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Direct linkGiroux, Sarah C. – Rural Sociology, 2008
High unemployment in many developing countries is intensifying job competition and raising concern for the employment prospects of vulnerable groups, including children of rural parents. This paper examines the trends and sources in employment disadvantage associated with rural parentage in Cameroon. In documenting the sources of inequality, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Rural Urban Differences, Employment Patterns
Peer reviewedBarnes, William F; Jones, Ethel B. – Journal of Human Resources, 1974
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Family Influence, Family Role, Females
Peer reviewedGodwin, Deborah D.; Marlowe, Julia – Rural Sociology, 1990
Examines relationship between employment earnings and farm wives' decisions to work off-farm. Examines effects of wives' human capital, home factors, and labor market on work decisions and earnings. Education, experience, debt, and farm size were stronger influences on wives' decisions than on their earnings variations, once employed. (TES)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns, Family Influence
National Committee for Full Employment, Washington, DC. – 1986
Not only is the official black unemployment rate 2.5 times higher than that of whites, but a significantly greater percentage of the white population is employed compared with blacks (61.6 percent compared with 54.2 percent). Evidence suggests that the real rate of unemployment and underemployment among blacks is 23.5 percent. The situation is…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Employment Level
Griliches, Zvi; Freeman, Richard – 1977
A set of three studies focused primarily on an indepth analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey ("Parnes") data tapes, concentrating particularly on the experience of young men and young women, but collating them also with data on experience and background of other family members available in the parallel surveys. Research was…
Descriptors: Blacks, College Graduates, Cross Sectional Studies, Educational Background
Download full textFreeman, Richard B.; And Others – 1980
This collection of papers on the youth employment problem consists of 15 papers that cover the dimensions, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment and that also focus on problems in measuring the extent of the problem, the dynamic aspects of youth labor force participation, and problems associated with adequately assessing the consequences…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Demography
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed.; Shanahan, Michael J., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 17 papers devoted to the following four aspects of the transition to adulthood: effects of alterations in the structure of opportunity; effects of prior experiences in the family; effects of prior experience in the workplace; and career development and marriage formation during a period of rising inequality. The following papers…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Beliefs
