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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This document contains transcripts of United States Senate hearings of March, 1981, on the Youth Opportunity Wage Act of 1981. The proposed Act would set a lower minimum wage for work performed by youth under the age of 20; and extend the allowable lower wages to be paid in other industries besides the food service and retail industries where they…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Peer reviewedHusted, Stewart W. – Business Education Forum, 1978
Impact on distributive education cooperative programs due to the legislation increasing the minimum wage effective January 1, 1978, indicates that the change could greatly restrict future cooperative placements, thereby reducing distributive education enrollments. Employer strategies (for example, reducing student work hours) to overcome wage…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Distributive Education, Employer Attitudes
Chiswick, Barry R. – New Perspectives, 1985
Discusses, in terms of consumers, employers, and employees, how a "taste for discrimination," that is, someone's preference for or against association with some group in the labor market, can influence behavior and hence who gets hired. Argues that people with the strongest tastes for discrimination pay the heaviest cost. (RDN)
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
New Perspectives, 1985
The following pivotal issues in the comparable worth controversy are debated by two economists: (1) the size and origins of the wage gap between the sexes; (2) possible motives for discrimination by employers; (3) cultural factors affecting career choices; (4) the undervaluing of predominantly female occupations; and (5) the efficacy of job…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educational Background, Employee Responsibility, Employer Attitudes
Schwartz, Felice N.; Zimmerman, Jean – 1992
This book explores three questions: What is really going on now for women and men at home and on the job? What is wrong? and How can it be made to work? Its four parts are sometimes addressed explicitly to four intended types of readers: top executive of an organization; human resources officer; manager; and men and women at home and at work. The…
Descriptors: Career Development, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employer Attitudes
Sarmiento, Tony – 1991
Workplace literacy programs can support the path toward either low wages or high skills. Instead of the "high skill" path, most U.S. companies follow the "low wage" path. Depending on who is involved, which program goals are selected, and what planning process is followed, a workplace literacy program can maintain outdated workplaces or foster…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices, Human Resources
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 2003
The benefits of offering high school students career and technical education (CTE) in addition to training in basic academic skills and the cost-effectiveness of CTE were examined by reviewing available data on demand, supply, and results for CTE. The analysis confirmed that the market and demand for workers with only a high school education still…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship
