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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Occupational Skills"”.
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Occupational Skills and Gender Wage Gap
… consists of three essays studying the occupational wages, skills, and gender wage gap in U.S. and other OECD countries. The analysis especially focuses on how the gender differences in skill levels and skill returns could explain the gender wage gaps and changes. The first chapter …
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Caging the Rainbow: The Effects of Center-Periphery Conflict on a Major Adult Education Program in India (Planning, Charisma, Bureaucracy)
… in literacy as well as in the development of occupational skills and social awareness to the target population. That goal grew out of the Janata Government's charismatic vision of a renewed, restructured, and revolutionized India. Local implementation of the program was to be through the …
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Postsecondary data processing advisory committees: organization, operation, effectiveness, and leadership style
… reported the most participation in identifying occupational skills, recommending content of the program, determining course relevancy, and evaluating on-going programs. The lowest reported participation was dealing with instruction for the disadvantaged and elimination of sex bias. Committee …
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Employment and training programs : from CETA to JOBS.
… Act (JTPA), the Job Opportunity and Basic Skills Training Program (JOBS), and a case study of the Central Texas Council of Governments/Central Texas Private Industry Council Employment and Training Division are presented. By tracking 934 participants who participated in employment and …
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A study of the effectiveness of advisory committees in Virginia community colleges
… in helping with the identification of occupational skills needed by program graduates and in identifying area labor market needs.
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Career and Technical Education Program Alignment with Local Workforce Needs
… alignment and provision of 21st century soft skills. This study utilized a quantitative approach devoid of researcher invention. Job quotients were used as a measure of program alignment. Job quotients were calculated using the number of jobs available in particular labor markets as the …
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A follow-up study of 1989-90 graduates and dropouts with learning disabilities participating in vocational programs in a large urban school system
… employment history and experience, rating of occupational skills, and support service delivery. Data were presented in a descriptive format. Results revealed that the majority of graduates and dropouts were not adjusting to their post-school life, especially dropouts. Few sought further …
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Making it Work: Credential and Employment Outcomes of Out-of-School Youth in Southside Virginia
… who face similar barriers are unable to obtain occupational skills credentials and/or employment? The findings of this study suggest that out-of-school youth with barriers to education and employment are able to succeed in postsecondary education as well as the job market when they have access …
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Development of a Rating Scale for the Measurement of Adult Social Skills
<p>Social skills are a person’s ability to adapt to the environment appropriately utilizing verbal and nonverbal communication (Matson et al., 2007). In accordance with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – fifth edition (DSM-5), individuals diagnosed with Autism demonstrate …
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The role of self-regulation, self-efficacy, and outcome expectancy value on physical activity of former division I student athletes
… Minds for Personal Success (CHAMPS) Life Skills program to assist student athletes with this transition. In this program personal development outside of occupational skills is often ignored. Though physical activity appears to be of little focus of the CHAMPS Life Skill program, recent …
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National industry-based skill standards technical committees: perceptions of adoption of standards in vocational education programs
… standards, including certification of occupational skills and competencies. The identification, by those who developed the standards, of their perceptions of their adoption might enable business and industry and the labor and education communities to better utilize skill standards. The …
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Three Essays Applying Dynamic Models in Economics, Finance, and Machine Learning
… a Mincer wage equation using US census data and occupational skills data from the Occupational Information Network. Several Monte Carlo exercises are carried out to better understand the behavior of the model on simulated datasets with varying degrees of heterogeneity.</p> <p><strong>A Comparison …
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Developing a Model for the Organization, Administration, and Programs for Community Colleges in Malaysia
… secondary school graduates, (2) provide occupational skills in semi-professional fields, (3) serve as stepping stones for motivated students to continue their education in universities, (4) meet the needs for skilled manpower in business, industry and other professions, (5) cater to the …
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Demand for Skills Associated with Higher Technical Education in England
… an expansion in jobs requiring the high-level skills associated with degrees (but not HTE) and an increasing complexity of the job content. This changing mix of jobs and tasks performed in the workplace could, in turn, be triggered by recent technologies and management methods that drive up the …