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Sandell, Steven H. – 1978
To test the economic theory of job search and the rationality of job search behavior by unemployed married women, the importance of reservation wages (or wages requested for employment) was studied for its effect on the duration of unemployment and its relationship to the subsequent rate of pay upon reemployment. Models were established to explain…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Economic Factors, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities
Download full textWomen's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2000
This guide is designed to provide women job seekers with tools to help them obtain the job and salary they want and deserve. It begins with information about the labor market in general. These sources of information about jobs are described: networking; private employers; one-stop career centers; America's Job Bank; federal, state, and local…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Interviews, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Lindner, A. Frances; Mellen-Sullivan, Darcy – 1987
This workbook is one component of the Career Survival Kit prepared for teenage parents in Wisconsin. The workbook helps students identify their skills and interests, choose an occupation, plan for a career, and discuss issues of concern to them as parents. The workbook emphasizes the need to plan for the future. Activities explore the concepts of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning
Mississippi Employment Security Commission, Jackson. Dept. of Research & Statistics. – 1978
There has been a rapid increase in Mississippi women's participation in the labor force, but female participation still lags behind male participation. The 1960s witnessed dramatic increases in younger women's participation. The trend is expected to continue into the late 1970s. Annual 1977 averages showed women made up almost 40% of Mississippi's…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Age, Career Opportunities, Census Figures
Klein, Lawrence R.; Ghozeil, Susan – 1979
This volume makes available to a broad readership dissertation findings from social and behavioral sciences research supported by the Employment and Training Administration. Each of twenty-one dissertations, rewritten in the vernacular, is presented in condensed form for primarily nonacademic readers. These popularized selections, which have been…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Content Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Factors
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1992
This guide presents general information about protection and services provided under federal law that affect women's rights when seeking employment, while working, and when retiring. Section 1 discusses how women can assert their job rights. Section 2 focuses on getting the job. It considers federal laws that provide for employment services and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Apprenticeships, Comparable Worth
