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2. The Young Worker and the Law: A Guide for l4-18 Year Olds.
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Pontiac City School District, MI. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. and Davidson, Sandra
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This guide was developed for young people who are employed or who are seeking employment. Written in an informal, easy-to-read style, it provides steps in obtaining employment and explains young people's rights and responsibilities as beginning employees. The contents provide information about social security requirements, work permits, wages, taxes, insurance, working hours, hazardous occupations, cooperative education, and work study. Sample work application and letter forms are also included along with a glossary of helpful terms. (NJ)
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- 2024
3. Strengthening 'Soft' Skills for Workforce Success: Learning from the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Summer Youth Employment Program Evaluation
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MDRC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Sarah Salimi, and Ivonne Garcia
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. began a learning and evaluation practice of its summer youth employment program (SYEP) portfolio in 2022. At the time, the organization was providing grant support to 27 organizations that offer summer work-readiness training to young people between the ages of 14 and 24, including social service agencies, community-based organizations, and economic development agencies. JPMorgan Chase partnered with MDRC to promote continual improvement among these organizations through research. MDRC collected data in the form of interviews and metrics aggregated from nearly all providers. Afterward, MDRC invited 10 providers to share specific insights about a particular program component--soft-skills training. ("Soft skills" refer to the general habits and competencies that make for an effective employee, such as arriving at work on time, cooperating with coworkers, taking and giving direction, communicating clearly, dressing appropriately for the workplace, and so forth.) These providers were selected for such reasons as tenure in the field, depth of training reported in previous interviews and surveys, and responsiveness to MDRC's email outreach. Six SYEP providers responded to the invitation and are highlighted in this brief. The brief begins with an overview of the literature on the labor market value of soft skills, before explaining a particular type of labor market-advancement strategy: SYEPs. The brief then addresses how soft-skills training can be embedded successfully into the SYEP model and concludes with recommendations for the field. Ultimately, the findings presented in this brief are intended to showcase ways that soft-skills training, as a workforce development intervention, can put young people on the path to high-paying jobs and socioeconomic advancement.
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- 2024
4. Making Summer Count: Youths' Perceptions of Meaningfulness and Future Orientation in Summer Youth Employment Contexts
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Denise Jones, Zaida Pearson, Deanna C. E. Sinex, Jeremiah Nash, Aiwen Chen, and Dennis F. Jones
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The current study explores the efforts of one summer youth employment program to provide students with meaningful work experiences and the participants' perceptions of the meaningfulness of their work and its effect on their future orientation. Most of the students in the study were under the age of 18. The Youth Enrichment Services (YES) Summer Learn and Earn program provides students with summer enrichment, their first work experience, and meaningful opportunities to engage with work. The purpose of this study was to better understand YES participants' perceptions of the meaningfulness of their summer work experiences. A secondary goal was to investigate how participants' work experiences related to their future orientations. YES is a community-based organization in Pittsburgh that gives socially and economically disadvantaged youth opportunities to achieve success through its academic enrichment, alternative to detention, peer mentor certification, life skills, cultural enrichment, diversity awareness, workforce readiness, and wellness-based programming.
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- 2024
5. Impact of COVID-19 on the Employment of Transition-Age Military-Dependent or Connected Autistic Youth
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Holly Whittenburg, Jennifer McDonough, Carol Schall, Thomas Dubois, Vivian Vitullo, and Paul Wehman
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Research is needed that describes how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the employment of autistic youth. In this mixed-methods study, we present data on three cohorts of military-connected/dependent youth on the autism spectrum participating in a randomized, waitlist-controlled trial of Project SEARCH + ASD Supports to describe the potential effects of COVID-19 on employment. We also present three participant case studies to highlight challenges and opportunities faced during the transition process. Findings indicate the pandemic appeared to affect the 2019-2020 cohort most negatively, with employment outcomes lagging the previous cohorts by 29.1% to 48.2%. However, the case studies highlight approaches that effectively supported participants, including interagency collaboration, military and federal partnerships, skilled employment specialist support, and family involvement.
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- 2024
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6. Manage and Make Productive: The New Zealand National Party's Social Investment Policy
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Margaret Stuart
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New Zealand National Party's 2022-2023 policy of Social Investment, which if adopted, will legitimise the management of young unemployed in the name of correcting and helping them. Zygmunt Bauman's (1989) concept of 'rational bureaucratic culture' is used to examine the aims to bring the 'abnormal' citizen into the tax-paying fold. The policy will 'manage and make productive' young welfare recipients to avoid them 'bludging' and encourage them into 'productive work', no matter how menial. Using philanthropic monies alongside funding through Vote : Social Development is a new development which removes the state's sole financing of its safety-net responsibility. It will see a new interpretation of Principal: Agency policy.
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- 2024
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7. Centering Youth Voices and Equity in a National Youth Subsidized Employment Program
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Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and Tran, Kathy
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This brief examines the challenges youth face in the current job market and proposes recommendations for a national subsidized employment program that prioritizes equity and amplifies youth voices. The insights provided in this brief are informed by several listening sessions with members of the Communities Collaborating to Reconnect Youth Network (CCRY). CCRY is a national learning community that brings together leaders from different youth workforce systems who focus on reconnecting youth with education and career pathways. Drawing insights from the CCRY Network, this brief provides recommendations on how decisionmakers can center youth voice and equity in the policy development and program design for a scaled-up national youth subsidized employment program.
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- 2023
8. Entry and Retention in the Labour Market: Narratives and Solutions for NEET and Care Leaver Employment Support
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Education Development Trust (United Kingdom), Foulkes, Henry, Winnard, Madeleine, and Farnhill-Bain, Jack
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What are the barriers to employment for young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) or who have experience of care? What works best to support them? In partnership with the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA), our latest report draws conclusions from a survey of practitioners and young people to understand the barriers they face, what services are offered, and what is considered to work best in helping NEET young people--and especially care leavers--to progress into work. More than one in ten young people in the UK between the ages of 16 and 24 are classified as not in employment, education or training (NEET), and the rate of young people being NEET has not fallen below 10% over the last twenty years. We know that being NEET can have immediate negative consequences for a young person, such as decreasing levels of self-esteem, increasing the likelihood of engaging in risky behaviours such as substance misuse and criminal activities, and increasing their chances of living in poverty. While there has been much research into the factors that lead to becoming NEET, how these can be mitigated, and the impacts of being NEET, there is not the same body of evidence to inform the support provided to young people to move into and stay in education, employment and training (EET). This study looks at what the existing research has to say and surveys young people and the practitioners who work with them on four key questions: (1) What are the key barriers to EET for young people and care leavers who are NEET?; (2) What is currently offered to young people and care leavers in terms of entry to EET support?; (3) What is currently offered in terms of in-work support for young people and care leavers?; and (4) What types of provision are most effective at dealing with the barriers young people face to EET? Drawing out lessons for practitioners and policymakers, this study contributes to our understanding of what young people see as the issues, the support they need and what service providers are offering to some of the most vulnerable people in society. [This report was produced with the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA).]
