Employment and the labor force both expanded during 1972; the unemployment rate went down but still averaged 5.6 percent. (MF)

States that the U.S. economy is expected to grow by 30 percent between 1988 and 2000 and that the labor force will increase by 16 percent. Summarizes trends for the economy, the labor force, industries, and occupations and also looks at some implications of the projections. (Author)

This chapter describes techniques and projects that most institutions need if they are to be viable in an increasingly competitive labor market. The authors assert that institutional researchers who increase their involvement in workforce development initiatives can become more valuable to their institution.

The Department of Labor's annual report on employment and training requirements, resources, and utilization and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's annual report on facilities utilization and employment and training program coordination are major contents of this report. Chapter I gauges the impact of the year's key economic trends…

This book discusses how the dearth of manpower policies at Federal, State, and local levels has resulted in weak programs that lack comprehensiveness in meeting occupational demands and efficiency in developing human resources. The author delineates the role of education in the development of manpower needs in our highly technical society, and…

In order to meet the needs of educational planners this study was made to determine present and projected employment opportunities in New Jersey in natural resources and agriculture in respect to: (1) full, seasonal, and part-time employment, (2) desirable level of education for specific jobs, (3) salary characteristics, and (4) descriptive labor…

This first part of a comprehensive study designed to provide decision makers with an understanding of the needs and capabilities of occupational education in New England focuses on the number of individuals, especially dropouts, in need of occupational education and training as compared to the capabilities of the various institutions to meet such…

This monograph on Negro employment in the Memphis labor market is part of a federally sponsored project on Negro employment in the South which seeks to present the latest information on both the racial employment patterns and the factors responsible for perpetuating or for changing those patterns. As part of a doctoral dissertation, a comparison…

Presents an interview with Elaine Chao, United States Secretary of Labor, in which she suggests that, because of the information-based economy, education is a more vital element in the training of America's workforce than it has ever been. Discusses an initiative that will use high-tech tools to give Americans with disabilities greater access to…

Occupational distributions for sex and race comparisons for areas of Louisiana are examined through an index of dissimilarity, D, a measure of the percentage of workers who must change occupational categories for the two compared percentage occupational distributions to be the same. D decreased for all comparisons. (Author)

Although it seems plausible that a decline in the youth population would lead to a shortage of youth labor, this conclusion is based on unfounded assumptions and anecdotal accounts. Employment opportunities for teenagers are declining faster than the teenage population. (LHW)

The author documents the increasing number of Hispanic workers in the work force between 1980 and 1987. This population accounts for approximately one-fifth of employment growth in the United States. The author states that Hispanic women have shown the biggest gains; their employment levels have grown at 250 percent the rate of other women's. (CH)

A new generation of workers is entering the work force. The "computer babies," fiercely independent, will demand autonomy on the job and will brush aside many of the values of the older baby-boom generation. (RM)

More than half of discouraged workers have not looked for jobs in more than a year. While some return to work or resume job searching, the majority have rare contacts with the job market. (SK)

Bureau of Labor Statistics' 1980 estimates were on target for professional and service occupations, fairly accurate for farm, craft, clerical, and sales occupations, but significantly off the mark for managerial and administrative, nonfarm labor, and operative occupations. (JOW)