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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
A study was conducted of a representative sample of 5,467 adult Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) participants who exited the program between July 1, 1985, and June 30, 1986 to determine the occupations in which male and female participants were trained and subsequently placed. Job skill level was classified as higher, moderate, or lower-level…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Females
Eliason, Nancy Carol – School Shop, 1977
A discussion of the changes needed as a result of the rapid increase in women entering, or desiring to enter, the labor force. Areas covered are women's educational and job placement needs, socioeconomic influences, and the need to "unstereotype" technical training and career counseling for female students and to "unstereotype" male and female…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females
Gurin, Gerald – 1970
Covering 5,891 trainees in a nationwide sample of 324 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) classes, this longitudinal study concentrated on how trainee attitudes and motives relate to program completion versus dropping out, and to subsequent job histories. Wage rate, extent or duration of employment, completion, dropout status (for…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bibliographies, Employment Level, Family Status
Doeringer, Peter B.; And Others – 1969
In the 18-month study of the concentrated employment program in Boston, preliminary analysis indicated that program analysis was not possible without first examining the operation of the low-wage labor market. Accordingly, an exploration was made of the dynamic relationship between manpower programs and the economic and social environment in which…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Disadvantaged, Educational Background, Employment Patterns
DELEHANTY, JOHN; MISHNUN, FLORENCE – 1966
DURING THE PERIOD AUGUST 1962-MAY 1965, ABOUT 65,000 PERSONS RECEIVED TRAINING IN SERVICE AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS UNDER THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT (MDTA). MOST PREPARED FOR SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONS, ALTHOUGH MANY OTHERS RECEIVED TESTING, COUNSELING, LITERACY TRAINING, AND OTHER SERVICES THROUGH MULTI-OCCUPATIONAL PROJECTS. OVER HALF THE…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Enrollment
Shlensky, Bertram Charles – 1970
The study examined the individual, job related, and training variables that affected turnover in six NAB-JOBS Federally funded training programs for the disadvantaged. Three different sources of data were used. First, demographic and wage information was obtained on all trainees in five companies in order to run a regression analysis. Second, case…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bibliographies, Blacks
DeVuyst, Lauren; And Others – 1978
This study attempted to identify enrollment patterns of male and female students at Gateway Technical Institute and employment patterns of graduates to determine whether sex role stereotyping was a legitimate concern. The study was based on annually conducted six-month and three-year follow-up studies of graduates and non-completers, and program…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Females
Louisiana State Dept. of Health and Human Resources, Baton Rouge. Bureau for Women. – 1977
This report concerns forty-six Jobs Unlimited placements of women in Louisiana into nontraditional jobs (mostly blue-collar or skilled craft fields) between April 1976 and January 1977. (Jobs Unlimited was a project which informed the public, especially women, of opportunities available in nontraditional employment.) The report researches the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Attitudes, Attitudes, Blue Collar Occupations
Harlan, Sharon; Hackett, Edward J. – 1984
A study examined the effects of participation in three types of federal job programs--classroom training, on-the-job training, and work experience--on the postparticipation employment records of black and white men and women. Using data from the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey, researchers examined the employment records of 3,420 black and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged
Couppie, Thomas; Epiphane, Dominique – Training & Employment, 2002
Findings from the 1992 Generation survey carried out by Creq in 1997 among young people exiting the French school system indicates that work-related disparities encountered by young labor market entrants in France can be characterized according to the worker's gender. Obstacles facing women include the following: (1) risk of unemployment or…
Descriptors: Degrees (Academic), Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Certificates