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- 2023
9. Exploring Summer Youth Employment Programs: Increasing Access through Career Pathways
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Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work and Education Strategy Group (ESG)
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Exploring Summer Youth Employment Programs: Increasing Access Through Career Pathways builds the case and provides actionable recommendations for state-led support in the intentional alignment of summer youth employment programs (SYEP) with career pathways and the work-based learning continuum, including through Career Technical Education (CTE). This tool was produced through JPMorgan Chase's "New Skills ready network," a five year, $35 million initiative aimed at developing equitable career pathways and policy recommendations that give underserved students access to higher education and real-world work experiences that lead to high-wage, in-demand jobs.
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- 2023
10. Sub-Saharan Africa's Higher Education: Investment Decisions on Human Capital in the Presence of Youth Unemployment
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Issofou Njifen
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamic relationship between unemployment and higher education participation. By using panel data covering 40 sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2020, we opt to use a well-developed dynamic panel generalized method of moments estimator. The findings show that the youth unemployment rate has an inverse relationship with higher education enrollment in SSA and more specifically in countries with a low level of human development, independently of gender considerations. However, youth unemployment has a positive but not significant effect on enrollment in the medium-/high-level countries. They also show that youth unemployment positively relates to students' dropping out. These results imply that improvement is possible in the higher education sector if policymakers would consistently target lower unemployment rates.
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- 2024
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11. Employment and Youth with Foster Care Experience: Understanding Barriers and Supporting Success
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Children Now, Fung, Sara, Haspel, Jessica, Kniffen, Susanna, and Wondra, Danielle
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Employment is foundational to young people's successful transition into adulthood, yet many youth with lived experience in the foster care system struggle to obtain employment that provides a living wage. Youth with foster care experience typically do not have the same contacts and connections to employment opportunities as youth who have not been in foster care and cannot rely on the economic support of their family. In addition, transition age youth currently or formerly in foster care are more likely to be unemployed than their peers, and when employed, they typically earn less than their peers. Therefore, transition age youth with foster care experience need additional supports and resources to secure and maintain employment during their transition into adulthood. In this report, the authors highlight recent data on employment for youth with foster care experience. They identify ongoing challenges that youth with foster care experience face in participating in workforce readiness training, and finding and maintaining employment that pays a living wage. Additionally, they highlight a few existing supports for current and former foster youth. Finally, they provide policy recommendations and perspectives from youth to help their peers overcome these challenges and thrive in their careers. [Additional support for this report was provided by additional Maya Kamath, Nima Rahni, and Ted Lempert.]
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- 2022
12. Funding Streams for Opportunity Youth
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Green, Jimmy, Donovan, Brittney, and Palius, Marjory
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The Newark Opportunity Youth Network (NOYN) contracted with the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the youth workforce development system within the state. The study documents how the youth workforce system developed in New Jersey since the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) took effect, how it currently functions, and the financial and systemic realities that historically have been an impediment to a more collaborative approach. An unfortunate truth is that sometimes state legislatures design policies that, perhaps unintentionally, inhibit a community's ability to achieve collective impact through leveraging multiple resources. Compliance-driven funding models that limit a program's ability to connect with other programs to expand the impact, or disconnected public agencies that allocate funds and operate programs, to name a few, create obstacles to achieving collective impact. This research aims to provide stakeholders, including direct service providers and policymakers, with the tools to navigate these obstacles to better serve young people in New Jersey. The literature available around youth workforce development specifically in New Jersey is sparse, so to complement the literature review, researchers conducted in-depth interviews with local and national experts in youth workforce development. For those who advocate on behalf of the population of opportunity or alternative youth, the question demanding an answer is what can and should be done to improve the system of youth workforce development to better serve disconnected youth? This study begins to respond to that question. [This report was produced with the Newark Opportunity Youth Network (NOYN), with funding from the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions.]
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- 2022
13. Beyond College for All: Portrait of Rapid and Successful School-to-Work Transitions among Vulnerable Youth
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Thouin, Éliane, Dupéré, Véronique, Denault, Anne-Sophie, and Schoon, Ingrid
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For noncollege-bound youth, swiftly finding a satisfying job upon exiting compulsory schooling might support adjustment. Yet, youths' own job perceptions have rarely been considered in school-to-work transition research. Sequence analysis of monthly occupational status over 4 years (ages 16-20) in a low socioeconomic status Canadian sample overrepresenting academically-vulnerable youth (N = 386; 50% male; 23% visible minority) generated five school-to-work pathways: two work-bound ones with jobs perceived as aligned with career goals ("Career Job," 10%) or not ("Fill-In Job," 26%), alongside three others ("Disconnected" [15%], "Prolonged Secondary Education" [25%], "Postsecondary Education" [24%]). Mental health was strongest in the "Career Job" pathway. Male sex and adolescent employment were precursors to this advantageous pathway, underscoring the crucial role of work experience.
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- 2023
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14. Texas Policies for Reconnecting Opportunity Youth in Back on Track Pathways
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JFF (Jobs for the Future), Allen, Lili, Almeida, Cheryl, Gregg, Aundrea, and Sack, Mike
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Texas has long been an innovator in policies, systems, and practices to ensure that young adults from low-income backgrounds are prepared for postsecondary education and careers. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis have cast a harsh light on the importance of reengaging young adults who are disconnected from school and work and putting them on a path to success. This population, known as "opportunity youth," is so named based on the promise they hold for society as a whole and for themselves and their families. Their numbers grew dramatically in 2020, and that rise calls for bold action. This paper provides a starting point for movement on Texas state policies that can be built upon, strengthened, and/or implemented. Jobs for the Future brings its evidence-based Back on Track model to this work, helping schools and programs implement proven practices to boost the success of opportunity youth. Evaluations have shown strong evidence that Back on Track improves postsecondary enrollment and completion by opportunity youth.
