Looks at where academic careers are and will be going in light of the failed predictions of academicians themselves. Argues that academicians find themselves in a crisis of providing sufficient faculty members to meet the demands created by forces that were not foreseen and are not fully understood. (RS)

Productivity growth and the educational requirements of future jobs are important issues for the remainder of the century. (Author)

Discusses factors affecting employment, describes assumptions used in making the projections, and discusses general trends. Includes a breakdown by occupation that lists cluster, estimated employment 1992, percentage of change 1992-2005, numerical change 1992-2005, and employment prospects. (JOW)

Job searches by both the unemployed and employed jobseekers are studied through an empirical structural job search model using a choice variable of search intensity. The resulting influence of search intensity on the labor market transitions is analyzed to give the estimation results of the search and the impact of the benefit level on the search…

For more than a decade, the United States has produced more new jobs than most other industrialized nations--nearly 20 million new jobs during 1973-1984. However, none of the aggregate numbers reveals anything about the types of jobs created or how much they pay. The following facts are pertinent: (1) compared to the period 1973-1979, the net new…

Drawing from literature on technological advances, economic trends, and employment and labor market projections, this paper provides an overview of trends and their implications for California. After briefly analyzing the characteristics and effects of the information age, the paper examines the growth and development of high technology…

Environmental standards and programs, rather than eliminating jobs, are currently significant sources of employment and will become major generators of new jobs in the next few years. The number of jobs created to renew and protect the environment topped one million in 1975 and may double by 1976. (BT)

The article compares unemployment, employment, and other labor market indicators in the United States with the available indicators of the eight nations of Canada, Australia, Japan, France, West Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, and Italy. (Author)

Staffing needs planning, as distinct from workforce planning, is the systematic estimation of the actions personnel managers must take to provide the required workforce in an organization. This handbook focuses on the pivotal aspects of staffing needs planning, including estimation of future vacancies and analysis and projection of employee…

Greater concern with unemployment in recent years has increased the need for accurate forecasting of future labor market requirements, in order to plan for vocational education and other manpower programs. However, past emphasis has been placed on labor demand, rather than supply, even though either side by itself is useless in determining skill…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics national industry-occupational matrix was used to project employment for 1975 by occupation and industry for Minnesota and several areas within the state. In addition to the 1975 projections, the report provides statewide and area employment data for 1960 and 1968, by occupation and industry, along with the…

Describes the growth of the female civilian labor force in the Nation from 1950 to 1975 and analyzes the upward shift in the civilian labor force participation rate from a flow perspective to determine the role of various factors that have produced the rise in the civilian labor force participation rate of women. (SH)

Presents the results of a survey of program directors of the 210 school media preparation programs in the United States and a sampling of school system personnel directors. This study was conducted to assess the national employment situation for school media specialists in 1986 and project employment trends into the near future. (MES)

Indicates that the healthy economy is providing multiple opportunities for graduating mechanical engineers (including more job offers and higher pay) and that greatly expanded funding of military-defense work and computer applications are contributing to this growth. Data on mechanical engineering degrees granted, salaries, and industry growth are…

The number of jobs requiring four or more years of college education is projected to grow by 45 percent over the 1982-1995 period, compared to 25 percent for all jobs. (JOW)