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Million, Laura – Public Policy Forum, 2010
Despite near-record unemployment rates in the region, southeast Wisconsin's healthcare sector faces a distinctive challenge: finding sufficient numbers of qualified and trained workers to fill current and future job openings. A May 2009 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee analysis found that one out of every four full-time job openings and one out…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Allied Health Personnel, Employment Opportunities, Occupational Surveys
Green, Deborah A. – 1979
Though women are entering the paid work force in increasing numbers, their distribution across occupational categories is far from even. Women workers are clustered in traditional women's work jobs and represent only five percent of the nation's craft workers. In an effort to discover the motivations, experiences, and attitudes of women in…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Choice, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities
Greene, Pamela – 1986
This report provides information on the wages of specific traditional and nontraditional occupations in Rock County, Wisconsin, especially regarding women. The first section identifies "traditionally male" and "traditionally female" occupations. Two tables list occupations and number/percent of women in the occupations. Section…
Descriptors: Career Education, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Harkins, Arthur M.; Woods, Richard G. – 1969
Feelings of Indians (Oneidas, Chippewas, Potawatomis, and Winnebagos) on factors of reservation life (education, community living, employment opportunities, and community problems) were surveyed through attitudinal studies conducted at selected Indian reservations in Wisconsin. Reservation families tend to be large, inadequately educated, living…
Descriptors: American Indians, Attitude Measures, Community Problems, Dropouts
Gerner, Jennifer – 1974
The study examines the economic implications in Wisconsin of the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guideline which requires employers to treat maternity leave as a temporary disability. First, the static cost of the maternity leave guideline to employers is estimated for the State of Wisconsin. Second, some examination of the economic…
Descriptors: Costs, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Employed Women
Blakely, Edward J.; And Others – 1983
Eleven papers on rural economic development cover challenges and opportunities; employment trends affecting nonmetropolitan areas; status of nonmetropolitan women and minorities; case studies of Vermont, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and California; western urban and regional development; economic development in small cities; and rural policy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Census Figures, College Role, Economic Change