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- 2021
15. A Demographic and Qualitative Analysis of the Determinants of Success in a National Supported Employment Project
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Vigna, Elisa, Beyer, Stephen, and Meek, Andrea
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Background: People with an intellectual disability and/or autism experience low employment rates compared to the general population. This study shows what the determinants of success are in getting this group of young people into paid employment. Method: The research is based on data collected on 1008 young people, aged 16-25, participating in the Engage to Change project across Wales, to support young people to achieve employment. A real-time data collection system was used from their engagement and throughout their journey to employment. Results: This research indicates an overall employment rate of 23% for the project to date, based on total referral. Young people who engaged in 'significant work experience', such as paid placement or supported internship, had a greater employment rate of 37%. Conclusion: Previous and current real work experiences increased the chances of young people of becoming employed, above the effect of supported employment and job coach support.
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- 2023
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16. Education Deserts in North Carolina: An Analysis of Geographic Disparities and University Access
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Stowe, Kristin and Warren, Matthew
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Much research on access to the higher education system overlooks the importance of a base factor: place. An 'education desert' is defined as an area in which residents are separated from the higher education system by geography and structural factors. This study employs a granular approach to locate education deserts within the state of North Carolina, and analyze the condition of higher education access across the state. By delineating the state into Census tracts (n=2184), the analysis draws more specific boundaries around deserts than did previous researchers. The analysis then goes beyond the binary classification of desert or non-desert, and ranks each census tract's access to the higher education system on a five-point scale. The data shows that approximately one-quarter of the state's population lives in an education desert. Various socioeconomic indicators, such as median household income and the rate of disconnected youth, are found to be significantly correlated with a census tract's access to the higher education system. Distance learning seems to be an apt solution; however, residents of higher education deserts have low rates of internet access, making online education impractical. Policy makers should recognize that gaps in access to higher education, and the subsequent benefits from a degree, have roots in geography and in infrastructure.
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- 2021
17. Demographic and Transition Service Predictors of Employment Outcomes for Youth Receiving Supplemental Security Income
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Hartman, Ellie C., Jones, Weneaka, Friefeld Kesselmayer, Rachel, Brinck, Emily A., Trainor, Audrey A., Reinhard, Alicia, Fuller, Rita K., Schlegelmilch, Amanda, and Anderson, Catherine A.
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Racially and ethnically diverse youth with disabilities receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits were randomly assigned to usual services, including available school and vocational rehabilitation (VR) transition services, or enhanced case management and transition services through the Wisconsin Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE) federal demonstration grant. A hierarchical logistic regression analysis demonstrated increased age, being African American, having a psychiatric disability, and transition services predicted higher youth employment rates. However, enhanced PROMISE transition services were no longer significant in the presence of VR services, suggesting the effect of enhanced services was mediated by increasing engagement in VR. Limitations and implications are discussed regarding the relationship between school and state VR transition services and postsecondary competitive integrated employment outcomes.
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- 2021
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18. States and School Systems Can Act Now to Dismantle Silos between High School, College, and Career
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Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), Heyward, Georgia, McCann, Sarah, and Gross, Betheny
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought on an employment crisis alongside falling college enrollment rates, which reached historic lows at two-year institutions. Would these twin crises provide the motivation and opportunity that states, education institutions, and employers needed to make meaningful progress toward a more flexible and integrated learning system? To find out, we interviewed 31 K-12, state, and nonprofit leaders who have been focused on redesigning education and career pathways. We asked them how their work has changed in the last year and what their priorities are as the nation emerges from the pandemic. In these conversations, we learned about efforts to coordinate education and workforce systems that have too long been disconnected: (1) As schools and workplaces went online, states built virtual college and career counseling tools that were accessible to anyone with an internet connection--not just students currently enrolled in K-12 or higher education institutions; (2) The pandemic brought on widespread experimentation with the five-day school schedule, new familiarity with virtual learning models, and a desire to wait on attending college. This created opportunities to innovate on how learners connect with industry during and beyond high school; (3) Postsecondary institutions and states have demonstrated renewed interest in microcredentials to help people rapidly enter or re-enter the workforce. While we saw higher education and industry make significant strides to align and collaborate, we saw few innovations initiated by K-12 systems. We offer four ways states can engage K-12: (1) Invest in virtual platforms that support college and career navigation; (2) Incentivize bold experimentation with hybrid learning to design new models that blend school and workplace learning or connect with postsecondary microcredentials; (3) Step in to encourage and regulate high-quality, postsecondary microcredentials that stack toward associate and bachelor degrees; and (4) Combine policy with technical assistance to help districts credit out-of-school learning.
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- 2021
19. Relationships Matter: The Role Transition Specialists Play in Youth's Reentry from the Juvenile Justice System
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Sinclair, James, Unruh, Deanne, and Kelly, Kim
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Increasing engagement to school, employment, and community are strong predictors of reducing recidivism for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. This study examined what occurs at reentry upon leaving a youth correctional setting. This study comprised of qualitative semi-structured interviews of transition specialists (TSs; n = 7) and young offenders (n = 8) who participated in a 4-year reentry project in the Pacific Northwest. A total of 21 (13 TS and eight youth) interviews were thematically coded. Findings from this study included the important role of the TS in supporting a youth's school, family, and community reentry. Key themes are described around the services to support employment, school engagement, and independent living during a youth's reentry into a school setting.
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- 2021
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20. The State of Youth Employment: Navigating the World of Work during COVID-19. The YES Project
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America's Promise Alliance, Center for Promise, Flanagan, Sean K., Margolius, Max, Lynch, Alicia Doyle, and Hynes, Michelle
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The State of Youth Employment is the second segment of a research series focused on understanding the experiences, assets, and conditions that shape young people's career development. Finding a Way Forward--a 2020 exploratory study based on interviews with young people across the country--yielded several findings about how young people experience entry to and growth within the world of work. Insights included how young people conceptualized becoming ready for work, the connections and support that facilitate their professional development, and the inseparable relationships between their professional and personal lives. The State of Youth Employment builds upon that qualitative study to explore the state of young people within the workforce in this current moment in history. This publication aims to elevate young people's work and career experiences over the past year to inform youth-centered policy, practice, and economic recovery efforts moving forward. [For "Finding a Way Forward: Young People's Experiences Navigating the World of Work," see ED610277.]
