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Sorrentino, Constance – Monthly Labor Review, 1981
Examines the comparative labor market experience of youth in the United States and eight other developed countries from 1960-1979, focusing upon unemployment levels and rates. Finds that the situation worsened in industrialized nations after the 1974-75 recession and that Japanese and German youth continue to have the most favorable job prospects.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Developed Nations, Employment Opportunities, Job Training
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Carnoy, Martin – Economics of Education Review, 1997
Advanced industrial economies face a work crisis in creating wage employment in a changing job market without greatly increased job inequality. There is a fundamental conflict between a deregulatory labor-market philosophy and policies intending to use educational expansion to increase employment with higher productivity and wages. Education and…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Economic Factors, Education Work Relationship, Employment
Mincer, Jacob; Higuchi, Yoshio – 1988
A study was conducted to test the proposition that intensive formation of human capital on the job is the basic reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and retraining, much of it specific to the firm, results also in steeper wage trajectories, because of growth of skills in the firm,…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Experience, Employment Level, Employment Practices
Sorrentino, Constance – 1981
This bulletin examines the labor market experience of youth in the United States and eight other industrial countries from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. The analysis focuses upon unemployment, the most visible and measurable form of labor underutilization. The report highlights the size of the youth unemployment problem and discusses some of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Apprenticeships, Career Counseling, Career Guidance