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School closures and their implications for student outcomes: evidence from Lithuania Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Eglė Jakučionytė, Indrė Pusevaitė, Swapnil Singh
This paper studies the effect of school closures on student outcomes in the Lithuanian context. Using administrative student-level data from 2013–2017 and propensity score matching, we create a bal...
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Transforming the experiential learning of sport management graduates into transferable employability signals Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Mary T Grant, Clare Hanlon, Janet A Young
Graduate employability plays a critical role during job recruitment and selection. Practical experience provides a strong foundation from which sport management graduates can signal their employabi...
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The effect of fields of study on the waiting time to employment: evidence from the National Graduate Survey of Canada 2005 and 2009/10 cohorts Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Komin Qiyomiddin
By utilising the National Graduate Survey (NGS) – class of 2005 and 2009/10 – this paper examines the effects of fields of study on the time it takes to find full-time employment that lasts at leas...
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Competency-based training within the prison system: enhancing the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity upon release Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Martina Brophy, Ana Pérez-Luño, Thomas M Cooney
Recidivism rates across the world remain high, and one of the key reasons for this situation is that people leaving the prison system have great difficulty in securing employment. Addressing this i...
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Early career workers granted creative autonomy: agency shifts intern debate towards industry expectations Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Joseph R. Giomboni
This research contributes to debates on intern labour, particularly preparing young workers for careers in the culture industries and exploitative experiences that may hinder their success. The pur...
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Maintaining the gap: women’s early career experiences of entry into the UK graduate labour market Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Ruth Brooks, Tray Yeadon-Lee, Santokh Singh Gill
Gender inequality in the workplace remains a persistent issue that impacts upon women from their first point of entry into the labour market. In this paper, we explore the experiences, of 20 women ...
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The rise of the digital labour market: characteristics and implications for the study of education, opportunity and work Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Manuel Souto-Otero, Phillip Brown
How the labour market operates in an increasingly digital context has remained under-researched. The article explains why the digital labour market is in urgent need of study, as digitalisation tra...
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Developing an understanding of the labour market: the value of social, cultural and identity capital according to first- and continuing-generation graduates Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ayla De Schepper, Eva Kyndt, Noel Clycq
This study examines graduates’ understanding of the labour market and its association with structural and agentic factors in the transition from higher education to work. Research has shown that be...
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The role of vocational training in ICT firms: the revelation Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Mikel Albizu, Miren Estensoro
The fourth revolution has led to a tremendous increase in the demand for IT specialists. Until recently, this sector had traditionally recruited university graduates, but given the shortage of cand...
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Forming a supranational boundary-spanning policy regime – European intersectoral coordination in education and employment Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Marcelo Marques, Lukas Graf, Judith Rohde-Liebenau
While European governance of individual policy sectors has received considerable academic scrutiny, less attention has been paid to the development of intersectoral coordination. This paper charts ...
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Pressing the right button—labour market odds for youth with mental illness Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Ines Hardoy, Kristine von Simson
Mental disorders threaten the chances of finishing secondary school and can hinder the school-to-work transitions of afflicted youths. Earlier onset depression predicts the chronicity, recurrence, ...
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Life course challenges in crises: transition from higher education to work during COVID-19 in Finland and Sweden Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Julia A. Nuckols, Anu Sirola, Minna Ylilahti, Terhi-Anna Wilska
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the daily continuity of young people by causing financial insecurity, remote work/studies, loss of work, loneliness, stress, and unpredictability of the future. Thi...
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The impact of COVID-19 on young people’s employability: the potential of sport-based interventions as non-formal education Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Haydn Morgan, Harry Bowles, Anthony Bush
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected young people in relation to their mental health, educational provision, and social development, impacting their employment prospects and future pro...
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The first two years: lessons for educators from UK entry-level workers in film and TV Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Neil Percival
This article shares the findings from a two-year longitudinal study of the employment experiences of entry-level workers in the UK film and TV industries, with particular reference to the value the...
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‘Getting in’ or ‘moving on’? On internship experiences and representation in the popular music festival sector Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Britt Swartjes, Pauwke Berkers
The cultural workforce has previously been described as pre-dominantly white, male and middle-class. Internships are often seen as a solution as they would function as a ‘democratising path to laun...
