Sentences with phrase «occupational choice»

The researchers say the fact that they found minor differences on occupational choices and aspirations from Years 4 to 10 suggest these discussions could be introduced at an earlier age.

No longer can schools rely on the fact that women have few other occupational choices, or the fact that highly skilled workers are earning more in a technology - driven economy.

What all this means, of course, is that entrepreneurship has become an accepted occupational choice in the United States, occasioning a continuing boom of company building that fluctuates modestly with economic conditions but persists at a generally high level.

I was especially interested in the influence of a teacher's gender on students» perceptions, because engagement with an academic subject may be an important precursor to subsequent achievement levels, course selection in high school and college, and also occupational choice.

Our main message is that developing a theory of time allocation and occupational choice is important for understanding the forces that shape gender differences in labor market outcomes,» the researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Toronto and Princeton University write.

The former Soviet bloc granted some occupational choice, and allowed consumers to use their money to purchase what they wanted among the limited items available.

Instead, basic liberties for Rawls consist only in civic and political freedoms, such as a right to equal political voice, and personal freedoms, such as freedoms of movement and occupational choice and freedom to hold personal property.

For this study, the researchers compiled surveys of 1,600 households across Kenya over the years, looking at, among other things, average daily per capita consumption — meaning total money spent by the individual and household — and occupational choices.

The sense of uncertainty is an age - old dilemma, but it may help to know it's all a part of vocational development, that's the ongoing process of matching our vocational self - concept to occupational choice.

There was no overlap in the top five occupations for boys when compared with girls» top five occupational choices.»

«For example, with the under - representation of girls in engineering, knowing that altruism underpins the occupational choices of a significant number of girls could mean exploring with girls the ways in which engineering helps people and communities, as one part of their occupational decision - making.

Thus they had only small differential effects on the occupational choices of talented women college graduates; the fraction of women entering the teaching profession from highly selective colleges fell by only 3.2 percentage points.

We then subdivided each of these expectations, developing four components that affect the occupational choices of female college graduates:

Today, Hansen says, young people are more mobile «in terms of both geography and occupational choice.

Consistent with a Roy model of occupational choice, teachers entering the profession during recessions are significantly more effective in raising student test scores.

The range of studies covered areas as diverse as criminal recidivism to occupational choice, diagnosis of heart attacks to academic performance.

The results are linked to occupational choices.