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- 2021
21. Learning Losses Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Significant Threat to Economic Development
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Kasradze, Tea and Zarnadze, Nino
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Numerous studies show that there is a positive correlation between education and the economic development of the country. Strong education systems have a positive impact not only on the success of individuals but also on the economy of the entire country. Graduates equipped with the skills required by the labor market can easily find a place in this market. Knowledge and skills relevant to market demand increase productivity have a positive impact on economic growth and development. Unfortunately, COVID Pandemic has severely damaged the education systems. Governments, scientists, and experts provide us with statistical information daily around the world about both the slowdown in economic growth as a whole and the problems of individual sectors of the economy. These are the problems and numbers that are already visible and it can be said that the losses are easily measurable. However, the damage caused to the economy by education systems affected by the pandemic will be felt by countries and humanity years later, nor will it be easy to calculate. The problem is even more difficult in poor and developing countries. This paper aims to study the impact of the COVID Pandemic on the education system and economy in Georgia. The research examines the reports and studies of various international organizations, analyzing the secondary data obtained from them. Local policy documents, government reports and regulations, and papers of different researchers have also been studied, conclusions have been made and relevant recommendations have been developed.
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- 2021
22. Strategies for Workforce Recovery in Response to the Current Crisis: A Resource for Local Leaders
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Urban Institute, Loprest, Pamela, Spaulding, Shayne, and Hecker, Ian
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This resource outlines a menu of actionable strategies for local leaders for workforce-related recovery efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding recession. These strategies focus on evidence-based interventions and approaches which promote inclusive recovery. We categorize these strategies by goal, type of action, and phase of pandemic reopening so local leaders can choose options best suited for their current circumstances. For each strategy we provide a description, supporting evidence, specific actions for local leaders, and useful examples and resources.
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- 2020
23. Toward a Vision of Quality Summer Employment for All Youth
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Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and Tieszen, Noel
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For decades, Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) have provided income, career exposure, and real-life work experience for thousands of young people across the United States. Yet year after year, youth and community leaders report that there are not enough summer jobs to go around. Some cities pressure underfunded SYEPs to serve all youth who apply, while others hold lotteries to dole out limited slots. Ultimately, hundreds of thousands of youth find themselves unemployed every summer. Recent interviews with SYEP funders, providers, advocates, and participants in 6 U.S. cities explored what it would take to guarantee a high-quality summer job to all youth. Among the insights that emerged, one theme became clear: Young people want more than a summer job; they want career-focused work experience that is worth their time and responsive to their day-to-day realities. This document outlines strategies suggested during stakeholder interviews. Far from a framework or checklist, these considerations should serve as conversation starters to help communities think beyond SYEP as we know it and propose SYEP as it could be.
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- 2022
24. School's Out: How Summer Youth Employment Programs Impact Academic Outcomes
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Modestino, Alicia Sasser and Paulsen, Richard
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Recently there has been an emphasis on how time spent outside of the classroom can affect student outcomes, including high school graduation, with the hope of closing academic achievement gaps along socioeconomic and racial lines. This paper provides experimental evidence regarding a particular type of out-of-school activity--early work experience--on high school academic outcomes for low-income inner-city youth. Using randomized admissions lotteries for students who applied to the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), we estimate the effect of being selected to participate on academic outcomes as measured by administrative school records. We find that SYEP lottery winners are 4.4 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school on time and 2.5 percentage points less likely to drop out of high school during the four years after participating in the program relative to the control group. These improvements appear to be driven by better attendance and course performance in the year after being selected for the program, with the program's impact on attendance persisting into the second year. Survey data suggest that the Boston SYEP may affect academic outcomes by increasing aspirations to attend college, gaining basic work habits, and improving social skills during the summer.
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- 2023
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25. Adolescent Employment and Postsecondary Education among Latino Children of Immigrants
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Cano, Manuel, Calvo, Rocío, and Chu, Yoosun
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This study examined the connection between adolescent employment and future participation in postsecondary education in a sample of U.S. Latino high school juniors/seniors (n = 2164) from the 1992-2002 Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. Employed and non-employed Latino adolescents did not markedly differ in academic performance, ability, or expectations, suggesting that, for U.S. Latino adolescents, employment may depend on the degree of constraint imposed by social and economic statuses. Results of multilevel binomial logistic regression suggest plausible sources of educational disparities and reveal that high-intensity work during high school may be a source of educational disadvantage for Latino children.
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- 2023
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26. Guaranteeing Positive Destinations for Youth in a Danish Municipality: The Transfer, Translation, and Transformation of a Policy Instrument
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Friche, Nanna, Enemark, Nanna Ramsing, and Ydesen, Christian
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In 2019, Hjørring Municipality launched a comprehensive Youth Guarantee programme to ensure 'positive destinations' for the municipality's youth. The strategy was explicitly inspired by Edinburgh's interpretation of the Scottish Youth Guarantee. In this article, we conceptualize the Youth Guarantee as a policy instrument and unpack the transfer, translation, and transformation from the initial coincidental inspiration to the policy instrument developing a 'life of its own'. The instrument serves as a vehicle for creating a constituency centred on a value-based governing paradigm, alliances, and the enthusiastic spread of the Youth Guarantee spirit. The case serves as an example of how the transfer, translation, and transformation processes of a policy instrument into a foreign legal context can play out, as well as how dominating forms of governance centred on values, alliances, and common enthusiasm in the constituency -- and even the contours of a governance paradigm -- can be teased out through such an endeavour.
