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Download full textButterworth, John; Gilmore, Dana S.; Kiernan, William E.; Schalock, Robert – 1999
This monograph summarizes national and state level changes in employment patterns for individuals with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. It presents longitudinal data from state mental retardation/developmental disability (MR/DD) agencies covering 8 years between FY88 and FY96, and for federal/state vocational rehabilitation…
Descriptors: Adults, Change Strategies, Data Analysis, Employment
Fesko, Sheila Lynch; Temelini, David; Graham, Audrey – 1997
This brief discusses outcomes of a study that investigated the employment and job search practices used with individuals with mental retardation to those used with individuals with mental illness, sensory impairments, and physical impairments. Survey participants included 568 employment staff and 303 individuals with disabilities from community…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Patterns, Employment Services, Employment Statistics
Stuiber, Paul; Lecoanet, Robin; Lathrop, Jessica; Miller, David; Russell, Matthew; Schoenbrunn, Rob; Smith, Joshua; Specht, Christine – 2001
Wisconsin Works (W-2) is a time-limited employment assistance program that, in September 1997, replaced cash entitlements provided to low-income families under Aid to Families with Dependent Children. W-2 provides subsidized or unsubsidized placements for participants, based upon their level of preparedness for employment. Participants in both…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1999
A study conducted a questionnaire survey of 70 refugee women in Illinois and 2 service provider focus groups to assess the effects of welfare changes on refugee women and to identify barriers to workforce participation. Survey findings were that refugee women in the workforce are concentrated in low-wage jobs and do not earn enough income to move…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Day Care, Employed Women
The Employment Experiences of Public Housing Residents: Findings from the Jobs-Plus Baseline Survey.
Martinez, John M. – 2002
A survey collected baseline data about public housing communities and residents just prior to the start of the Jobs-Plus program. The data were from all working-age, nondisabled heads of households in eight public housing developments in seven cities with customarily high rates of joblessness and reliance on welfare. The developments were part of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Community Support
Gallup Organization, Inc., Princeton, NJ. – 1999
A study examined adults' attitudes and experience related to work and the selection of a career or job. Data were gathered through a telephone survey of a sample of 1,003 adults (659 employed either full- or part-time), 18 years of age and older, conducted in June and July 1999. The following areas were explored: current employment status; the…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Career Choice, Career Development
de Wolff, Alice – 2000
A survey of 205 people, 4 group interviews with approximately 30 people, and 6 design and analysis meetings involving approximately 40 people were conducted in a 1999 participatory study of contingent workers in Toronto. (Contingent work was defined to be lower-waged forms of non-permanent work arrangements that include contracting, employment…
Descriptors: Adults, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
