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Rosenfeld, Peri; Moses, Evelyn B. – Nursing and Health Care, 1988
A systematic collection and review of newspaper, journal, and newsletter articles related to the nursing shortage were undertaken. Data were analyzed for several variables, including geographic region, type of article, and type of facility. (CH)
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Opportunities, Labor Demands, Labor Supply
Weaver, Charles N. – Personnel Journal, 1974
Some of the reported efforts made and some of the plans businessmen have developed to improve the employment status of the disadvantaged are described. An indirect benefit of those programs is the general improvement in the utilization and development of the regular work force. (AG)
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Disadvantaged, Labor Force, Labor Supply
Braddock, Douglas – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 1983
Defines a labor shortage, examines evidence of a current engineer shortage and of an adequate supply and the assumptions that lead to a projected shortage. (SK)
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections, Engineers, Labor Market
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Maret, Elizabeth G. – Monthly Labor Review, 1982
Research tested the hypothesis that the overall lifetime supply of labor provided by mature women is related to their health, or their subjective assessment thereof, and a corollary--that the supply of labor by Black women is more affected by self-rated health than by that of Whites. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employed Women, Health, Health Conditions
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Dickerson, Suzanne Steffan; Campbell-Heider, Nancy – Nursing Outlook, 1994
Critical social theory is used to analyze the American Medical Association's proposal to deal with the nursing shortage by creating registered care technologists. The discussion highlights strategies nurses can use in future efforts to support health care reform. (JOW)
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Labor Supply, Nurses, Political Influences
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Fechter, Alan – Monthly Labor Review, 1993
There is not enough evidence to conclude either that many college graduates are employed in jobs that do not require a degree or that there is a shortage of college graduates in the labor market. (JOW)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Labor Market, Labor Needs, Labor Supply
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Neal, Derek – Journal of Political Economy, 2004
Existing work suggests that black-white gaps in potential wages are much larger among men than women and further that black-white differences in patterns of female labor supply are unimportant. However, panel data on wages and income sources demonstrate that the modal young black woman who does not engage in market work is a single mother…
Descriptors: Wages, Young Adults, Mothers, Labor Supply
Richardson, Sue – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
In 2004 NCVER invited proposals from a consortia of researchers to address questions relating to changing work skill needs and work organisation arrangements and their implications for the vocational education and training sector. The National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University, and the Centre for Post-compulsory Education and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Employment Patterns
Zurn, Pascal; Dumont, Jean-Christophe – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
This paper examines health workforce and migration policies in New Zealand, with a special focus on the international recruitment of doctors and nurses. The health workforce in New Zealand, as in all OECD countries, plays a central role in the health system. Nonetheless, maybe more than for any other OECD country, the health workforce in New…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Physicians, Nurses, Immigration
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Martin, Philip L. – 1986
This paper finds that the ready availability of illegal-immigrant workers from Mexico in major industries in the Southwest region of the United States is having far-reaching and often unanticipated consequences for patterns of investment, employment, and business competition. It reviews the displacement of U.S. workers by illegal immigrants in…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Labor Economics, Labor Supply, Undocumented Immigrants
CALL, DAVID – 1961
THE NUMBER OF HIRED FARM WORKERS IS DECREASING WITH THE INCREASED USE OF LABORSAVING FARM MACHINERY AND TECHNOLOGY WHICH ALLOWS GREATER OUTPUT PER WORKER. THE LOW WAGE SCALE PREVALENT IN AGRICULTURE IS THE MAJOR CAUSE OF THE FARM LABOR PROBLEM. WAGE RATES ARE DIFFICULT TO MEASURE ACCURATELY BECAUSE OF A GREAT DIVERSITY IN METHODS OF PAYMENT AND…
Descriptors: Farm Labor, Income, Labor Problems, Labor Supply
1967
DURING THE FIRST SIX YEARS OF THE 1960 DECADE THE NUMBER OF FOREIGN WORKERS OF ALL NATIONALITIES EMPLOYED ON UNITED STATES FARMS HAS BEEN RAPIDLY DECLINING. DURING 1966, EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN CONTRACT WORKERS AVERAGED 5,100 WORKERS, DOWN 97 PERCENT FROM 145,800 IN 1959, THE HIGHEST AVERAGE IN HISTORY. THE SHARPEST DECREASE OCCURRED AFTER THE…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics, Farm Labor, Foreign Workers
Johnson, Donald W.; Thompson, Mary B. – 1970
The 49 studies contained in this volume, which were originally published and distributed as individual State Dentist Manpower Reports, are the first reports to be drawn from survey data gathered through a national data compilation system designed to collect essential information on the dental manpower supply from all licensed dentists at the time…
Descriptors: Background, Dental Assistants, Dentists, Individual Characteristics
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Agarwal, Vinod B.; Yochum, Gilbert R. – Economics of Education Review, 1987
Foreign born professionals, especially those educated in the U.S., have become increasingly important to U.S. labor markets. This paper assesses the general effect of the Eilberg Act (1976) and subsequent U.S. Department of Labor implementations on new seed professionals' potential immigration patterns. The act could diminish opportunities for…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, Higher Education, Labor Market, Labor Supply
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Borjas, George J. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1987
An analysis of 1980 census data reveals that immigrants tend to substitute for some labor market groups and complement others. The effects of immigrant supply on the earnings of native-born men is small. However, increases in the immigrant supply have a sizeable impact on the earnings of immigrants themselves. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Immigrants, Income, Labor Economics, Labor Supply
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