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Download full textMisko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
This report is the first component of a larger study investigating training practices relating to traditional trade apprenticeships, with a view to developing policy directions on how to maintain their relevance and usefulness. This first phase of the study explores data on trends in training activity and completions, provides details on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Educational Trends, Incentives
Oliver, Damian – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
During the recent economic downturn, media and industry reports of skill shortages in the trades continued to appear. The intent of this paper is to examine the evidence for skill shortages in the trades persisting during the economic downturns over the last 20 years, using various indicators. These include employment growth, vacancy rates,…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, Labor Market, Economic Climate, Employment
Nedlands Coll. of Advanced Education (Australia). – 1980
Student skills and employment opportunities for diplomates of Nedlands College of Advanced Education, Western Australia, are surveyed. For diplomates in the fields of teaching, library media, and recreation, an oversupply exists in the labor market. It is suggested that this oversupply will continue for at least two years in the case of library…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential
Littler, Craig R. – 1991
This publication is part of the study materials for the distance education course, Adults Learning: The Changing Workplace B, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University. The first part of the document analyzes the relationship between technology, skill, and work within the context of the debates concerning deskilling and managerial control…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Automation, Consumer Economics
Brown, Richard K., Ed. – 1997
This book contains nine papers that were presented to the Sociology and Social Policy section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The first paper, "Introduction: Work and Employment in the 1990s" (Richard Brown), puts work and employment in a historical context and examines how globalization of the economy has…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Economic Change, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 1998
This book, which is intended primarily for Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector, industry decision makers, and policymakers, provides an overview of occupational trends and the current training effort relating to occupations in Australian industry. Chapter 1 traces economic and labor market changes and the changing…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Agriculture, Blue Collar Occupations, Building Trades