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- 2023
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27. The Impact of COVID-19 on Young People's Employability: The Potential of Sport-Based Interventions as Non-Formal Education
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Haydn Morgan, Harry Bowles, and Anthony Bush
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The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected young people in relation to their mental health, educational provision, and social development, impacting their employment prospects and future prosperity. In response, the United Kingdom government implemented a range of formal policy solutions to address issues around youth employability. However, studies are yet to examine how non-formal or alternative educational approaches, such as sport and physical activity interventions, can be used intentionally to enhance employability and tackle the youth employment challenges brought about by the pandemic. This article draws upon interviews with 20 organisations working within the sport and youth employability sector to provide insight into employment issues that have been created or exacerbated by COVID-19 and outlines how sport-based interventions might help to address these challenges. Findings demonstrate that the intentional use of sport and physical activity offers an attractive means to (re-)engage young people with employability programmes and support their preparedness for work, especially those furthest from an employment destination. The article also highlights how sport-based interventions can generate broader social impact, to address young people's social and emotional difficulties, rebuild their confidence, and re-connect them with formal systems of education and training that many had become dislocated from during the pandemic.
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- 2023
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28. Exploratory Factor Analysis of Congolese Information Technology Graduates' Employability: Towards Sustainable Employment
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Mpia Héritier Nsenge, Mburu Lucy Waruguru, and Mwendia Simon Nyaga
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High unemployment rates in many developing countries have prompted research to focus on sustainability and inclusiveness of employment in line with the sustainable development goal target 8.6. The democratic republic of Congo (DRC) in sub-Saharan Africa experiences one of the highest youth unemployment rates owing to its long-term socio-political and economic instability. Qualitative and quantitative research studies have linked low employability of university-educated youth in the DRC to tribalism, corruption, and insecurity. The current study sought to identify contextual factors that predict employability of information technology (IT) graduates in the DRC. The study surveyed 355 graduates (274 male, 81 female) using 43 questionnaire. Bartlett test was 3,930.05 for Chi[superscript 2] (p-value = 0.000) and KMO test scored 0.68. McDonald's Omega test of reliability of the instrument scored 0.77 with a total cumulative variance of 72.02%. Results of this study advance the conflict theory by pinpointing the true factors which influence the employability of IT graduates in unstable developing countries. This study has discovered that socio-political background of graduates, graduate academic competencies, graduate-employer relationship, and university employability strategies are the contextual factors that predict the employability of IT graduates in the DRC. The Cronbach's Alpha test of reliability for the retained contextual factors scored 0.78, 0.75, 0.63, and 0.53, respectively.
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- 2023
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29. An Educational Framework in Digital Rights and Responsibilities for Young Entrepreneurs
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María-Jesús Gallego-Arrufat, Norma Torres-Hernández, Inmaculada García-Martínez, and Soledad Domene-Martos
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A strong link currently exists between entrepreneurship and use of technology and the Internet, primarily because young people increasingly use digital and online strategies to start and develop entrepreneurial initiatives. The goal of this document analysis is to propose a reference framework for digital rights in youth entrepreneurship based on selection and analysis of 20 documents with legislation, regulations, and reports that focus on guaranteeing safe, responsible digital environments. The study resulted in a framework for connecting digital rights and responsibilities with young entrepreneurs, based on three main points: rights to equality and participation; rights to freedom; and rights to development, creation, and sustainability. In addition to including concepts, practices, and applications in young people's initiatives, the framework is useful for educating young entrepreneurs, guiding future research, and helping public administrations to promote the guarantee of digital rights and responsibilities for all.
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- 2023
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30. The Role of the Welfare State for NEETs: Exploring the Association between Public Social Spending and NEET in European Countries
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Minjong Youn and Chungseo Kang
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This study explores the role of the welfare state in reducing young people not being in education, employment, or training (NEET)s across 15 European countries. Using data from the Survey of Adult Skills in the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in combination with the Social Expenditure Database, we conducted cross-national analysis to reveal whether the increase in public social spending moderates the risk of being NEET at a young adult age, especially for socially disadvantaged young people. Our results highlighted that the rise of one percentage point of public social spending per gross domestic product, including social expenditure on education, active labor market, and unemployment, is significantly associated with decreasing the odds of being NEET. Furthermore, these social expenditures appeared to lower the NEET risk given socially disadvantaged backgrounds suggesting that young people with low educational levels, whose parents have low educational attainment levels, non-immigrant families, and females are likely to benefit given the robust social protection system. These findings suggest that public social spending may be an effective investment in promoting the social involvement of young people from socially disadvantaged background.
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31. The Role of Competency in Curbing Youth Unemployment: Competency-Based Curriculum Approach
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Ruth, Cheptoo
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Educational reforms have been changing as each nation strives to improve its citizens through the implementation of a curriculum that provides acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes that will promote standard performance on the job. East Africa nations for a long time have implemented content-based curriculum which was criticized in preparing graduates who do not satisfy the employability trends, job market demands, and 21st-century skills on outsourcing skillful human power resource. Currently, many Africa nations have adopted a Competency-based curriculum as an education system to drive solutions to the attainment of the populace with the desired competency for job market performance. CBC emphasizes the achievement of competence among learners. This paper discussion has dwelled on aspects of CBC, the concept of competency, the role of the teacher in CBC to develop competency, and the importance of competency in the job market. The clear conclusion attests that education should emphasize the development of competence among graduates to curb unemployment in the Africa Nations.
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- 2020
32. Listen to Us: Responses from Youth with Disabilities during the Youth Voices Community Forum
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Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), Shaewitz, Dahlia, Manriquez, Gabriela, Bradley, C'alra, DeLong, Erika, Hagins, Jason, Lovett, Hovis, Olivarez, Fernando, and Saunders, James
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Youth with disabilities face barriers to success that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic of racism that has generated protests in support of Black Lives Matter. The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) reached out to a group of youth and young adults with disabilities to share their most pressing concerns and to share their advice to service providers and other adults about how to support them. Young people shared that the major barriers they are facing during the pandemic are: (1) accessing technology; (2) participating in school; (3) access to jobs; (4) dealing with mental health concerns; (5) access to basic needs for their families; and (6) obtaining health care. With these barriers in mind, IEL designed a community forum that put youth voices at the center of the conversation. Youth with disabilities including youth of color led the conversation about the current pandemic and how it is affecting them, their families, and their communities. On May 28, 2020, IEL invited more than 200 participants to join in-depth discussions about the main topics identified by youth to discuss the strategies, effective practices, and resources. Many more people wanted to participate in this session, so IEL has captured the major themes from the Youth Voices Community Forum. IEL is pleased to share this report with the field to better understand what youth with disabilities are facing and how best to support them. Several of the youth co-authored this report, providing quality reviews of the summaries and offering clarification of ideas. This report includes notes from the general session, each breakout session, and a list of resources shared by topic area among participants. Links to resources are provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only.
