documents,…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Rural Areas, High School Students, Technical Education
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Bar-Haim, Eyal; Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
In many countries, the skilled labor market has lagged educational expansion. As a result of increased competition, younger cohorts of the highly educated face decreasing returns to education or overeducation. Surprisingly, decreasing occupational outcomes do not coincide empirically with the economic returns among those with tertiary education.…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Labor Market, Postsecondary Education, Educational Trends
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Lim, Doo Hun; Ryu, Hyunok; Jin, Bora – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2020
Accelerated aging trend has become a serious issue in meeting workforce demand in many developing and developed countries. Various workplace interventions have been sought to address this issue. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent that there is a typology of older workers whose skill proficiency and skill utilization are influenced…
Descriptors: Adults, Work Environment, Intervention, Foreign Countries
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Taye, Fasil Nigussie; Huijsmans, Roy – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
In this article, we bring to the foreground an understudied dimension of working children's lives in the Global South: their access to money and the consumption this facilitates. Drawing on life history interviews, we show that among the Gamo weavers of Ethiopia, the modern phenomenon of a monetised childhood is at least six decades old and an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Personal Narratives, Apprenticeships
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
Feng, Yun – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation studies the effects of China's higher education expansion reform on workers' labor market outcomes. In Chapter 1, I investigate how China's higher education expansion reform affects young workers' labor market outcomes. Using data from the 2005 China Population Survey, I estimate the effects of the reform using a diff-in-diff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Higher Education, Educational Development
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Chwialkowska, Agnieszka – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
Despite excellent education and a rich working experience in their home countries, skilled expatriates struggle to find employment that matches their qualifications. This article goes beyond the dominant stress and emotions' perspective on underemployment and presents the challenges of skilled migrant labour through the lens of the Common In-group…
Descriptors: Underemployment, Skilled Workers, Foreign Workers, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Reegård, Kaja; Debowski, Horacy – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Context: The topic of this paper is how mass emigration of skilled workers affects national policies, and employers' willingness to invest in Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Poland. In the wake of EU enlargement in 2004, Poland became one of the biggest sending countries for skilled labour to Western European countries. These massive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers, Vocational Education, Labor Supply
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