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The European Sectoral Social Dialogue in Education and the strengthening of the European Union’s policy regime in education and employment Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Tore Bernt Sorensen, Xavier Dumay
This paper traces the development of the European Sectoral Social Dialogue in Education since its launch in 2010 and situates it within the context of European Union (EU) governance. The paper adop...
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The role of European (transnational) business actors in the emergence of a boundary spanning policy regime in European education and employment Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Marina Cino Pagliarello
Although research on European education policy has aptly focused on the role of supranational and intergovernmental actors, less attention has been devoted to its analysis as a policy arena in whic...
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The emergence of European boundary-spanning policy regimes: analysing intersectoral policy coordination in education and employment Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Lukas Graf, Marcelo Marques, Tore Bernt Sorensen, Xavier Dumay
While much attention has been paid to European policy arrangements in individual policy fields, European intersectoral policy coordination has been mostly an overlooked phenomenon, especially withi...
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The dispositions and tactics of school sixth-formers who reject the institutional ‘push’ to university Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Nuala Burgess
This paper examines the experiences of a group of 16- to 18-year-old students in two publicly funded London schools who did not conform to expectations and rejected university as a post-school dest...
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Educational inclusion or inequality? Opportunities and barriers for refugees with a temporary suspension of deportation for the purpose of training in the German vocational education and training system Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Katharina Wehking
ABSTRACT This article examines the legal novelty of the so-called ‘Ausbildungsduldung’ (temporary suspension of deportation for the purpose of training) in Germany. Since research on this topic is still sparse, the current article analyses the impact of toleration status on training trajectories of young refugees. These trajectories are strongly linked to the completion of vocational training and thus
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Communities of practice for contemporary leadership development and knowledge exchange through work-based learning Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Lisa Rowe, Lisa Knight, Paul Irvine, Joanne Greenwood
This study explores the experiences of leaders who have led organisations and teams through an extended period of crisis management whilst completing a UK work-based master’s programme. This paper ...
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Predicting stable employment trajectories among young people with disabilities Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Jannike Gottschalk Ballo, Andreea Ioana Alecu
Research aiming to explain disabled people’s inequalities in the labour market has primarily focused on transitional factors between school and work, wage gaps, or socioeconomic background characte...
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Theorizing learning circles – a Nordic tradition revitalized in times of social innovation imperatives Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Marie Aakjaer, Charlotte Wegener
Learning circles has a long tradition in the Nordic countries as a model for adult non-formal education, but has gained little scholarly attention and is thus sparsely theorised. The purpose of thi...
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Investigating the impact of experiential learning on employability skill development and employment outcomes: a UK case study of MBA students from the Indian Subcontinent Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Victoria Jackson, Vicki O’Brien, Anita Richards
Global economic events have had a profound effect upon both businesses and the available workforce. Industries need a more skilful and advanced labour market and individuals who complete tertiary-l...
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Where there’s a WIL, there’s a way: upwardly mobile young men pursuing non-formal WIL opportunities to enhance employability Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Garth Stahl, Jianing Wang
ABSTRACT Historically, males from low socio-economic backgrounds have been a difficult demographic for educators to reach and engage. Despite efforts to widen participation in Australia, males who would be considered ‘first-in-family’, remain severely underrepresented in higher education. For those who do attend, they often encounter significant barriers and are at a higher risk of attrition. Experiences
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“I’ve got a mountain of paperwork to do!” Literacies and texts in a cycle technicians’ workshop Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Jonathan Tummons
ABSTRACT Derived from an ethnography of working cultures and practices at a bike shop in the North of England, this paper rests on a critical application of social practice theories of literacy (Literacy Studies) in order to explore the complex and heterogeneous literacy practices of cycle technicians. Drawing on a series of vignettes constructed from the ethnographic data, the paper demonstrates the
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Correction Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-05-25
Published in Journal of Education and Work (Vol. 36, No. 5, 2023)
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Over (under) education and wages: another look on the return to education Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Yaakov Gilboa
ABSTRACT Much research has been made in recent years on the effect of over and under education on earnings. In this paper, I examine the validity of the assumption that the return to over (under) education is independent of the level of education. I use data from the PIAAC survey to estimate the return to education. The findings show that while this assumption might be valid for the return to under-education
