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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Occupational choices"”.
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Factors influencing the educational and occupational choices of women
<p>The purpose of this study is to examine self-efficacy in mathematics and various motivating factors among female college students who choose college majors in traditionally female-dominated fields as compared to those who chose college majors in traditionally male-dominated fields. The …
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Understanding the Occupational Choices of Rural White Southern Males
… purpose of this study was to investigate the occupational choices of rural white southern adolescent males. The study was comprised of eight core participants and an additional 30 survey respondents. This ethnography utilized six sources of data: a questionnaire, individual interviews, two …
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A Comparison of Occupational Choices of Achieving and Underachieving Highschool Juniors
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A critical ethnography of young adolescents' occupational choices in a community in post-apartheid South Africa
This thesis explored the occupational choices of young adolescents in a southern peninsula Cape Town community of Lavender Hill in South Africa. Informed by current research and prior professional and personal experiences with young adolescents in Lavender Hill, the research question asked: 'What …
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Stability or Change? Academic Self-Concept and Demographic Factors Influencing the Occupational Choices of Students Between Eighth and Eleventh Grade
… high school students, and patterns of change in occupational expectations during adolescence has received limited research attention.
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“Life’s About Choices”: Exploring the everyday occupational choices of young adults with intellectual disability in a community context in South Africa
… need to experience and inform everyday life choices, and the limited opportunities to do so, results in a contemporary health and human rights issue. Research Question: This study aims to explore what informs the everyday occupational choices made by young adults with intellectual and …
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A study of the occupational choices of senior students at Modesto High School and some of the salient factors affecting those choices
<p>This study is concerned with the problem of occupational choices of high school students and the interplay of the various factors which enter into those choices.</p>
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The Perceived Impact of The Prince Edward County School Closing on One Family's Educational Achievements and Occupational Choices in Adulthood: A Study in Recollective Memory
… adult self-directed learning, lifelong learning, occupational choices and success within a family with sixteen of its twenty-one children forced from school. Via audio-/video-taped interviews, three participants reflected upon their "lived experiences" during and since The Closing. Transcribed …
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A mixed method investigation to develop a specialised occupational therapy theory based intervention manual for use with young people with emerging mental health issues
… suggests that the balance and nature of daily occupational choices can influence mental health in adults, but its influence on adolescent mental health has yet to be fully explored. Adolescence is a key period in developing occupational choice and learning how to balance daily occupations. To …
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Three papers in international economics and macroeconomics
… examines the impact of agents' educational and occupational choices on the relationship between trade and inequality. The second chapter studies the consequences of multinational banks' organizational choices for the international transmission of shocks. The third chapter considers the …
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A case study exploring an occupational perspective of social inclusion among young adults dually afflicted with substance use disorder and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
… a thorough understanding of the case of an occupational perspective of social inclusion among dually afflicted young adults in Zimbabwe. The multiple methods used in this study included: i) narrative inquiry with five dually afflicted young adults; ii) in-depth interviews with five key …
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The Development of an Occupational Classification and Scales
The present study develops an occupational classification that represents the US workforce and links to the Standard Occupational Classification, a unified coding system used by the US government agencies to collect occupational information. The occupational classification is based on college …
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Essays on Macroeconomics with Financial Frictions
… model with human capital investment, occupational choices and financial frictions is developed. Financial frictions depress human capital accumulation and distort occupational choices of rural households. Quantitatively, our model could account for a substantial portion of the observed …
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The Value of Mentoring in Living Out Your Calling
… work volition in terms of perceived agency over occupational choices despite potential barriers. The results revealed that the greater the extent to which participants had calling motivation and work volition, the more likely they were to be classified into the “Enacted Calling” group. Results …
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Three essays on the impacts of income taxes
… Chapter Two studies the link between taxes and occupational choices. Just as taxes distort the labor-leisure decision, they also distort the wage-amenity decision. Few papers have isolated this effect. This chapter introduces a two-step estimation strategy to isolate the elasticity of occupation …
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Occupations entered by agriculture education graduates of Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1948-1958
… credit average and co-curricular activities to occupational choices and advancement, and curriculum changes graduates thought desirable. Method.- Study was based on student records and on objective questionnaire which was mailed to each of the 333 living individuals to secure additional data. …
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Intergenerational and Occupational Mobility
… friends affect the offspring’s educational and occupational choices. Second, the friend’s job is correlated to the parent’s job, in different ways at different income levels. Specifically, the richest and the poorest parents tend to have friends that are more similar to them than median parents. …
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Compromises in Career-Related Decisions: Hypothetical Choices, Individual Differences, and Actual Outcomes
… dimensions along which individuals consider occupational alternatives. However, because these dimensions naturally covary across occupations, it is difficult to make unequivocal statements about the relative importance of these dimensions. 194 college seniors (127 females, 44 males, 26 …
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Compromises in career-related decisions: Hypothetical choices, individual differences,and actual outcomes
… dimensions along which individuals consider occupational alternatives. However, because these dimensions naturally covary across occupations, it is difficult to make unequivocal statements about the relative importance of these dimensions. 194 college seniors (127 females, 44 males, 26 …
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