Employment and hours movements are compared with patterns in two preceding recessions. (Editor)

Estimated 1970 employment and employment prospects through 1980 are presented for over 250 occupations. (BH)

Although employment rose during 1971, unemployment remained close to 6 percent. (Editor)

Special Labor Force Report examines demographic characteristics of workers responding to questions about their usual" weekly earnings. (Editor)

Discusses the requirements of today's professional training programs in hospital administration to meet the complex demands of today's highly specialized and highly departmentalized hospitals. (AN)

In 1979 labor force and employment growth slowed from the rapid pace of the previous three years. The unemployment rate showed virtually no movement. Discusses employment by sex, race, age, and occupation, reasons for unemployment, and job desires. (JOW)

New legislation should ensure the development of an information system to identify priorities in vocational education related to occupational forecasts. Information on employment needs is essential to good educational planning. (JOW)

Reports the findings of a survey of over 1000 organizations reporting salary rates of engineers. The data are analyzed by industry group, supervisory level and educational level. (CS)

Explores challenges that Ph.D. candidates face from earning the degree to seeking employment. Describes the process of obtaining a doctoral degree, looks at the supply of Ph.D. graduates in the labor force, and tracks the demand for them in both academic and nonacademic jobs. (JOW)

A proposed new age-adjusted measure for calculating labor force participation rate eliminates the effect of changes in the age distribution. According to the new criterion, increases in women's labor force participation from 1960-2000 would have been even greater of shifts in the age distribution had not occurred. (Contains 12 references.) (JOW)

In the Federal Republic of Germany, temporary employment has been extensively regulated, whereas the British government has been more permissive. Despite differences in legislation, the level, distribution, and characteristics of temporary employment and workers are very similar. The number of temporary jobs has not grown as expected. (Author/SK)

Data on existing positions and on career interests in those occupations were compared separately for 656 working adults and 819 high school students; the adult sample was also analyzed by gender. An overall discrepancy appeared between positions and normative interests. Some categories had a high surplus of positions and low interest in them and…

An investigation of the comparability of union membership statistics in the United States and 11 foreign countries and concludes that international comparisons should be made with caution. Although figures published by each country are useful indicators of broad trends, they should not be used to compare levels of unionization. (Author)