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33. Increasing Digital Platform Use to Help Youth Find Work. Policy Brief. RTI Press Publication PB-0023-2005
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RTI International, Johnson, Eric M., Lehoahoa, Edwin, Shaw, Patrick, and Urquhart, Rob
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Young people face myriad obstacles in finding work, and more than 71 million are unemployed globally. Many of these youth have limited job search skills, poor labor market information, and difficulty accessing jobs, obstacles more pronounced for marginalized youth and first-time work-seekers. Digital professional platforms may give some youth a more effective way to find work than traditional job search strategies. In this brief, the authors explore digital professional platform use in developing economies. They then present evidence on low-cost ways to teach youth to use these platforms. The authors end by drawing policy implications for the education and workforce development field.
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34. Preparing Opportunity Youth for the Future of Work
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Jobs for the Future
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The future of work--resulting from fast- paced changes in technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and fluctuations in the way we perform work--will create economic growth and new jobs across the country, but only for communities that are prepared and for workers with the necessary skills. This report outlines Jobs for the Future's policy recommendations to prepare opportunity youth to meet the challenges the changing nature of work poses.
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35. Comparative Analysis of Students' Perceived Agripreneurship Competencies and Likelihood to Become Agripreneurs Depending on Learning Approach: A Report from Uganda
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Mukembo, Stephen C., Edwards, M. Craig, and Robinson, J. Shane
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Ensuring food security for a growing populace amidst an aging farmer population together with a decline in youth engagement in agriculture remains a global challenge. This is more distressing for developing countries, such as Uganda, that rely on subsistence farming to meet their food production demands, including job-creation for at least 75% of their populations. Therefore, the need exists to interest young people to lead innovative enterprises as agripreneurs to overcome poverty, food insecurity, and youth unemployment. A quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group design was used in this study. The findings indicate that a statistically significant (p < 0.01) main effect existed between groups for perceived agripreneurship competencies depending on the instructional approach. Students in the treatment group had higher adjusted marginal mean scores for perceived agripreneurship competencies than members of the counterfactual group, which implied they benefited from a project-based learning approach. However, because the females had lower agripreneurial intentions than males regardless of group, additional research is needed on how to engage and inspire females to pursue agripreneurial ventures, i.e., increase their intentions, if doing such would improve the individuals' economic livelihoods.
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36. Youth Transitions: Creating Pathways to Success
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Education Development Trust (United Kingdom), Hughes, Deirdre, and Smith, Graeme
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Around the world, young people face considerable challenges. Even before the disruption of the Covid-19 crisis, policymakers were seeking to respond to rapid technological advances, climate change and -- in some countries -- an ageing population and workforce. While children and young people worldwide generally have high aspirations and ambitions for their futures, evidence shows that they often face problematic and protracted transitions into work. In this context, new pathways from school to employment are needed. In this paper, we review extensive evidence to provide guidance on how children and young people can be best prepared to succeed in their school-to-work transitions, both now and in the future.
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37. Finding a Way Forward: Young People's Experiences Navigating the World of Work. Executive Summary
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America's Promise Alliance, Center for Promise, Flanagan, Sean K., Margolius, Max, Ismail, Bushra, Hynes, Michelle, and Pufall Jones, Elizabeth
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This is the executive summary for the report, "Finding a Way Forward: Young People's Experiences Navigating the World of Work." It presents findings from a new qualitative study that explores specific questions about work and careers from the perspectives of 65 young adult participants in five career pathways programs across the country. This qualitative report provides a glimpse into their perceptions of their career journeys amidst today's changing employment landscape. [For the full report, see ED610277.]
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38. The Implementation of a Regional Education Network through the Application of the Developmental Evaluation Process: A Case Study
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Griffiths, Amy Jane and Brady, John
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One in three young adults with autism or developmental disability have never been employed within eight years of their leaving high school (Newman et al., 2011). These students graduate from schools and may then work with multiple services providers across agencies. Collaboration between these agencies is critical. This case study describes the successful efforts of a group of educational leaders, parents, individuals with disabilities, and service providers who came together to improve the transition outcomes of young adults with disabilities. The success of this large and complex effort was facilitated by the application of a developmental evaluation process which adjusted the networks efforts in real time. We present a case study of the first two years of the development and implementation of this regional educational network, as well as the theory and methods of developmental evaluation used to guide its implementation. We conclude with implications for building and leading effective collaborative networks in education.
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39. Evaluation of Strengths of Dual Vocational Educational Training in Andalusia (Spain): A Stake on the Future
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Pozo-Llorente, María Teresa and Poza-Vilches, María de Fátima
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Dual Vocational Training was introduced in Spain in 2012 with the purpose to reinforce training based on employment requirements and to promote youth employment within the labour market. Since its implementation, there has been continuous growth of the presence of this modality across every Autonomous Community, with Andalusia being one of the latest regions to dualize the Vocational Educational Training (hereinafter VET) educational scheme. From the outset however, this modality has faced a number of obstacles that question its sustainability. Without losing sight of these obstacles, and with the purpose of providing arguments that justify the suitability of this model in Andalusia, this study aims to identify--from the unique perspective of three Andalusian educational institutions--the strengths of this modality and the opportunities that the Andalusian context offers. To this end, we have used the SWOT technique to analyse the opinion of a group of teachers regarding their thoughts on the Andalusian Dual VET system, from both an internal and external perspective. Workforce insertion and the quality of skills gained through training are some of the strengths that characterize this model, with the greatest opportunities derived from the needs of the Andalusian business and productive sectors. Based on the scenarios drawn, we have suggested a number of guidelines to capitalize on some of the identified strengths and take advantage of the opportunities observed.
