Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps

Introduction, D.W. Livingstone

Part I: Research Perspectives

1. Prior Concepts and Theories of Relations Between Workers and Jobs, D.W. Livingstone and K.V. Pankhurst

2. Prior Empirical Research on Education-Jobs Matching, D.W. Livingstone

3. The Education-Jobs Gap and the Education Requirements Matching Project, D.W. Livingstone

Part II: Surveying the Gaps

4. National Trends in Employment Conditions, Job Requirements, Workers' Learning and Matching, 1983-2004, D.W. Livingstone and M. Raykov

5. Employment Conditions, Job Requirements, Workers' Learning and Matching by Employee Class and Specific Occupational Groups, Ontario, 2004, D.W. Livingstone and M. Raykov

Part III: Exploring the Gaps: Case Studies

6. An Integrated Theory of Work and Learning, K.V. Pankhurst

7. Continual Learning, Autonomy, and Competency of High School Teachers, M. Lordan

8. Staying Current in Programming: The Importance of Informal Learning and Task Discretion in Maintaining Job Competence, J. Weststar

9. Clerical Workers: Learning in Fragmenting Workplaces, M. Radsma 

10. Autoworkers' Learning in Lean Production, D.W. Livingstone and O. Wilson

11. Struggling to Remain Employed: Learning Strategies of Workers with Disabilities and the Education-Jobs Match, S. Officer

Part IV: Conclusions

12. The Relationship Between Work and Learning: Empirical Evidence of the Case Studies, K.V. Pankhurst

13. Education and Jobs: The Way Ahead, D.W. Livingstone and K.V. Pankhurst