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Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. – 1973
This directory lists, alphabetically by state and city, the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the organizations and individuals who are able to reach minority groups to tell them about job training and job opportunities. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, the Bureau of Indian…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Directories, Employment Opportunities
Mason, John Dancer – 1969
To test the "stoop labor" hypotheses that the supply response of domestic migrants to increased wages would be inelastic, this study examined wage adjustment in Michigan agriculture after 1964, supply response to wage changes in the pickle industry, and acreage decline and capital substitution following the termination of the bracero…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Braceros, Economic Research, Farm Labor
Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC. – 1971
This annotated bibliography on manpower planning and utilization covers materials received in the U. S. Civil Service Commission Library from 1968 through 1970. References are listed in sections by subject, such as manpower forecasting, policies and methods, planning, utilization, shortages, changes, jobs, and skills. No indexes are provided. (MF)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Employment Projections, Labor Force Development
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Ishi, Tomoji – Amerasia Journal, 1988
Nurses comprise the dominant groups of Korean immigrant professionals. A world systems approach, using the idea of migrants flowing from periphery nations to core nations, is used to explain the migration of these and other professionals. The concept of national class conflict underlies the power relations of this phenomenon. (VM)
Descriptors: Exchange Programs, Immigrants, Korean Americans, Labor Supply
Abella, Manolo I. – Skillstech, 1985
The author analyzes some issues on the cost of emigration to the countries of origin and some policy implications. Attention is focused on how the supply of skilled workers is affected by migration. The article also discusses distortion of the free market and presents a profile of Asian contract workers. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Human Capital, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
Miels, Gayle, Ed. – 2003
Once generally perceived as a service for working parents, child care is now recognized as an early education setting where children learn skills and behaviors for life. The child care and early education industry is also a powerful economic force that experienced significant growth in the past three decades in response to family, economic, and…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Cost Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education
Horne, James; And Others – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1972
An Analysis of farming opportunities for Vocational Agriculture graduates and rural youth is presented to assist in counseling students toward optimal educational and occupational goals. (Author)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Educational Objectives, Employment Opportunities
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Seaborg, Eric – Futurist, 1983
Jobs are disappearing at an ever-increasing rate, while new careers are emerging. At the World Future Society's recent conference on "Working Now and in the Future," over 600 people met to consider how to cope with the many challenges of the changing world of work. (IS)
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Employment, Employment Opportunities
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Briquets, Sergio Diaz – International Migration Review, 1983
Examines principal demographic determinants of recent Cuban emigration and discusses how these demographic variables interact with other social, economic, and political determinants. Suggests that Cuban labor migration is more responsive to demographic factors than some theorists assume. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Cubans, Demography, Foreign Countries, Housing Needs
Sinclair, Michael – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1980
Growing youth unemployment problems in Canada have resulted in the need for government intervention. The Ontario Career Action program was created in order to provide a youth internship program within government agencies that would allow relevant work experience for young people. (JN)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Labor Supply
Dixon, Heriberto – Migration Today, 1980
Massive emigration from Jamaica of professionals, technicians, managers and administrators, and skilled workers has resulted in a critical shortage of a well-educated work force. If present political and economic trends continue, this problem is likely to remain for some time to come. (ST)
Descriptors: Administrators, Demand Occupations, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development
Mannel, Charles H.; Heller, Jean E. – Journal of College Placement, 1980
Discusses the oversupply of language graduates. One solution is a double major and a shift from a literary orientation to one applicable to business or professional life. The audiolingual approach at the American Graduate School of International Management emphasizes the understanding of language structure. (JAC)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, College Students, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential
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Thornton, Robert J.; Weintraub, Andrew R. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1979
This study analyzes the effects that state licensing requirements have had on barber supply and on new entrants into the trade over the period 1969-1973. The authors found that the minimum education requirements, barber school hours required, and months of apprenticeship required have had little or no significant effect. (MF)
Descriptors: Barbers, Certification, Educational Needs, Labor Supply
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Chaney, Elsa M. – International Migration Review, 1979
This article discusses international migration as an economic and political concern, comments on recent literature dealing with social aspects of migration, and introduces the articles which follow in this special journal issue dedicated to Caribbean migration to New York. (MC)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Climate, Immigrants
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Cain, Glen C.; Dooley, Martin D. – Journal of Political Economy, 1976
Examines the supply of labor of married women in the labor force. A "one-period, lifetime model, which is intended to explain long-run behavior" of women is quantified using data from the 1970 census. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Census Figures, Demography, Economic Research
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