The cost efficiency of supported employees with intellectual disabilities who were served by vocational rehabilitation agencies throughout the United State from 2002 to 2007 was explored. Findings indicate that, on average, supported employees with intellectual disabilities were cost-efficient from the taxpayers' perspective regardless of whether they had secondary disabilities. In addition, no...

Objective of the Research This study proposes a model and research method focusing on the “Development of a System for Preparing and Analyzing Transcripts on Career Counseling and Job Placement (hereinafter referred to as “Careetalk”)” that analyzes the characteristics and processes of career counseling from the perspective of counseling technique. Additionally, this study utilizes Careetalk to...

Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational education and had no signif...

This book gives an account of studies made by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. It describes the organization of education in New Zealand and the way this organization works out in practice and thus shows the general setting into which all educational and vocational guidance in the country must be fitted. After a short account of the types of school available and numbers to be f...

measures aimed at bringing the hospital medical staffing structure into balance over the next 10 earss' This initiative has been endorsed by the Central Committee for Hospital Medical Services and the Hospital Junior StaffCommittee. If the proposals are agreed implementation will start on 1 January 1987 and will result in major changes to the junior hospital doctors' career structure. This stud...

the factory, separated almost entirely from the life of the child, whose education, on the other hand, is supervised and controlled by an authority who is not likely to be familiar with any of the activities in which the boy will eventually engage. Thus there is no longer in this modern community that correlation between the boy's early and later life which prevailed in more primitive groups. T...

Article history: Received 18 September 2014 Available online 22 October 2014 This study investigated the influence of social comparison on career choice certainty and its potential mechanisms: regret as a mediator and vocational identity as a moderator. Before the formal experiment, 30 pairs of vocational values representing typical conflicts in career decisionmaking for Chinese university stud...

This paper considers the next steps for the DigCurV project in working towards a sustainable future for vocational education and training in Digital Curation Keywords-component; DigCurV; Digital Curator Vocational Education; Europe