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Neo-androgynous management: managing the English further education in an era of neoliberalism? Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Stephen Corbett, Karen Johnston
ABSTRACT The study draws on mixed methods research with further education middle managers across England in order to explore whether there are gendered differences in management. There remain debates about whether there are gender differences in management or leadership. The study adds to this debate with results that reveal that women and men are behaviourally flexible, employing a repertoire of knowledge
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Jockeying for position: university students’ employability constructions Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Miira Niska
ABSTRACT As governments and international organisations have pressured universities to demonstrate the value and effectiveness of tertiary education, universities have started to highlight graduate employability as a key driver and measure of university outcomes. This paper contributes to the underutilised processual employability studies by applying the framework of critical discursive psychology
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The uneven earnings benefits for men and women of skills acquisition in a virtual university Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Riccardo Valente, Martin Carnoy, Albert Sánchez-Gelabert, Josep M Duart-Montoliu
ABSTRACT Using multivariate linear regression models, this study estimates the relationship between graduates’ self-reported skill improvements from attending a virtual university, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and their salaries after obtaining the degree. Our results show that graduates made considerable earnings gains and especially high rates of return to investing in a Master’s degree
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Secondary school grades and graduate returns to education in the UK Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Christopher Lalley, Lauren McInally
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between secondary school attainment and early-career graduate salaries in the UK. Based on literature on grade inflation, we hypothesise that there is uncertainty regarding the quality of the signal communicated by degree classifications, and that secondary school grades can be used as a tool to determine the veracity of classifications. We find that differences
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Relational approaches to employability Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Sarah Pearson, Colin Lindsay, Elaine Batty, Anne Marie Cullen, Will Eadson
ABSTRACT As policymakers consider how best to respond to increased labour market volatility in post-Covid-19 economies, there is concern that vulnerable groups such as lone parents may be left behind, and consensus that we need to develop more responsive and person-centred approaches to employability. Drawing on Cottam’s (2011, 2018) work on ‘relational welfare’, and the principles of the capabilities
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‘I need to switch the job’. Young rural-urban migrants’ perceptions about their job during their education to work transition Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Neha Basnet, Margaretha C. Timmerman, Josje van der Linden
ABSTRACT Young people’s choices and decisions during their education to work transition reflect their perceptions about work. Empirical studies of these perceptions of young rural-urban migrants are limited. This article explores the perceptions of young rural-urban migrants working at call centres in Kathmandu and the way these perceptions are associated with socio-cultural values and beliefs. The
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Hard and soft skill needs: higher education and the Fintech sector Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Oran Doherty, Simon Stephens
ABSTRACT This paper explores the implications for higher education of the emergence of new industries, driven by technological changes. The pace of technology-driven changes creates significant challenges for the alignment between the skill needs of industry and provision by higher education. Drawing on concepts from neo-correspondence theory, we examine the emergence of the FinTech sector. We present
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‘Invested’ partnerships as key to high quality apprenticeship programmes as evidenced in on and off the job training Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Michaela Brockmann, Rob Smith
ABSTRACT In England, a new model of apprenticeship was initiated in whose stated intention was to ‘put employers in the driving seat’. Regulation of the new model was focused on the mandatory 20% of apprentices’ work time allocated to off-the-job training offered by colleges and other training providers. Based on case studies of employers and training providers across a range of industry sectors, this
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Uncertainty and change in American youth occupational expectations Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Maria Adamuti-Trache, Yi Leaf Zhang
ABSTRACT Grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), this study contributes to empirical efforts to understand factors affecting the career-development process of American youth by focusing on change in occupational expectations between age 16 and 26. The study is based on the secondary analysis of longitudinal data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002. The main result is that occupational
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Always happy: an ideal is reproduced and challenged in hairdresser vocational education and training Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Eva Klope, Maria Hedlin
ABSTRACT In the hairdressing occupation emotional labour has often come to overshadow other vocational skills. The present study, using ethnographic methods, explores how students and teachers in vocational education and training (VET) for hairdressers in Sweden describe and explain the emotional labour being carried out when a hairdresser perform good service. The results show that to look happy and
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Higher education student motivations for extracurricular activities: evidence from UK universities Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Gary Chapman, Washad Emambocus, Demola Obembe
ABSTRACT Higher education students are required to demonstrate value beyond their curricula achievements to secure jobs in increasingly competitive labour markets. Focusing on extracurricular activities as one-way students can do so, this paper uses a motivation perspective to examine what drives students to engage in extracurricular activities, and how student motivation varies between early and late-stage
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Challenges, barriers and strategies for engaging in level 7 apprenticeship studies Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Richard Poole, Fiona Cook, Stuart Sims, Joanne Brindley
ABSTRACT This study explores the lived experience of apprentices on a degree-level programme and their perceptions of how elements of apprenticeship study that aren’t components of traditional degree study – i.e. off-the-job training – impact their learner journey. This article undertakes a thematic analysis following qualitative interviews with eleven apprentices, who are early-career academic professionals
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Introduction to the special issue: positionality and social inequality in graduate careers Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret, Gerbrand Tholen, Agnès van Zanten
Published in Journal of Education and Work (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2023)
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Transitions, choices and patterns in time: young people’s educational and occupational orientation Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Raphaela Kogler, Susanne Vogl, Franz Astleithner
ABSTRACT At the end of compulsory schooling, young people face an important transition: they have to decide whether to pursue either further schooling or vocational training. Choices are crucial phenomena in transitions: they are based on what a person considers to be options and follow preferences shaped by their social position and context. Using a qualitative longitudinal interview approach, we
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Competence importance and acquisition: comparing qualified and non-qualified vocational teachers Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Sofia Antera
ABSTRACT Experiencing a teacher shortage, Sweden has allowed vocational teachers to gain employment without teaching qualifications. In this context, a population of non-qualified vocational teachers has emerged, a group of people rarely captured by national statistics and previous research. This study aims to shed light on the profile of non-qualified vocational teachers. By highlighting the potential
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Understanding motivational beliefs of women in postsecondary STEM- vocational-technical education. Evidence from Chile Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2023-01-14 María Paola Sevilla, Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, Elsa Gonzalez
ABSTRACT Women face many barriers to entry into and persistence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Drawing on expectancy-value theory (EVT) and using a qualitative approach, this study sought to deeply understand women’s entry and persistence in STEM-related postsecondary Vocational Technical Education (VTE) programs that lead to male-dominated skilled trades in construction
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The perceived labour market value of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Europe and the USA Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-12-28 V. Goglio, S. Bertolini, P. Parigi
ABSTRACT The advantages of higher education have received significant attention over time. However, recent research seems to challenge this assumption. It highlights that returns to education may be subject to inflation, may vary in relation to skills, and may not be equally distributed, thus posing new questions about the role of formal education. Against this background, the growing popularity of
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The meaning of higher education credentials in graduate occupations: the view of recruitment consultants Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Gerbrand Tholen
ABSTRACT Three influential theories are used to understand why employers value and seek out educational credentials in hiring. Qualifications can function as proof of productive skills (Human Capital Theory), as a signal of desirable characteristics (Signalling and Screening theories) or as a means for social closure (Closure Theory). Although these explanations are not necessarily mutually exclusive
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Is ‘diversity’ a liability or an asset in elite labour markets? The case of graduates who have benefited from a French positive discrimination scheme Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Agnès van Zanten
ABSTRACT This article analyses the obstacles faced by graduates who benefited from a positive discrimination scheme at an elite French higher education institution. It adopts a Bourdieusian perspective enriched by research on the barriers encountered by socially mobile individuals from disadvantaged and stigmatised categories and studies the experiences of graduates who lack the economic, cultural
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‘Some people may feel socially excluded and distressed’: finnish business students’ participation in extracurricular activities and the accumulation of cultural capital Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret, Päivi Siivonen, Nina Haltia
ABSTRACT A growing number of scholars have investigated how extracurricular activities (ECA) are intimately tied to graduates’ positional competition and enhancement of employability. Prior studies have shown that the strategic tendency towards ECA especially applies to privileged, high-achieving students from a high-status university. Yet studies considering ECA as a site of gendered practices have
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‘We are all in the same storm but not in the same boat’: the COVID pandemic and the Further Education Sector Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Ken Spours, Paul Grainger, Carol Vigurs
ABSTRACT The quotation in the title from a college leader is a stark reflection of the experience of the Further Education (FE) Sector during the COVID pandemic (2020–21). Traditionally regarded as a poor relation of the English education system, evidence from Sector sources suggest that the five COVID harms identified through a scoping review of the latest research closely mirror the main social and
