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Daraei, Mina; Mohajery, Artmiz – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The stratification system in India has resulted in the socioeconomic inequality in society and defines women domestic workers as one of the lowest segments of society. This qualitative and quantitative study aims at describing the problems of female domestic workers, the relationship of their employers with them, and exploring the impact of…
Descriptors: Females, Hypothesis Testing, Foreign Countries, Observation
Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2019
In a rapidly changing 21st-century economy with growing competition from abroad, continuing to field a world-leading, skilled workforce is both more essential and more challenging than ever to the mission of delivering increasing prosperity for American families and preserving our nation's economic leadership. The US must therefore confront its…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Competition, Risk, Economic Development
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Lahey, Joanna N. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
This paper examines the labor market effects of state health insurance mandates that increase the cost of employing a demographically identifiable group. State mandates requiring that health insurance plans cover infertility treatment raise the relative cost of insuring older women of child-bearing age. Empirically, wages in this group are…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Labor Market, Health Care Costs, Females
Smith, James P. – 1985
The typical working woman is thought to make 60% of a man's wage, despite increased job skills. Facts prove this perception incorrect. Lack of progress is an artifact of changing labor market characteristics associated with the rapid growth in the numbers of women in the labor market. Low skills, low wage female entrants tend to hold down the…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employment, Employment Experience
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Bartol, Kathryn M.; Bartol, Robert A. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1975
The results of this study, comparing the employment of women in professional and managerial positions in the Soviet Union and the United States, indicate that women in the Soviet Union have made considerably greater progress than American women in the attainment of professional positions. Differences are less in managerial positions. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employment, Females, Managerial Occupations
Spaeth, Joe L. – 1979
Differences in levels and determinants of earnings for men and women college graduates are examined. Perspectives from human capital theory, research on the socioeconomic achievement process, and research on segmented labor markets are used to design models of the determination of earnings. Data are taken from the National Opinion Research Center…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Career Choice, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
Levitin, Teresa – 1971
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that women do not receive occupational rewards commensurate with their achievement, rewards that are allocated to equally qualified men. The analysis of discrimination is directed toward 3 problems: (1) to what extent are women denied occupational rewards that, according to achievement ideology, they…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment, Females, Income
Acs, Gregory; Loprest, Pamela – 2001
This study examines the status of former welfare recipients in the District of Columbia (DC), highlighting families who left Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in the last quarter of 1997 and of 1998. Researchers used data from the DC Department of Human Services and interviews with people who left in 1998. Between 1997-99, DC's cash…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
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
Equity Issues, 1996
This publication contains three fact sheets on gender and employment statistics and their implications. The fact sheets are divided into two sections--statistics and implications. The statistics present the current situation of men and women workers as they relate to occupations, education, and earnings. The implications express suggestions for…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Employed Women, Employment
Christenson, Bruce A. – 1976
A socioeconomic life cycle model consisting of six temporally-ordered stages is used to compare the impact of family background, educational achievement, early occupational achievement, and current family and work role variables on the 1966 earning achievement of a nationally representative sample of black and white married women, ages 30 to 44. A…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employed Women, Employer Attitudes, Employment
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 2001
The third biennial outcome evaluation of the state of Washington's workforce development system analyzed the results of nine of the state's largest workforce development programs plus employer-provided training for participants who left programs from July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998. For reporting results, the nine programs were grouped into three…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Employment
Kimmel, Jean – 1994
Rural workers earn lower wages than nonrural workers, a difference attributed to lower returns to worker characteristics. This paper examines racial and gender differences among rural workers and provides evidence of the structure of wages faced by American Indians. Data were drawn from the 1987 National Medical Expenditures Survey (NMES) and the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison, Employment
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Rose, Stephen J. – 1998
A study tracing the United States economy over the last 40 years reports the skills needed in the changing economy around the turn of the 21st century. Data sources were the March Annual Demographic files of the Current Population Survey for 1970, 1980, 1990, and 1996, and the Public Microdata Sample of the 1960 Census. The study notes the rise of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Business Administration, Clerical Occupations, College Graduates
Wells, Jean A. – 1970
To determine the repercussions of scientific and technological progress on the employment of women and their conditions of work, the Women's Bureau used available statistical data from 1958-68 to study: (1) Employment and Unemployment, (2) Vocational Guidance and Training, (3) Training and Retraining of Older Women, (4) Remuneration, (5) Hours of…
Descriptors: Automation, Career Guidance, Child Care, Employment
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