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Dumbrell, Tom – 1998
Manufacturing in Australia is a large and diverse industry, employing more than 1.1 million people. Despite its decline in relative importance (from providing 16.3% of jobs to providing 13.4%), it is still the second largest employing industry. Manufacturing makes up the major component of exports, accounting for 51 percent in 1994-95. Over the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Dumbrell, Tom – 1998
Mining is the second smallest industry division in terms both of employment and number of business units in Australia. Employment accounts for less than 1 percent of all jobs. The outlook for employment is clouded by continuing uncertainty in Australia's main Asian markets and by the longer-term impact of environmental concerns. Mining industry…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Coal, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns
Redovich, Dennis W. – 1999
Observations of schools and the economies of various countries and regions (including the Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, and the United States) suggest that the following generally accepted principles may be called hoaxes: (1) great numbers of new emerging jobs of the future will require much higher skill levels for workers; (2)…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Educational Benefits, Educational Change
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Hossler, Donald R. – College and University, 1982
A study of Los Angeles area high school seniors examined college-bound and noncollege-bound students' choice of specific educational program, the importance of future earnings in program choice, and perceptions of income differentials between high school and college graduates. A positive relationship between perceived economic benefits and college…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Attendance, College Bound Students, College Graduates
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Groat, H. Theodore; And Others – Sociology and Social Research, 1982
A sample (750) of recent graduates from a medium-sized midwestern university illustrates the process of sex stratification through sex-linked choices in the area of undergraduate study and career paths. Analyses, incorporating gender, graduation cohort, area of study, family status, and type of work, document significant income differentials…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Economic Status, Employment Level
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White, Charles S. – CUPA Journal, 1990
A study of 219 faculty at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga investigated highest degree held, discipline, experience at the university, academic rank, tenure status, administrative positions held, contract length, and gender in relation to salary and other compensation. Results suggest that gender-based discrimination continues and…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Case Studies, College Faculty, Compensation (Remuneration)
Collison, Michele N-K – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
Data on college and university administrators' salaries in 1993-94 are presented by institution type (doctoral, comprehensive, baccalaureate, two-year) and various administrative positions. Analysis indicates that public institution raises were higher than those at private institutions. Little change in the trend is anticipated in the near future.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, College Administration, College Presidents
Haworth, Karla – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998
Changes are occurring in college-level English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction. An accrediting body has been created for ESL programs to begin using uniform standards to evaluate varied programs. ESL teachers, many teaching part-time in more than one institution, are eager for better recognition of their profession, which has suffered in…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Bilingual Education, College Faculty
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Probert, Belinda – Australian Universities' Review, 1998
Reports a study of pay equity among both academic and nonacademic staff at 18 Australian universities. Addresses topics including employment level, tenure (faculty), age differences, years in higher education, family needs, employment qualifications, career progression, job content, and research productivity (faculty). (MSE)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Career Ladders, Careers, College Faculty
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Valian, Virginia. – Academe, 1998
Examines cognitive processes that distort judgments about men and women thus perpetuating discriminatory practices in the professions and in academe. Cites studies of salary, rank, and tenure discrepancies and notes various unarticulated beliefs about gender that present obstacles to women's advancement. Affirmative action and institutional…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Educational Environment
Berryman, Sue E. – 1995
The scope and effects of employer-sponsored training in the United States were examined to determine the following: how economic and technological change interact with employers' responses to the new environment's demands; how employer-sponsored training affects the functional distribution of educational attainment, productivity, and earnings; and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis
Crawford, David L.; And Others – 1995
The relationship between school characteristics and labor market outcomes was examined through a literature review and an econometric analysis of the effects of various characteristics of the schooling experience on students' labor market performance after high school. Data from the National Center on Education Statistics' longitudinal survey of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Johnson County Community Coll., Overland Park, KS. Office of Institutional Research. – 1994
Findings from annual follow-up studies of career program completers at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) were summarized for the classes of 1988-89 through 1992-93. Approximately one in three JCCC students has declared a career-related educational objective since the college's inception, and the number and variety of career programs has…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Zeglen, Marie E.; Schmidt, Edward J. – 1992
A study was done of salary determinants for academic librarians in light of the increasing trend to include academic and librarian faculty in joint bargaining units for compensation. The study analyzed position, gender, faculty status, rank, tenure, experience, and academic preparation as salary determinants for 469 librarians at 25 state colleges…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Academic Rank (Professional), Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
McDaniel, Sue; Riley, Dee Ann – 1992
Management information system (MIS) data about women's participation in Missouri's job training system funded under Title II-A of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in program year 1992 were analyzed. Analysis of data from Missouri's 15 service delivery areas (SDAs) established the following: 75% of the state's 4,598 female JTPA participants…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Legislation, Educational Trends, Employment Level
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