This article focuses primarily on how changes in occupational structure affect the distribution of earnings of individuals. It also considers the contribution of changes to the distribution of earnings of individuals caused by changes in the distribution of earnings by occupation over the 1973-82 period. (Author/CT)

The author discusses the general obstacles that athletes must overcome and the likelihood that they will break into professional sports. He discusses the financial rewards and the obstacles that professionals face when the athletic career is over. (CH)

Examines the salaries, location, and work challenges that motivate environmental professionals to change jobs or remain in their current positions. (MDH)

This article analyzes the teacher union movement and the system of teacher bargaining in England and Wales. The author traces the postwar history of teacher negotiations and shows that the present system of negotiation has experienced increasing difficulties in the past decade, such as a rise in teacher militancy. (Author/CT)

The self-employed began to more closely resemble wage and salary workers during 1972-79. Their workweek was shortened, they tended to be younger, and were more likely to be women than in the past, but they continued to earn less than other workers. (Author)

While faculty salaries rose more overall, there are continuing signs of salary compression, with lower-ranking faculty getting larger raises than higher-ranking faculty, and faculty continue to lose purchasing power. (MSE)

An annual survey of college faculty pay shows faculty in "hard-to-hire" disciplines such as engineering, accounting, physics, and computer science continue to command higher-than-average salaries, while disciplines recently at the bottom of the pay scale remain there. At all ranks except full professor, private college faculty earned more. (MSE)

Explains how unequal salary schedules for Black and White teachers with similar qualifications were eliminated in public schools. Reviews pertinent federal court cases and legal arguments, describes how adopted salary schedules (in contrast to merit-based salary schedules) affected court decisions, and discusses the effects of the court decisions.…

Examines trends in participation of women in science and engineering over the past decade and estimates changes during the 1980s. Focuses on educational attainment, employment status and sector, and salaries, and indicates a gap in salaries and career opportunities between men and women. (JN)

Analyzes racial and public policy implications of establishing, within a new desegregated metropolitan school district, a uniform salary schedule for teachers who formerly worked for eleven independent school districts located in the same county. (Author/GC)

An annual survey found that, alhtough administrator salary increases at public colleges and universities exceeded the inflation rate, those at private institutions lagged behind, and many institutions targeted particular groups of employees for raises. As in the past, women and minority group members earned less than their White male counterparts.…

Provides highlights of the 1985 American Chemical Society survey, which differs from previous surveys in that all United States members were targeted. Responses from approximately 44,000 members are summarized for such areas as sex, race, salaries, and type of employer. Indicates that the profession is dominated by white males. (JN)

Mothers receiving money for child support were found to be in the labor force more often than those not awarded such support. Women who received alimony were also more likely to work than those who did not receive such payments. (CT)

The job of school administrators is overviewed: nature of the work; working conditions and earnings; experience, training, and other qualifications; and employment and job outlook. (CT)

This report presents 1983 annual average weekly earnings of wage and salary workers (both men and women) who usually work full time (excluding the "incorporated self-employed") in more than 200 occupations, according to the classification system developed for the 1980 Census of Population. (Author)