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Walsh, G. – Labour Education, 1987
Discusses societal pressures, including the need for child care, that have resulted in the increased participation of women in the labor force. Outlines steps to increase women's participation in the labor movement and lists positive actions that some unions have already taken. (CH)
Descriptors: Adults, Day Care, Employed Women, Labor Supply
Braddock, Douglas – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 1983
Defines a labor shortage, examines evidence of a current engineer shortage and of an adequate supply and the assumptions that lead to a projected shortage. (SK)
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections, Engineers, Labor Market
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Fullerton, Howard N., Jr.; Tschetter, John – Monthly Labor Review, 1983
Presents new projections for the 1995 labor force with alternative demographic and economic assumptions. Lists significant changes in the labor force trends reflecting the aging of the baby-boom generation and the growth of the Black population. (NRJ)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Projections, Labor Force, Labor Supply
Olson, Lawrence – Aging and Work: A Journal on Age, Work and Retirement, 1982
The United States is on the verge of a labor shortage that is partly the result of declining birth rates. An increase in work force participation by older adults, encouraged by reversals of early retirement and other policy changes, would be advantageous to employers, workers, and the economy. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Labor Problems, Labor Supply, Population Trends
Training, 1982
The U.S. Training Census and Trends Report indicates that the structure and emphasis of training are being affected by demographic trends, the emergence of new technologies, and government regulations. Training appears to evolve to meet the needs of individual industries. (SK)
Descriptors: Business, Educational Trends, Federal Regulation, Industry
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Dorken, Herbert; Webb, James T. – American Psychologist, 1981
Presents data showing a 42-percent increase between 1974 and 1979 in the number of licensed psychologists. Attributes the increase to: 1) increased production of doctorates; 2) shift in orientation toward clinical/professional psychology; 3) increased interest in licensing; and, 4) the fact that relatively few psychologists are leaving the…
Descriptors: Certification, Doctoral Degrees, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Sassen-Koob, Saskia – Social Problems, 1981
Analyzes the consolidation of the world economic system as a condition for the emergence of migration as a labor system. Discusses effects of the growing presence of immigrant labor in the tertiary sector of all core countries. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Industrialization
Bernstein, Aaron; And Others – Business Week, 1988
Discusses the increasing shortage of qualified entry-level workers. Describes solutions that are being attempted by various companies, including increasing the training budget, raising wages, and providing better benefits. (CH)
Descriptors: Adults, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, Entry Workers
Herren, Laura M. – Personnel (AMA), 1989
Discusses demographic changes affecting the labor market. States that human resource policies must change to recruit and maintain a qualified work force. Topics include (1) systems support of the human resources function; (2) recruitment, both at the college and high school level; (3) employer differentiation strategies; and (4) training. (CH)
Descriptors: Adults, Futures (of Society), Human Resources, Job Training
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Hoyt, Kenneth B. – Career Development Quarterly, 1988
Notes that five-sixths of new workforce entrants between 1986 and 2000 will be women, minorities, and immigrants and that their career development needs must be met. Lists research-based generalizations concerning this issue and provides selected examples of statistics supporting each generalization. Concludes with comments regarding challenges…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employees, Futures (of Society), Immigrants
Girouard, Shirley A.; Smoot, Monica D. – Nursing and Health Care, 1994
The strategic planning efforts of the North Carolina Center for Nursing include gathering baseline data on the state of the profession, addressing nursing supply and demand, and recommending ways to improve the state's nursing resource database and the numbers of minorities in nursing. (SK)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Labor Market, Labor Supply, Labor Turnover
Paukert, Liba – 1984
This report examines the major trends in women's employment and unemployment over the past two decades in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries. Employment and unemployment trends in the labor force by sex are first considered. The report next examines the growth of the female labor supply and the trends in the…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment, Employment Patterns, Females
Hammack, Floyd Morgan – New York University Education Quarterly, 1982
Examines efforts to bring nursing up to professional status and higher occupational prestige through the development of a unique knowledge base for nursing; upgrading of the nursing curriculum; curriculum emphasis on interpersonal rather than technical aspects of nursing; and attempts to attain greater responsibility for nurses. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Employment, Higher Education
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Feshbach, Murray – Population Bulletin, 1982
Recent trends and differentials among the Soviet Union's 15 republics and major nationalities are reviewed, focusing on fertility, mortality and urbanization, the prospect for labor supplies and military manpower, emigration, and projected population growth to 2000. Estimated at 270 million as of mid-1982, the Soviet population is currently…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Death, Foreign Countries, Labor Supply
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Richter, Lothar – International Labour Review, 1984
This article presents a brief account of some of the new directions that manpower planning has taken in recent years viewed primarily in the light of activities undertaken by the International Labour Office technical cooperation program in this field. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Developing Nations, Information Sources, Labor Force Development
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