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Promoting Resilience with new Learning Cultures. Perception, Negotiation, Normalisation, and Enactment of Change in Workplace Learning Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Patric Raemy, Antje Barabasch
ABSTRACT Technological, social, and economic changes challenge workers’ resilience at many levels. Innovative learning cultures have the potential to accommodate industry’s skills expectations with workers need for new forms of workplace learning. This study explores the role of learning cultures as (1) moderators between stability and change, (2) indicators for promoting resilience in VET, and (3)
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The relationship between job precariousness and student burnout: a serial indirect effects model Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Peter A. Creed, Michelle Hood, Eva Selenko, Shi Hu, Louella Bagley
ABSTRACT Much research has examined the association between precarious employment and wellbeing in adults, but little is known about this relationship in working students. Using a sample of 224 (MAge 21 years; 68% female), we assessed self-perceptions of job precariousness across four domains (i.e., job insecurity, remuneration, conditions, flexibility) and tested the relationships between the four
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Coaching to support apprentice’s ability to manage their own (further) competence development: results of a case study and their implications Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Anna Keller, Antje Barabasch
ABSTRACT In vocational education and training, coaching can be used to support apprentices’ ability to manage their own (further) competence development ‘on the job’. This is largely requested among employees at workplaces in internationally competitive sectors of the economy which require of their workforce a great deal of flexibility and learning ability. So far, little is known about coaching practices
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The SAGE Handbook of Learning and Work – 2022 Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Ken Spours
Published in Journal of Education and Work (Vol. 35, No. 8, 2022)
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‘Back to work’—factors facilitating migrants’ re-entry into their previous vocations Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Eva Eliasson, Marianne Teräs, Ali Osman
ABSTRACT This article focuses on ‘successful migrants’, who have succeeded in gaining employment in Sweden in their previous vocational area. The aim is to describe factors on various levels – individual, organisational and national – that have facilitated migrants’ way back to work as well as their inclusion at workplaces. Twenty migrants and five employers/mentors were interviewed. The overarching
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Shaping a career in management: the importance of gendered expectations Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Aagoth Elise Storvik, Bente Abrahamsen
ABSTRACT The study focuses on students in professional bachelor programs, how men and women navigate career opportunities after graduation. The research is based on longitudinal data from 969 Norwegian students. A crucial finding is that when men and women have equal expectations of entering a management position, they also attain such positions equally often. The results also reveal that women have
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Towards a successful transition to work - which employability factors contribute to early career success? Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Tarja Tuononen, Heidi Hyytinen
ABSTRACT The transition from university to working life is a challenging phase for graduates. The focus in the present longitudinal study is on employability factors and their association with this transition and with early career success. The participants were 43 graduates who were interviewed at the time of their graduation and filled in a follow-up questionnaire three years later. The data were
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A dream job? Skill demand and skill mismatch in ICT Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Robert Pater, Herman Cherniaiev, Marcin Kozak
ABSTRACT We analyse labour demand and mismatch for educational traits in information and communication technology (ICT) occupations, taking into account the areas of education, occupations and skills in demand, and the supply of labour. We based our analysis on almost 40 million online job offers and a CAWI survey of people aged 18–65 in Poland. The analysis uses official classifications, and considers
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Horizontal job-education mismatches and earnings of university graduates in Russia Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Victor Rudakov, Hugo Figueiredo, Pedro Teixeira, Sergey Roshchin
ABSTRACT The study is devoted to the evaluation of the determinants of job-education mismatches and their impact on salaries of university graduates. We use a comprehensive and nationally representative survey of Russian university graduates. The study employs a self-evaluated measure of mismatch and a statistical variant for robustness and interpretation purposes. We find that one-third of the graduates
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Connecting creativity, confidence, and unconventional career plans Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Angie L. Miller, Paula Alvarez Huerta
ABSTRACT Previous research suggests that creativity training is effective in academic settings, and that creative skills are increasingly important for success within unconventional careers such as self-employment or starting a business. This study extends research on creativity and entrepreneurial training in higher education, using data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Responses
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Foreign language skills and labour market earnings in Rwanda Journal of Education and Work Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Jacqueline Muhawenayo, Olivier Habimana, Almas Heshmati
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the extent to which proficiency in English and French as a form of human capital individually determine earnings in Rwanda’s labour market and whether it still pays to be bilingual. Using data from the nationally representative Labour Force Survey conducted in 2018, our findings show that after controlling for other human capital and demographic factors, proficiency