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Beatty, Richard W. – 1972
Over a two-year period this study examined the relationship of two levels of supervision with both the job performance and weekly earnings of the hard-core unemployed (HCU). First- and second-level supervisors were measured on consideration, initiating structure, and social insight. After six months on the job the HCU's perceptions of their…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Employment, Job Performance, Job Satisfaction
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Mroz, Thomas A.; Savage, Timothy H. – Journal of Human Resources, 2006
Using NLSY data, we examine the long-term effects of youth unemployment on later labor market outcomes. Involuntary unemployment may yield suboptimal investments in human capital in the short run. A theoretical model of dynamic human capital investment predicts a rational "catch-up" response. Using semiparametric techniques to control for the…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Youth, Labor Market, Human Capital
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1996
Labor market outcomes of 25- to 64-year-olds were examined as a function of sex, prose proficiency level, and highest educational level attained. The data for 1992 confirmed that educational attainment and literacy level are both positively associated with higher annual earnings and lower unemployment rates and that literacy is positively…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Employment Level
Gordon, Edmund W., Ed. – 1969
"Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap" by Gertrude Goldberg and Carol Lopate, which makes up the contents of this issue of the IRCD Bulletin, critically reviews income maintenance schemes, social insurance and public assistance programs, family allowances, the negative income tax, and full employment proposals. Of these plans to end poverty the…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment, Financial Support, Guaranteed Income
Flanagan, Robert J. – 1974
The main thrust of the report is an analysis of racial unemployment differentials in the context of received theories of racial discrimination. Noting that the average duration of unemployment is similar for white and black males, the analytical emphasis is on the flow of new unemployment which is decomposed into turnover flows and conditional…
Descriptors: Age, Age Groups, Environmental Influences, Labor Market
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Sandell, Steven H. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1980
Unemployed women substantially reduce their reservation wages as the period of their unemployment progresses. Also, recipients of unemployment insurance are shown to ask for wages that are substantially higher than those asked for by other unemployed women. (CT)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Job Application, Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance
Lang, Kevin – 1995
The desirability of raising the minimum wage long revolved around just one question: the effect of higher minimum wages on the overall level of employment. An even more critical effect of the minimum wage rests on the composition of employment--who gets the minimum wage job. An examination of employment in eating and drinking establishments…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Dislocated Workers, Employment Patterns
Neumark, David – 1995
A study described the effects of minimum wages on teenagers by using individual-level panel data on school and work transitions of teenagers. Panel data from 1979-92 measuring transitions among alternative employment and enrollment activities of teenagers were obtained from matched Current Population Surveys data sets. Findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Research, Employment Patterns, Enrollment
Fallick, Bruce; Currie, Janet – 1993
A study used individual-level data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the effects of changes in the federal minimum wage on teenage employment. Individuals in the sample were classified as either likely or unlikely to be affected by these increases in the federal minimum wage on the basis of their wage rates and industry of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Research, Employment Patterns, Enrollment
Thomas, Jeffrey – Humanities, 1993
Reports on a U.S. Department of Education study of the employment and salary status of 1989-90 bachelor's degree recipients. Finds that college graduates with humanities and history majors are not faring as well as their counterparts in other fields as they enter the labor force. Includes two figures and one table comparing humanities graduates…
Descriptors: Emerging Occupations, Higher Education, History, Humanities
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Standing, Guy; Sziraczki, Gyorgy, Eds. – International Labour Review, 1991
Nine articles discuss the effect of economic and social upheaval on employment and wages in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, the USSR, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics, Foreign Countries
Mishel, Lawrence; Bernstein, Jared – 1992
Using a wide variety of data on family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth, and poverty, this book closely examines the impact of the economy on the living standards of the United States. An executive summary gives an overview of the economic realities that characterize the state of the working nation. Other introductory materials include…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Competition, Economic Change, Economic Climate
National Commission on Working Women, Washington, DC. – 1988
This report examines the situation of the one-half of the nation's nine million working poor who are female. It begins by looking at just who the working poor are. Two areas of study are education levels and types of jobs. The discussion then shifts to minimum wage earners and their characteristics, the current status of the minimum wage, and the…
Descriptors: Adults, Advocacy, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1985
This Congressional report contains the testimony given at a hearing pertaining to passage of the Youth Employment Opportunity Wage Act of 1985. (The act, which would terminate in September 1987, would authorize an employer to pay a subminimum, "youth employment opportunity wage" to a person under 20 years of age.) Included among those…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Federal Legislation
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Becker, Brian E.; Hills, Stephen M. – Journal of Human Resources, 1983
Drawing on the Young Men's Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys, this study examines the long-run effects of teenage labor market experience on subsequent adult wages. The study expands on earlier work by considering the effects of both unemployment and job mobility during the period of transition from school to work. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Career Change, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Labor Economics
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