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40. Current State of Youth Employment in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
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Pavlova, Ekaterina Pavlovna, Neustroeva, Ekaterina Nikolaevna, Spiridonova, Maya Egorovna, Larionova, Alexandra Germanovna, and Koryakina, Maria Ivanovna
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The relevance of this research is evident as the problems of the modern market economy and the financial system of the global world economy are highly pertinent to economic science. In the modern world, on its way to globalization, the ability to promptly adapt to the conditions of international competition is becoming instrumental for ensuring successful and sustainable development. The primary competitive advantage held by a highly developed country is related to the possibility of updating its human development index, which is largely determined by the state of its education system. Thus, this area is connected to the country's sustainable economic growth over the medium and long terms; the employment of fresh graduates is a complex, relevant and multifaceted problem, since it affects almost all segments of society. Currently, in view of the rapidly evolving situation in the labor market, the threat of unemployment for recent graduates is becoming extremely acute. Today's graduates replenish vulnerable social groups that are suffering from difficult life situations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the state of employment of university graduates, as exemplified by the employment of recent graduates, and to provide recommendations to assist in their recruitment. A combination of theoretical (analysis, generalization while establishing principles and patterns), organizational (comparison, longitudinal method) and empirical (sociological methods, observational methods, quantitative method of statistical processing of the collected data and interpretation method) methods was used in the research. As part of the study, knowledge regarding the primary factors affecting high school graduates' employment is defined and systematized. The practical and theoretical significance of the study lies in the recommendations developed for promoting university graduates' employment in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) [RS (Y)] based on the results obtained.
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41. Life Orientation Teacher Training Needs in Career Guidance at Rural High Schools
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Modiba, Matabe Rosa and Sefotho, Maximus Monaheng
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The inclusion of career guidance in the life orientation (LO) curriculum has posed a number of challenges for LO teachers in South Africa. LO teachers seem to experience confusion, feelings of incompetence, and insufficient training that points to a need for training and professional development. The purpose of this article is to explore the training needs of LO teachers in teaching career guidance at rural high schools in the Lephalale Municipality of the Waterberg District. A qualitative research approach was followed in this study. This study was a small investigation in which non-probability purposive sampling was used to select 2 secondary schools and 1 LO teacher per selected school. Face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were used to elicit responses from a purposefully selected sample of 2 Further Education and Training (FET) LO teachers at 2 rural high schools in the Lephalale Municipality. FET LO teacher training needs in teaching career guidance emerged as a major theme and is discussed in this article.
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42. Skilling Up: The Scope of Modern Apprenticeship
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Urban Institute, Dimeny, Ervin, Williamson, Deborah, Yates, Lisa, Hinson, David, Dimeny, Ervin, Williamson, Deborah, Yates, Lisa, Hinson, David, and Urban Institute
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The apprenticeship movement is reshaping skills, policies, and programs in the United States at a critical moment in our country's history. This reader offers a chorus of voices emanating from different countries and populations, echoing commitment to bright, sustainable workforce futures through a well-crafted approach to this talent development model. The collected chapters and vignettes address questions for businesses of all sizes, community-based organizations, and schools looking for a way to build strong pipelines of skilled labor, stimulate economies in struggling regions, provide options for adults seeking career changes, and stimulate engagement for students filled with curiosity about the promise of work-based learning. We endeavored to shatter myths, remove barriers, and erase fears of attempting apprenticeship, particularly for small and medium-size businesses and parents who are naturally concerned about meaningful and gainful career choices for their children. This reader intends to show the possibilities modern apprenticeship affords contemporary societies and to inspire many to reframe the boundaries of traditional thinking. [This report was co-published by the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.]
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43. Transitions from School to Work. UNICEF Technical Note
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Wilson-Clark, Gemma, and Saha, Soumi
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Young people face particular disadvantage finding employment, compared to older workers. This includes a lack of labour market and job-search information and experience, as well as a mismatch between youth aspirations and labour market realities, with limited job led growth. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance on how the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) can support government and partners to support adolescents to make a smooth transition from school to decent work. Skills development is a necessary, but not sufficient, component of such programming. Specifically, this Technical Note provides advice on: (1) Barriers for young people in accessing and developing skills for work and making the transition to decent work; (2) Programming principles to guide the design of UNICEF programming in the school to work transition area; (3) Evidence-based strategies for smoothing the transition from school to work with a focus on improving the work outcomes for older adolescents and young people; (4) Tools and resources for developing programs and partnerships, including working with other UN agencies, to ensure continuity of services as the most vulnerable young people transition from childhood into adulthood; and (5) Case studies of UNICEF programs that have improved the skills and/or work outcomes of older adolescents. [This note was produced by the UNICEF Education Section. ING on the Power for Youth Programme provided funding which made development of this note possible.]
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44. New Insights into the Back on Track Model's Effects on Opportunity Youth Outcomes: Opportunity Works Final Evaluation Report
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Urban Institute, Anderson, Theresa, Braga, Breno, Derrick-Mills, Teresa, Dodkowitz, Alan, Peters, H. Elizabeth, Runes, Charmaine, and Winkler, Mary
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Opportunity Works was a three-year effort led by Jobs for the Future to help opportunity youth--young people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school or meaningfully employed--access postsecondary and career pathways. Based on the Back on Track framework, seven cities across the country undertook collective impact approaches with diverse partners to provide supportive, enhanced preparation and postsecondary/career bridging for eligible young people, with a particular focus on young men of color. A quasi-experimental evaluation conducted by the Urban Institute in three Opportunity Works sites found large, consistent, positive effects on participants' postsecondary enrollment and increased connection with either education or employment about one year after program entry. Specifically, Opportunity Works participants were twice as likely to enroll in college and 25 percent more likely to be in either education or employment. Postsecondary results were even greater for young men of color, who were nearly six times as likely to enroll in college. This report also includes insights and lessons from qualitative field research. [This report was written with Adaeze Okoli and Natalie Spievack.]
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45. Life after High School: Economic Opportunities and Postsecondary Education among New Orleans Youth. Executive Summary
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Tulane University, Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives
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The first few years after high school are often viewed as crucial, laying the groundwork for the rest of a young person's life. Decisions made between the ages of 18-24 often guide further steps in a young person's life and can influence their ability to establish a satisfying and financially sustaining career. With that in mind, our new site, cowendata.org, and the accompanying executive summary, aims to answer the question of what young people in New Orleans are doing after high school by looking at their educational and employment pathways. Specifically, cowendata.org and the executive summary work to answer some key questions we often hear with regards to young people's post-high-school lives: How many of New Orleans high school graduates continue their educational journeys and go to college, and when they do, for how long, and where? How many enter the workforce and find jobs? If they're working, in what industries are they employed and are they making a true living wage? What are the best economic opportunities available in New Orleans and nationally right now, and what may be the best opportunities five or ten years in the future? What skills do they need to take advantage of those possibilities?
