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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Underemployed"”.
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Task Analysis for a Food Processing Facility: A Social Enterprise for Persons from Underemployed Populations
<p>Social enterprises aim to be agents of recovery for consumers of mental health services but lack knowledge of how to accurately identify workplace supports, accommodations, and modifications that are appropriate for their clients. Graduate occupational therapy students were contacted to assist …
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Career Satisfaction/dissatisfaction in Professional Dual Career Couples: Psychological, Socioeconomic and Background Factors
… there are differences among Fully-Employed and Underemployed couples on Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction, (3) to identify what psychological, socioeconomic and background factors characterize professional dual career couples and spouses in different Employment Statuses and (4) to investigate …
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A Critical Analysis of a Paraprofessional Training Program: Teacher Aides Managing Their Journey to Self-Sufficiency
… all participants were either unemployed or underemployed. This qualitative research included case studies of five trainees who were identified as successful and distinguished graduates of the paraprofessional training program. Their journey of transitioning from the position of …
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Youth employability in ghetto neighbourhoods: The role of personal agency in reproducing or transforming social structures
… dropping out of school, remaining unemployed and underemployed as a result. By contrast, consistent mentoring from parents entails a culture that competes with the negative influence of gangs and enables resilience among youth to pursue tertiary education. Youth thereby transform, rather than …
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The economics of dual job holding
… The hours constraint model says that workers underemployed will seek a second job in order to fulfill the gap in their work schedule. Yet, some workers may decide to hold two jobs simply because each job has some peculiar characteristics that makes it appealing to the worker. I call this …
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Inequalities in Social Determinants of Health in the Ontario Transgender Population
… more trans individuals were underpaid and underemployed, unable to complete their post-secondary education, and had experienced food insecurity, social exclusion and unmet health care needs. Differences were largest comparing trans men to cisgender men of the same age distribution. Findings …
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Good Pandemic People: Citizenship and Ethical Striving During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ottawa, Ontario
… of CERB, a social program that targeted un- and underemployed Canadians, renewed public discourse about the purpose of welfare and how the program served as a technology of government that encouraged applicants to reflect on their receipt of the benefit.
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Expanding Interprofessional Learning Opportunities: How Dental Hygiene Administrators And Faculty Perceive Interprofessional Education
… today’s medical industry. Dental hygienists are underemployed in these teams. This has a direct effect on dental hygiene academia because education is the basis for practice. Interprofessional education (IPE) has been proposed as the strategy to adequately address this issue; however, many dental …
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Clerical Workers: Acquiring the Skills to Meet Tacit Process Expectations Within a Context of Work Undervaluation and Job Fragility
… It is apparent that clerical workers are underemployed along all measured conventional dimensions of underemployment, including credential, performance and subjective as well as work permanence, salary levels and job opportunities. Relational practice is a largely unexamined aspect of …
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Ties That Bind: The Informal Social Networks of Rural African-American Mobile -Home Park Families
… but not making full use of their skills (underemployed). Given their precarious financial situation, compounded with the economic reality of manufactured housing, this study seeks to understand whether being embedded in kin, church, and neighborhood networks provide access to sustained …
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Examining Relationships Between Problem-Solving Style and the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Leveraging Adaption-Innovation Theory to Support Autistic Adults in the Workplace
… 85% of autistic individuals are unemployed or underemployed, highlighting the need for workforce development and leadership training to support this marginalized group. While autism spectrum disorders have increased significantly since the early 2000s, limited research exists on supporting …
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Employment and Employability: The Experiences and Perceptions of Deaf Graduates
… experience more unemployment, are often underemployed and have lower incomes than the hearing population (MacLeod-Gallinger, 1992; RNID, 2006; The Papworth Trust, 2014). However, whilst there are increasing numbers of deaf students entering Higher Education (HESA 2014/15, 2013/14), there …
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Teachers Without Borders: Exploring Experiences, Transitions, and Identities of Refugee Women Teachers from Yugoslavia
… a skilled professional who often remains un- or underemployed in her new country. The dissertation makes an important contribution to an underdeveloped area in the research literature, and has the potential to inform immigration, settlement, and teacher education policies and practices in Canada …
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Development of a career exploration inventory (CEI)
… CEI using two separate norm groups: unemployed/underemployed adults (N=104) and employed adults (N=106) ranging in age from eighteen to seventy-three. Validity of the CEI was comparable to existing work and leisure interest inventories. Coefficient alpha internal consistency measures ranged from …
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Building the case for delivery of health promotion services within the Vocational Rehabilitation
… <p>People who are not employed or are underemployed cannot access health promotion services at the worksite. This is a significant barrier for people with physical disability because they experience lower rates of employment and higher rates of secondary health conditions than the …
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Building the case for delivery of health promotion services within the Vocational Rehabilitation
… <p>People who are not employed or are underemployed cannot access health promotion services at the worksite. This is a significant barrier for people with physical disability because they experience lower rates of employment and higher rates of secondary health conditions than the …
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Being and Becoming Public School Teachers: Career Mobility of Chinese Overseas-Trained Teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area
… permanent residents exist but are unemployed, underemployed, or working in other fields. To earn a local teaching credential, the immigrant bears the burden of proving equivalent knowledge and skills to re-enter her or his profession in the United States. At the time of this study, there was no …
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The implications of being an international medical graduate (IMG) in Canadian society : a qualitative study of foreign-trained physicians' resettlement, sense of identity and health status
… identity and attempts to regain it while being underemployed were connected with the multifaceted challenges of resettlement which created experiences of lowered selfesteem, and increased stress, anxiety and depression. They identified the re-licensing process (cost, time, energy, few residency …
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The impact of military lifestyle on the careers of military spouse educators : a phenomenological case study.
… spouses, on average, are overeducated and underemployed. This phenomenon is linked to unique military lifestyle factors, such as frequent relocation, and conceivably compounded by career-specific barriers, such as those often found in career fields like education. While substantial research …
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Identity Style, Acculturation Strategies and Employment Status Of Formally Educated Foreign-Born African Women In The United States
… to employment status, with one exception. The underemployed group of women may have been characterized by an identity orientation based on family and friends. If these women appear to experience problems associated with acculturation and identity, they may require more time to learn about the …
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