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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Career Mobility"”.
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Essays on career mobility in the UK labour market
… on topics related to occupational and industrial mobility. Using quarterly data of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) from 1992 to 2013, Chapter 2 documents the mobility across occupations and industries (referred to as career change). The findings suggest that occupational and industrial mobility are …
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The Mentoring of Nonprofessional, Nonmanagerial Women Who Are Pursuing Upward Career Mobility
… strategy for individuals desiring upward career mobility. Because women have unique problems based in their socialization it has been asserted that mentors will be keys to their upward mobility. However, women in business find few women mentors and because it is rare for women to be tapped …
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Forging Our Path: Exploring Career Mobility Among Women of Color in Collegiate Higher-Level Leadership Positions
… has resulted in fewer opportunities for career advancement to senior and executive positions. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of career mobility for 12 women of color in collegiate higher-level leadership positions. This research advances …
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The Principal as a Boundary Role Person: Career Mobility and Gender in Relation to Role Behaviors
Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Being and Becoming Public School Teachers: Career Mobility of Chinese Overseas-Trained Teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area
… this study explored the relationship between career decisions and the social context of history, culture, and economic forces of five Chinese overseas-trained teachers who became public school teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Analysis attended to career attractors, aspirations, …
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An Exploratory Study of Lived Experiences of Black African Highly Qualified, Highly Skilled Migrant Women’s Career Mobility in England’s Public Sector Organisations
… unlike other migrant groups) and disadvantage (career progression challenges), paying attention to social group re-socialisation, identity meaning-making and reconstruction as drivers for career trajectories. It focused on illuminating the participants’ journeys, from restricted stay visa …
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The study of the impact of the M.S. in Agronomy Distance Education Program on student careers
… State University has had an impact on students' career mobility and economic status. Lifelong learning opportunities for agricultural professionals, like a majority of other field professional are growing exponentially. During the 2004 fall semester, 53 participants in the Master of Science in …
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Gender at Work: A Mixed Methods Study of Workplace Inequalities in the Quebec Legal Profession
… than men. Women continue to face challenges with career mobility. Experiences of a chilly climate are an additional barrier faced by women. These inequalities in the context of the legal profession in Quebec have received very limited attention in the sociological literature. This dissertation …
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Beyond Stacking: An Exploration of the Impact of Background on Leadership Recruitment and Positional Segregation in Division-I Womens Basketball
… are often is seen as vehicles of social and career mobility, especially at the collegiate levels where full athletics scholarships grant students access to higher education. While sport, on the surface and at its best, espouses the values of equality and merit, studies examining …
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The complexity of the future of work
… and income inequality as well as decreasing career mobility and spatial mobility for workers. Although a given technology impacts demand for only a narrow set of workplace skills, modern empirical work relies on coarse labor distinctions between cognitive and physical or routine and …
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The center cannot hold?: Elite mobility and patronage in the North Caucasus during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods
This thesis explores the evolution of elite mobility and patronage in the North Caucasus across the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The North Caucasus is defined as Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, and Stavropol krai. The thesis examines the …
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Inequality in the work visa approvals of U.S. immigrants
… Government agents' visa approvals may also shape career mobility among those immigrants previously granted legal standing through the evaluation of requests to change jobs or employers. In these evaluations, however, sending country level of economic development is not a statistically significant …
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Career and Mentorship Experiences of Women Educational Administrators in Rural Community Colleges
… opportunities, development opportunities, and career mobility. This study aimed to report how mentorship relationships came about and delves into the state of leadership training programs amongst Higher Education Leaders. Along that line it is important to discover if that working relationship …
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An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Wages, Mismatch, On-the-Job Search and Education
… that over-education and mismatch is part of a career mobility or job-to-job transition in the labour market. Workers accept jobs for which they are overqualified and search on-the-job to move to jobs that are more matched to their educational level. In the process they accept a wage cut which …
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A Structural Model of Relationships Between Employee Characteristics, Supervisory Mentoring Behaviors and Job Satisfaction
… a positive effect on employees professional and career success. Some of the benefits that have been cited include increased job satisfaction, increased organizational commitment, and increased self-esteem among mentored employees. In addition to these short-term benefits, developmental mentoring …
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Analyzing cities' complex socioeconomic networks using computational science and machine learning
… what are social skills' relation to career mobility? Which would inform strategies to mitigate the negative effects of automation and off-shoring on employment. Third, given the importance of the social dimension in cities, what theoretical model can explain such results, and what are …
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Disaggregating the Monolith: A Case Study on Varied Engineering Career Orientations and Strategies of Black Women in Tech
… I use an anti-deficit approach to examine the career orientations and mobility patterns of Black women working in computing and engineering roles in the tech industry. By characterizing the different career motivations, strategies, and points of transition in the careers of a diverse sample of …
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‘Working for nothing?’ : how do students and graduates utilise unpaid work for career mobilities?
… degree is no longer enough to guarantee graduate career success, so work experience increasingly provides a way to meet requirements of graduate employers. Such experience is often unpaid in the form of internships, work experience and volunteering. In a neoliberal culture that promotes individual …
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Over-education in the Labour Market: Evidence from Australia
… worker ‘skill matching’ on earnings and labour mobility. The analyses are at the individual level based on micro-panel-data in the Australian labour market. The first essay explores the determinants of over-education and its impact on earnings in the Australian labour market by using both pooled …
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