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46. Connecting Apprenticeships to the Young People Who Need Them Most: The Role of Community-Based Organizations
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Jobs for the Future, Sack, Michael, and Allen, Lili
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Despite the growing popularity of apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, and in-school youth apprenticeships in the United States, young adults who lack the credentials and connections to seamlessly enter postsecondary pathways remain overlooked. Young-adult-serving agencies and community-based organizations (CBOs) are underutilized key actors in employer-driven approaches to worker development. In this brief, the authors explore: (1) How CBOs serving young adults can connect constituents who are not in school or employed in high-demand careers through apprenticeships; and (2) How the CBOs can operate within a broader landscape, particularly with employers, workforce intermediaries, and other apprenticeship partners. This brief is organized in three sections. Section 1 defines apprenticeship--particularly Registered Apprenticeship--within the workforce development system and highlights why the model can be particularly valuable for young adults lacking on-ramps to skilled jobs. Section 2 considers how CBOs that serve young adults can learn from other CBOs that have successfully connected underrepresented populations to Registered Apprenticeships. It outlines a range of roles and activities that leverage the mission and capacity of CBOs, and offers keys to success. Section 3 brings together the first two sections with summary recommendations for CBOs as well as considerations for other key stakeholders, such as employers, workforce boards, city and other public and private partners, and policymakers. [This brief was produced by Jobs for the Future's (JFF's) Center for Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning and was funded by Salesforce.org as part of JFF's Apprenticeship Awareness and Expansion Initiative.]
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47. Opportunity in Our Backyard: How Collaboration on Summer Youth Employment Can Benefit Both Universities and Local Communities
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University of Michigan, Poverty Solutions, Naraharisett, Sruthi, Peterson, Natalie, and Erb-Downward, Jennifer
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Attaining a college degree is a well-recognized path to economic mobility in the United States, but enrollment gaps among students by family income persist. Interestingly, recent research finds this disparity to be particularly visible in communities where top ranked universities reside. In these communities, residents with no-affiliation to their local university face low rates of economic mobility from one generation to the next and universities see low rates of application and enrollment from nearby neighborhoods struggling with poverty. This pattern is reflective of the deep economic divides that exist between the families of students attending selective universities and local residents. On average, the median parent household income of college students at these schools is more than $62,000 greater than the median household income of residents in the community surrounding the college campus ($116,687 compared to $54,174, respectively). Many schools are now actively seeking ways to bridge the divide between students and the surrounding community through local engagement and improved recruitment. This brief describes a unique partnership between Washtenaw County, MichiganWorks! and the University of Michigan (UM) to pilot a university-engaged Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) and highlights opportunities this model presents for both universities and local youth. Data from this brief come from the first year of the partnership.
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48. Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship and Employability through Non-Formal and Informal Learning: The Latvia Case
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Pigozne, Tamara, Luka, Ineta, and Surikova, Svetlana
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This paper presents some results of the research on 'Adult education resources to reduce youth unemployment', which is a part of the project 'Implementation of the European agenda for adult learning'. The research applies a mixed-method approach (quantitative and qualitative data analysis). The purpose of the paper is to identify the most/least-efficient non-formal and informal learning methods, forms, and initiatives to promote youth entrepreneurship and employability in Latvia as well as to show the relationship between the profile of young adults and their opinion on these methods, forms, and initiatives. The findings show that the young adults stressed the importance of cooperation with employers in organising educational activities, field trips as well as the necessity of having internships, projects, and meetings with entrepreneurs to learn from their experience. The most efficient non-formal and informal learning methods, forms, and initiatives to promote youth entrepreneurship and employability in Latvia are as follows: internship in a company or institution, projects, other persons' experience and success stories, and training enterprises. The least efficient ones are mentoring, business incubators, coaching, individual work/action plan for the young people, business clubs, and business start-up funds/grants. The opinion of young adults on all aspects of non-formal and informal learning methods, forms, and initiatives depends on their profile (gender, education level, employment status, learning experience, etc.).
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49. Routes through Education into Employment as England Enters the 2020s
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Roberts, Ken
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Throughout the 1980s and 90s there was international interest in the UK's extensive experience (which began in the 1970s) with measures to alleviate youth unemployment. Today the UK attracts international attention on account of its low rates of youth unemployment and NEET, its (still) relatively rapid education-to-work transitions, and (according to the OECD) its sustainable system for funding mass higher education. This paper uses a transitions regime paradigm to overview the outcomes of 40 years of change in England's lower and upper secondary education, government-supported training, welfare provisions, economy and labour markets. We see how government policies polarise schools and young people into those who are achieving and those who are failing. Then, as employers become more influential, young people are re-sorted into the employment classes that have been formed during 30 years of change in the economy and labour market. Most from the former achieving group are pulled into the centre, between the smaller numbers on the one side who are embarking on elite careers, and on the other those who become part of a precariat class.
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50. Opportunity Works: Four Ways to Help Young Adults Find Pathways to Success
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Jobs for the Future, Aspen Institute, Steinberg, Adria, and Almeida, Cheryl
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Opportunity Works is a national initiative to dramatically improve the life trajectories of low-income young people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school or working. This population, often called "opportunity youth," comprises a significant segment of America's potential workforce. Yet they are also the young men and women who face the greatest barriers to entering and advancing in the labor market. Launched in 2015, Opportunity Works has demonstrated how to make a difference in the lives of young people who find themselves without a clear path forward. Opportunity Works served more than 2,000 teens and young adults. Their successes include: (1) More than 800 individuals earned a high school credential; (2) Nearly 1,000 participants enrolled in postsecondary education or training; and (3) Almost half of all participants were young men of color. These initial results are particularly powerful for a population that has had limited access to effective programs in the past. In this report, the authors highlight lessons learned from the initiative, which was based on Jobs for the Future's (JFF) "Back on Track" model to reconnect opportunity youth and guided by JFF coaching to local anchor organizations and service providers. The authors also describe the complex nature of what it takes to reach these positive results and the many interlocking pieces that are part of the solution. [This report was produced by the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions. Additional funding was provided by the Andrus Family Fund and the Ballmer Group.]
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