The "Working Lives" Project: A Window into Australian Education and Workforce Participation

Autor/inn/en	Fehring, Heather; Herring, Katherine
Titel	The "Working Lives" Project: A Window into Australian Education and Workforce Participation
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 26 (2013) 5, S.494-513 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2012.693585
Schlagwörter	Labor Force Development; Foreign Countries; Work Attitudes; Skilled Workers; Longitudinal Studies; Career Change; Vocational Education; Higher Education; Family Work Relationship; Reentry Workers; Career Planning; Career Choice; Education Work Relationship; Gender Differences; Mixed Methods Research; Employment Level; Educational Attainment; Questionnaires; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitskräftebestand; Ausland; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Facharbeiter; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Career changes; Berufswechsel; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Beruflicher Wiedereinstieg; Karriereplanung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Beschäftigungsgrad; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Fragebogen; Australien
Abstract	Lifting the rate of workforce participation in Australia has been called "the challenge of the decade". In light of the ageing workforce, changing nature of work demands and workforce attitudes, the need for insight into current patterns of workforce participation has never been more urgent. The following paper offers an overview of an Australian Research Council funded, small scale, exploratory Linkage Project which charts the first 10?years of the working lives of a group of skilled Australian workers. Using a mixed methods approach involving a retrospective, quasi-longitudinal, life course methodology focusing on self-reported reasons for job changes, the study examined the major life events and occupational transitions experienced by two groups of graduates: one from a trade and the other from a higher education pathway. The study documents an increasing emphasis on work-life balance for these workers and provides some insight into educational and workplace practice changes. The findings also indicate educational considerations concerning pathway and re-entry programmes that can facilitate flexible, contemporary career trajectories. Pathway and re-entry programmes have the potential to maximise skill usage and personal career satisfaction. Issues related to career choice, future career planning and career change need to be more effectively addressed at the education system, organisational and governmental levels. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10