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Timofeyev, Yuriy – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper clarifies the social and economic effects of employment in the informal sector on the poor in Russia in recent years. The article describes the extent to which the figures for informal sector at large and unofficial employment in particular vary in different estimates and the effect they have on the average labor income of the poor. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor, Wages, Poverty
Wei Li; Tianran Ni; Yi Zhang; Daan Wang; Salvador Parrado – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to examine the effects of vocational training programs for people with disabilities on their income. Design/methodology/approach: It conducted a multinomial regression analysis of 10,469 survey responses from 31 provincial administrative areas in mainland China. Findings: It finds the following antecedents all influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Income, Compensation (Remuneration), Vocational Education
Nzepang, Fabrice; Atangana, Siméon Serge; Nguenda Anya, Saturnin Bertrand – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2023
Purpose: This work aims to assess the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on inequalities in access to professional training (PT) in Cameroon. Design/methodology/approach: This study used data from the fourth Cameroonian Household Survey (ECAM 4), the concentration index (CI) calculations and the Wagstaff et al. (2003)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Equal Education, Program Effectiveness
Demenge, Jonathan; Shrestha, Bibek – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2018
The High Impact Tourism Training (HITT) was a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme implemented by the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV). It targeted informal workers from the tourism sector, notably women and youth, unskilled and semi-skilled workers in seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia: among…
Descriptors: Tourism, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Program Implementation
Frolova, Ye. V.; Rogach, O. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2019
The article discusses the specific features characterizing the development of the market for commercial educational services under modern Russian conditions. The study finds that many parents have reacted negatively to the introduction of market forces to the education sector. Paid educational services provided by the school are not popular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Factors, Commercialization, Parent Attitudes
Congying Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Our next-generation engineers must be able to design technologies and create partnerships for broad applications that sustain the environment and protect human health. This dissertation reports on technologies and partnerships that support sustainable electronics by (1) improving the reliability of Sn-alloys in electronics by understanding the…
Descriptors: Electronics, Engineering Education, Recycling, Foreign Countries
Apunda, Edwinah Amondi; de Klerk, Helena M.; Ogina, Teresa – International Review of Education, 2017
Custom tailors working in the informal sector in Nairobi, Kenya, mainly acquire technical skills through undertaking traditional apprenticeships (TAs). However, most of these tailors are semi-skilled, produce low-quality products and are often poorer than their formally trained counterparts. This qualitative case study explores the aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Needle Trades, Semiskilled Workers, Apprenticeships
Salmon-Letelier, Marlana; Russell, S. Garnett – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2022
Human rights education (HRE) is an emerging practice across formal and informal educational sectors worldwide. However, most literature and theory on HRE emphasize the importance of imparting knowledge about human rights. In this paper, we argue that increasing tolerance among students is a vital but understudied aspect of HRE. This paper is based…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Civil Rights, Social Change, Prosocial Behavior
Das, Ujjaini – Qualitative Research Journal, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to review some of the existing gaps in the third-generation of critical environmental justice (EJ) research and then propose promising combinations of theoretical concepts by adjoining (EJ) literature with other bodies of work with the use of qualitative research methods. Design/methodology/approach: This paper…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Justice, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology
Tran, Thi Tuyet – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
Literature suggests that educational attainment is one of the significant factors affecting youth transition to work. The process of capital accumulation through education is suggested as the key marker of social inclusion and exclusion. This paper compares the educational attainment among youth in Vietnam with their status in employment. It uses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Comparative Analysis
OECD Publishing, 2019
Half a million higher education graduates enter the labour market every year in Mexico. While their labour market outcomes are considerably better on average than those of upper secondary education graduates, some higher education graduates face periods of inactivity and unemployment. Many graduates who find work end up being over-qualified or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Labor Market, College Graduates
Evans Reding, Tracie; VanWyngaarden, Kristin – Metropolitan Universities, 2020
Complex problems are being approached through collaborations that cross sectors including businesses, nonprofits, public institutions, and academia. Social Network Analysis (SNA) methods have been adopted to help manage these large collaborations, and it is useful not only for exploring the network dynamics of the collaboration as a whole, but…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Urban Universities, Institutional Cooperation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Gerxhani, Klarita – Social Indicators Research, 2011
This paper examines the relationship between working in the formal or informal sector and self-reported individual financial satisfaction in a country in transition. It does so by allowing for individual heterogeneity in terms of perceived financial insecurity and tax morale. The empirical analysis uses a dataset for Albania, a country in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Security (Psychology), Labor Market, Social Indicators
Neal, Terry – Commonwealth of Learning, 2020
A recent International Labour Organisation (ILO) report noted that nearly half a billion people -- one in six of the world's working population -- did not have enough work, were looking for but unable to find work, or had given up looking for work. Women and youth were over-represented in this group. Since then, due to COVID-19, the numbers of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, COVID-19, Blended Learning, Online Courses
Agyemang, Franklin Gyamfi; Boateng, Henry – Education & Training, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the factors affecting tacit knowledge transfer from a master to an apprentice in the informal sector among hairdressers in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: A case study was used as the research design. Convenient sampling technique was used to select 47 master hairdressers. Semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Apprenticeships, Barriers