Education & jobs : exploring the gaps /

Education & jobs : exploring the gaps /

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Imprint:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Description:	xiii, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- Canada. Underemployment -- Canada. College graduates -- Employment -- Canada. College graduates -- Employment. Labor supply -- Effect of education on. Underemployment. Canada.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7897023

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Varying Form of Title:	Education and jobs : exploring the gaps
Other authors / contributors:	Livingstone, D. W.
ISBN:	9781442600522 1442600527 9781442600508 (pbk.) 1442600500 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 questions by building on earlier research and presenting new labour force surveys and case studies of different economic classes and specific occupational groups. The survey evidence finds an increasingly overqualified non-managerial labour force (especially service sector and industrial workers, recent immigrants, and visible minorities). The case studies of professional employees (teachers and computer programmers), clerical workers, auto workers, and workers with disabilities explore how workers modify these apparent gaps by continuing to learn and reshape their jobs. The book is the most thorough exploration to date of relations between workers and jobs. The Education-Job Requirement Matching (EJRM) Research Project team, including M. Lordan, S. Officer, K.V. Pankhurst, M. Radsma, M. Raykov, J. Weststar, and O. Wilson, worked closely together for several years conducting and analyzing both survey and case study data. The new paradigm they present aims to help reshape future studies of learning and work." -- Publisher description.

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Summary:	What are the correlations between the education that employees bring to their jobs, the education that is required to do those jobs, and the skills that employees acquire while working on the job? In Education and Jobs, D.W. Livingstone and contributors explore these questions. Written as a sequel to the highly acclaimed The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment or Economic Democracy, the work builds on earlier research, and presents brand new case studies of professional, service, industrial, and differently-abled employees, including high school teachers, clerical workers, autoworkers, and computer programmers. Throughout, the book reveals an increasingly overqualified non-managerial Canadian labour force and demonstrates that most workers deal with gaps or mismatches in formal terms by continually learning and reshaping their jobs. Education and Jobs presents a unique blend of qualitative and quantitative analysis, and offers a comprehensive, long-overdue approach to re-examining the relationship between educational training and workforce skills.
Physical Description:	xiii, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781442600522 1442600527 9781442600508 1442600500