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Family assessment in K-12 settings: Understanding family systems to provide effective, collaborative services

PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS, Issue 6 2009
Christie Eppler
Professional school counselors, school psychologists, and other professionals working in K-12 settings have a complex job of meeting the needs of all students. Often, referral to outside counseling is necessary; however, an effective and comprehensive counseling model advocates for school mental health professionals to employ a wide variety of techniques to ensure equitable distribution of services to all students and their families. This article explores using family assessment tools to support both students' academic achievement and their families within a school context. A case study illustrates how a professional school counselor could employ and collaborate with family assessment tools to support the student, family, and school systems. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Unemployment and Search Externalities in a Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Workers

ECONOMICA, Issue 273 2002
Pieter A. Gautier
This paper presents a matching model with low, and high,skilled workers and simple and complex jobs. I show that the degree to which low,skilled workers are harmed by high,skilled workers who are willing to temporarily accept simple jobs depends on the relative productivity of high, and low,skilled workers on simple jobs and on the quit rate of high,skilled workers. Under certain conditions, low,skilled workers can benefit from job competition with high,skilled workers. Within this framework, some explanations for the high and persistent unemployment rates of lower educated workers in the 1990s are evaluated. [source]

Aggregation Bias in Elasticities of Substitution and the Minimum Wage Paradox

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 2 2000
Coen N. Teulings
While the employment effects of minimum wages are usually reported to be small (suggesting low substitutability between skill types), direct estimates suggest a much larger degree of substitutability. This article argues that this paradox is largely due to a bias induced by the aggregation of skill types into broad categories. An assignment model is applied where skilled workers have a comparative advantage in complex jobs. The implied pattern of substitutability reveals the sources of the bias. Estimation results for the United States show elasticities of complementarity to be underestimated by up to a factor 2.5. The methods laid out likewise can be applied to other markets where different quality types are close substitutes, such as the housing market. [source]

Things to Do Today . . . : A Daily Diary Study on Task Completion at Work

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2010
Brigitte J.C. Claessens
Relatively little is known about how goals in complex jobs are translated into action and how they are completed in real life settings. This study addressed the question to what extent planned work may actually be completed on a daily basis. The completion of daily work goals was studied in a sample of 878 tasks identified by 29 R&D engineers with the help of a daily diary. Multilevel analysis was used to analyse the joint effect of task attributes, perceived job characteristics, and personality attributes on the completion of planned work goals. At the level of task attributes, we found that priority, urgency, and lower importance were related to task completion, and at the individual level, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and time management training. Task completion was not related to task attractiveness, workload, job autonomy, planning, or perceived control of time. On connaît relativement peu de choses sur la manière dont les objectifs dans des tâches complexes sont traduites en action et sur la manière dont elles sont accomplies dans le cadre de la vie quotidienne. Cette étude a abordé la question de savoir dans quelle mesure les travaux prévus peuvent être effectivement achevés dans la vie quotidienne. Pour ce faire, un échantillon de 878 tâches a été identifié par 29 ingénieurs R&D à l'aide d'un journal quotidien. Une analyse multi niveau a été réalisée pour étudier l'effet conjoint des caractéristiques de la tâche et des caractéristiques de la personnalité sur l'accomplissement des objectifs d'un travail planifié. Au niveau des caractéristiques de la tâche, nous trouvons que l'accomplissement de la tâche est liéà la priorité, l'urgence et une importance basse et au niveau individuel à la conscience, la stabilitéémotionnelle et à la gestion du temps. L'accomplissement de la tâche n'est pas liéà son attrait, à la charge de travail, à l'autonomie au travail ou au contrôle du temps perçu. [source]