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Gulledge, Earl N. – Florida Vocational Journal, 1979
Discusses the representation of women in the labor force and their concentration of employment in a few occupations. Projects that unless changes are made in the ways women are orientated to and prepared for the labor force, employment opportunities will continue to occur in the fields in which women are already well represented. (LRA)
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Employed Women, Employment, Employment Opportunities
High Skills, High Wages. Washington's Comprehensive Plan for Workforce Training and Education, 1998.
Download full textWashington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1998
In Washington, urban centers enjoy rising wages and low employment; rural areas have stagnating wages and high unemployment. Most family-wage job opportunities are in occupations that require some postsecondary education but not a four-year degree. The shortage is most severe in the supply of skilled workers with vocational training. Technology…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blacks, Disabilities, Employment Opportunities
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. General Government Div. – 1992
The predictions in "Workforce 2000" and "Civil Service 2000" were examined with regard to work and workers. Focus was on demographic changes that had occurred and were expected to occur in the civilian and federal labor force and were relevant to federal employment policy formation. Activities included review of demographic data and review of…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections, Ethnic Groups
Plewes, Thomas J. – 1992
Four trends will alter the way the education and training system and other human resource agencies will do business. Themes that reflect them are captured in four words: flexibility, quality, diversity, and scope. The reaction to the current economic downturn remains one of flexibility. Flexibility has emerged as the way in which employers look at…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Career Education, Cultural Pluralism, Dislocated Workers
Rasell, M. Edith; Appelbaum, Eileen – 1992
Past investments in the U.S. work force--early childhood interventions, formal education, and training--have improved productivity and made important contributions both to the wages of individuals and to the growth of the economy. Excellent, comprehensive prenatal care, good nutrition, medical care, and intensive early childhood education programs…
Descriptors: Competition, Continuing Education, Early Intervention, Economic Development
Drewes, Donald W.; Bice, Garry R. – 1981
In order to be maximally effective, an occupational information system (OIS) designed to support vocational education planning, administration, and client services should contain information dealing with energy, women in the work force, productivity, population demographics, equal opportunity, civil rights, coordination and linkage, new and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demand Occupations
