Education and Jobs : : Exploring the Gaps /

Education and Jobs : : Exploring the Gaps / / ed. by D. W. Livingstone.

What are the correlations between the education employees bring to their jobs, the education required to do those jobs, and the skills employees acquire while working on the job? Written as a sequel to the critically acclaimed The Education-Jobs Gap, Livingstone and contributors explore these questi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
HerausgeberIn:
Livingstone, D. W.,
MitwirkendeR:
Livingstone, D.W.,
Lordan, Meredith,
Officer, Sandria,
Pankhurst, K.V.,
Radsma, Marion,
Raykov, Milosh,
Weststar, Johanna,
Wilson, Olivia,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2009
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Graphs
  • Acknowledgements
  • Key Acronyms
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Prior Research Perspectives
  • Chapter One. Prior Concepts and Theories of the Relationship between Workers and Jobs
  • Chapter Two. Prior Empirical Research on Education-Job Matching
  • Chapter Three. Starting with The Education-Jobs Gap
  • Part Two. Surveying the Gaps
  • Chapter Four. Education and Jobs Survey Profile I: National Trends in Employment Conditions, Job Requirements,Workers' Learning and Matching, 1983-2004
  • Chapter Five. Education and Jobs Survey Profile II: Employment Conditions, Job Requirements, Workers' Learning and Matching, by Employee Class and Specific Occupational Group, 2004
  • Part Three. Exploring the Gaps: Case Studies
  • Chapter Six. Elements of an Integrated Theory of Work and Learning
  • Chapter Seven. Continual Learning, Autonomy, and Competency among High School Teachers
  • Chapter Eight. Staying Current in Computer Programming: The Importance of Informal Learning and Task Discretion in Maintaining Job Competence
  • Chapter Nine. Clerical Workers:Work and Learning in Fragmenting Workplaces
  • Chapter Ten. Auto Workers' Learning in Lean Production
  • Chapter Eleven. Struggling to Remain Employed: Learning Strategies of Workers with Disabilities and the Education-Job Match
  • Part Four. Conclusions
  • Chapter Twelve. The Relationship between Learning and Work: Empirical Evidence from the Case Studies
  • Chapter Thirteen. Education and Jobs: The Way Ahead
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • The Authors
  • Index

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