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Problems of Youth Unemployment; Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education; Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities; Subcommittee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives. Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1980
The thirty-nine papers presented here were prepared by persons concerned with youth unemployment at the request of two subcommittees of the House Committee on Education and Labor. They address root causes and ways both public schools and employment and training systems can reduce the extent and the rate of youth unemployment. An introduction…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns, Job Placement, Job Training
Displaced Homemakers Act, 1977. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session on S. 418 to Provide for the Establishment of Multipurpose Service Centers for Displaced Homemakers, and for Other Purposes.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1977
These hearings on Senate bill 418 (Displaced Homemakers Act, 1977) explore the problems or barriers confronting women (primarily middle-aged) who are seeking to reenter the labor force or enter it for the first time and ways that existing or new Federal programs can more adequately serve the needs of these women. The first of several witnesses…
Descriptors: Career Change, Counseling Services, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Problems
Youth Employment Act of 1979, Part 3; Hearings before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, First Session on H.R. 4465 and H.R. 4534 (New York, New York on September 17; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1979).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1979
This is a report of hearings held in New York City on September 17, 1979, and in Philadelphia on October 20, 1979, on two federal youth employment bills: H.R. 4465 and H.R. 4534. H.R. 4465 proposes to combine immediate work and training and training opportunities with long term changes in the institutions and programs which serve young people.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation, Hearings, Job Placement
Youth Employment Act of 1979, Part 4. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 4465, H.R. 4534, H.R. 5876, H.R. 6208, and H.R. 6711 (March 11, 13, 18, 19, and 25, 1980).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1980
This is a report of hearings held in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 13, 18, 19, and 25, 1980, on five federal youth employment and training bills: H.R. 4465, H.R. 4534, H.R. 5876, H.R. 6208, and H.R. 6711. H.R. 4465 proposes to combine immediate work and training and training opportunities with long-term changes in the institutions and programs…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation, Hearings, Job Placement
THE COMPARATIVE EXPERIENCE WITH TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE, RESEARCH PROGRAM ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. REPRINT NUMBER 187.
GORDON, MARGARET S. – 1966
WITH THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT OF 1962 THE UNITED STATES EMBARKED ON A TYPE OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT HAS EXISTED IN WESTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS SINCE WORLD WAR 2. IN ALL THE EUROPEAN NATIONS STUDIED, RETRAINING PROGRAMS ARE A PERMANENT INSTRUMENT OF LABOR MARKET POLICY, AS USEFUL IN TIGHT LABOR MARKETS AS IN PERIODS OF UNEMPLOYMENT.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
Oversight Hearing on Youth Employment and Demonstrations Projects Act. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session (Washington, D.C., November 10, 1977).
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
Reported here is the oversight hearing on the Youth Employment and Demonstrations Projects Act to examine the problem of youth unemployment and the extent to which existing federal programs are addressing the problem. Major content is the testimony of four witnesses: Leon Anderson, Division of Human Resources, U.S. Forest Service, Department of…
Descriptors: Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Federal Legislation
Recruitment, Job Search, and the United States Employment Service. Volume I: Findings and Conclusions.
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Camil Associates, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1975
United States Employment Service (ES) characteristics related to recruitment and job search activities in 20 middle-sized American cities from July through December 1974 are described in this report based on interviews with approximately 600 employers and 2,000 job seekers. Part 1 covers employer recruitment and job search, focusing on the role of…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employers
Additional and Realistic Dimensions for Adult Basic Education - ABE for Real?
Patten, W. George – 1977
Adult basic education (ABE) programs are not adequate to prepare the unemployed and undereducated to gain entry into the labor market and conceivably higher education. Some indications of the scope of the problem can be seen in a recent Division of Adult Education, U.S. Office of Education, report which indicated that more than fifty-one million…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Ancillary Services, Career Counseling
Income Inequality and Employment. R&D Monograph 66.
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Fish, Mary – 1978
This monograph is a review and analysis of over fifty research and development projects sponsored by the Office of Research and Development which have dealt with welfare recipients and the low-wage employed. The author examines the process by which welfare recipients move into the employed ranks and the extent to which this is accomplished through…
Descriptors: Blacks, Dependents, Economic Change, Economic Factors
TRAINING METHODS FOR OLDER WORKERS. EMPLOYMENT OF OLDER WORKERS, 2.
BELBIN, R.M. – 1965
A SURVEY WAS PRESENTED OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE ON AGE CHANGES IN HUMAN CAPACITIES, ESPECIALLY IN LEARNING ABILITY AND ADAPTABILITY, AND DESCRIBED VARIOUS METHODS USED TO TRAIN WORKERS OVER 40. THE ROLE OF MEMORY, MOTIVATION, RIGIDITY, AND INTELLIGENCE IN DETERMINING THE LEARNING EFFICIENCY OF MATURE ADULTS WAS ASSESSED, ALSO DIFFICULTIES CAUSED BY…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age, Age Differences, Anxiety
Workfare States.
Peck, Jamie – 2001
This book discusses the evolution of workfare policies in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Chapter 1 defines the term "workfare" and examines the concepts of transnationalizing workfare and workfarist labor regulation. Chapter 2 establishes workfare's theoretical context and explores the relationship between welfare…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Targeting Employment Services (Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 29-May 1, 1999).
Eberts, Randall W., Ed.; O'Leary, Christopher J., Ed.; Wandner, Stephen A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 13 papers on targeting employment services. The following papers are included: "Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act" (Stephen A. Wandner); "Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation" (Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, Daniel H. Klepinger);…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Decision Making, Delivery Systems