Meaningful improvements were noted in self-advocacy, autonomy, and vocational outcome expectations.
2 As for other forms of education, the expectation that vocational education and training will also lead to positive externalities for the society as a whole, or reduce negative externalities that arise from low levels of education, provides a rationale for public co-financing of education (see e.g. CEDEFOP 2013).
This finding runs counter to expectations that standardised vocational degrees, a liberal and flexible labour market structure, and predominantly short unemployment spells protect young skilled workers from scarring in case they happen to experience early career instability.
The study involved a vocational school with relatively low expectations from the suburb region, a technical college and an'elite' grammar school from the city centre.
This confirms Hypothesis 2a, but against our expectation, dropouts without pre-tertiary vocational qualifications achieve on average a slightly higher occupational status.
Addressing RTW-expectations in occupational healthcare services or vocational rehabilitation might be beneficial in early stages or even prior to a sick leave episode.
How patients' expectations of recovery affect their health and vocational outcome is insufficiently researched.
The two groups of women did not differ in three domains of self-confidence or outcome expectations (engineering tasks, navigating organizational climate, or multiple roles), in vocational interests, or in workplace barriers.
Against this background, vocational decisions are based on the balancing of individual interests, values, and expectations (Eccles 2005; Neuenschwander et al. 2012).
Satisfaction with family life, vocational and financial situations improve with age [ 31] and perhaps expectations decline with age too.
Social cognitive career theory suggests that vocational interests develop over time, partially as a function of self-efficacy expectations.
