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Bland, Laurel L. – 1970
Alaska is in the paradoxical position of having more jobs available than people, and at the same time maintaining one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. This report discusses the nature and skills of the unemployed and underemployed, and presents tables of demographic information. While a fair percentage of Alaskan native youth…
Descriptors: American Indians, Demography, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Eskimos
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Mason, Geoff – Journal of Education and Work, 2002
In Britain, the retailing, computer services, transportation, and communications industries have hired increasing numbers of college graduates, both because of demand for skills and oversupply of graduates. This has contributed to temporary and permanent job upgrading through expansion of tasks and responsibilities in certain jobs. (Contains 14…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Development
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White, Stephen – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1987
The Skyline Vocational Training Project (Great Falls, Montana) is a vocational skills training model that prepares mildly disabled students to become competitively employed in locally-referenced entry-level occupations, while the High-Visibility Low-Incidence Model of Supported Employment is designed for severely disabled students who are unlikely…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Job Skills, Mild Disabilities, Models
Guzzardi, Walter, Jr. – Fortune, 1976
The problems caused by increasing production of college graduates and the economy's fluctuating demand for degree holders in the job market are described. Methods for teaching more marketable skills in colleges based on a cooperative association between business and education are discussed. (MS)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Cooperative Education, Educational Improvement, Employment Potential
Skill Achievement Inst., Lake Success, NY. – 1969
This is a report on 18 months of work done in an experimental and demonstration project designed to develop ways to meet in-plant skill needs by upgrading the job skills of entry level (mostly minority group) workers and by improving capacity for better employee-supervisor relationships. Project activity took place in three cities--Newark,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Employers
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Livingston, D. W. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1987
This paper explores how schooling reproduces the general class structure of the Ontario workforce, particularly the division between mental and manual labor. Data from a 1984 Ontario survey of self-reported job entry requirements and educational attainments and of the congruence between requirements and attainments are analyzed. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Employment Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Rowley, Thomas D.; Freshwater, David – Rural Development Perspectives, 1999
Highlights recent research findings on the status of rural southern workers and their readiness for the future. Presents information on poverty, undereducation, underemployment, and racial inequality in rural southern areas. Examines two avenues of action: helping workers get the education and skills they need and helping workers find suitable…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Educational Needs, Employment Opportunities
Chevalier, Arnaud; Lindley, Joanne – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2007
During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure for the appropriateness of the match between…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Salary Wage Differentials, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Special Occupational Services. – 1971
This annual report is the ninth in a series of reports concerning the activities of the New York State Education Department in the manpower training effort, and it offers a narrative description and rationale of the activities of the Bureaus of Manpower Program Development and Manpower Program Supervision during 1971. The goals of the manpower…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Evening Coll. – 1976
During the academic year 1975-1976, a program for near-illiterate adults was designed and carried out at The Johns Hopkins University, Evening College and Summer Session. The goal was to help persons with severe reading problems obtain necessary skills to enter the world of work or move up in the world. Counseling, both group and individual, was…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Counseling Services
Bobbitt, J. Frank; Booth, Jim – 1974
The job readiness workshop was designed to offer participants improved methods of finding employment. The manual is intended to be used with small groups of unemployed or underemployed individuals in a workshop setting. The workshop's materials are designed as a resource unit, not as a teaching plan. The attempt has been to present desirable…
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Guides, Instructional Materials, Job Application
Neal, Derek – 1996
A study attempted to identify low-wage workers in the United States by providing a statistical portrait of all workers who made less than $6.25 per hour in 1993. Data for the analysis were gathered from a cross-section of the Merged Outgoing Rotation Group File--Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1993 and panel data from the National Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Skills, Employment Problems, Females
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Special Occupational Services. – 1973
The report presents a review of institutional manpower training programs conducted in the State during the 1973 Federal fiscal year. Two major manpower training objectives are used for the basis of the report: to provide education, supportive services, and training opportunities for unemployed and underemployed individuals and to provide education…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs
Worthington, Robert M. – 1972
Teenage unemployment is a critical manpower problem. Youth most severely affected are minority group members and those with limited education. Many barriers stand in the way of their obtaining steady jobs: lack of training and experience, job movement, child labor laws, minimum wage standards, and competition for jobs from veterans and middle-aged…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Opportunities, Career Planning
Nation, William C. – 1976
This paper reviews existing manpower training programs in light of the dual labor market theory, and discusses the implications for community colleges in addressing the needs of the unemployed within their service areas. The dual labor market theory postulates that there are two distinct spheres of employment: a primary labor market in which…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Individual Development, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
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