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Mahmood, Monowar; Akhter, Salma – International Journal of Training and Development, 2011
Training and development activities in Bangladesh have yet to be systematic and able to fulfil the needs of the economy and industry. The national educational and training system failed to provide adequate knowledge and skills to the workforce. However, private sector organizations are undertaking different initiatives to cope with the industry…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Supply and Demand
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Wilson, Richard D.; Lewis, Steven A.; Murray, Patrick K. – Journal of Rural Health, 2009
Context: There is little information about how increases in the rehabilitation therapist workforce have been distributed over the nation. There is evidence that rural areas continue to face a shortage of trained rehabilitation providers. There has also been little attention to therapist distribution in non-rural settings where health professionals…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Labor Supply, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy
Warunsiri, Sasiwimon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation is composed of three studies on Thai labor markets using a pseudo-panel data set: The first chapter estimates the rate of return to education in Thailand, while treating the endogeneity bias common to estimates from data on individuals. Pseudo-panel data are constructed from repeated cross sections of Labor Force Surveys…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Income, Correlation
Youmans, Tasha Lucas – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to disclose the claims of an impending shortage of librarians in academic libraries as it relates to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The target population of this study was HBCU libraries that had a full-time equivalent enrollment of 3,000 students or more and that were accredited by the Southern…
Descriptors: Librarians, Black Colleges, Academic Libraries, Leadership
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Sohn, Kitae – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2009
One neglected aspect of the teacher labor supply is a recent increase in the proportion of minority teachers. Using the Schools and Staffing Survey and the Teacher Follow-up Survey, one can estimate the relationship between workgroup racial diversity and the turnover of White teachers. This approach finds that young White teachers are more likely…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Minority Group Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Labor Supply
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Babin, Ron; Grant, Kenneth A.; Sawal, Lea – Information Systems Education Journal, 2010
This paper examines the role of influencers in Canadian high school student decisions to pursue Information and Communications Technology (ICT) careers and education. With growing rates of retirements of ICT workers expected over the next 10-15 years, industry representatives are concerned that the shortfall in replacement workers will have a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Information Technology, Career Choice
Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 2010
The labor force is the number of people aged 16 or older who are either working or looking for work. It does not include active-duty military personnel or institutionalized people, such as prison inmates. Quantifying this total supply of labor is a way of determining how big the economy can get. Labor force participation rates vary significantly…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Race, Females, Population Growth
Ras, Gerard J. M. – Online Submission, 2008
This paper seeks to solve the labor shortage in the public accounting profession. It examines why people want to become CPAs, the influence of generational differences on career choices and considers methods to attract and retain CPAs that focus on attracting students, work-life balance issues and alternative work arrangements through career…
Descriptors: Accounting, Career Development, Occupational Aspiration, Labor Supply
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Heim, Bradley T. – Journal of Human Resources, 2009
This paper proposes a new method for estimating family labor supply in the presence of taxes. This method accounts for continuous hours choices, measurement error, unobserved heterogeneity in tastes for work, the nonlinear form of the tax code, and fixed costs of work in one comprehensive specification. Estimated on data from the 2001 PSID, the…
Descriptors: Labor Supply, Taxes, Computation, Error of Measurement
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Beard, Debbie; Schwieger, Dana; Surendran, Ken – Information Systems Education Journal, 2010
Economic conditions over the past year have brought most nations in the world to a state of flux. What once appeared to be a thriving economy has now been in one of the steepest recessions in decades. To get our economy back on track, organizations will need to seek IT investments and solutions that increase productivity, improve security and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Economic Development, Career Choice, Employment Qualifications
Xue, Yu – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Individual variation in labor supply can arise from more than just a choice among discrete occupation groups, especially given the joint process of wage determination and time allocation. Other factors can include differential preferences for earnings, the time length of work and other related occupational attributes. Using data from the Wisconsin…
Descriptors: Wages, Human Capital, Time Management, Career Choice
Pawlowski, Brett – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
One of the great concerns of the business community involves the workforce pipeline: employers want to be sure that new entries into the labor pool, whether from the K-12 or postsecondary systems, are prepared for the jobs that await them. In Philadelphia, business and community leaders have joined forces to give students workplace learning…
Descriptors: Labor Supply, High School Students, Readiness, Work Environment
Sasser, Alicia – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009
The population of recent college graduates has been growing more slowly in New England than in the rest of the United States, and New England states are concerned that an inadequate supply of skilled workers may hamper economic growth. In some sense, New England is a victim of its own success. The region's colleges and universities excel at…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Skilled Workers, Labor Supply, Economic Development
Shierholz, Heidi; Edwards, Kathryn Anne – Economic Policy Institute, 2011
The Great Recession left a crater in the labor market that has been devastating for unemployed Americans of all ages. After more than two years of unemployment at well over 8%, there is a hole of more than 11 million jobs, with average spells of unemployment lasting nearly nine months. The weak labor market has been particularly tough on young…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Public Policy, Labor Market
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Neshchadin, A.; Neshchadina, O.; Tsareva, I. – Russian Education and Society, 2007
In the near future, the factor that may become the greatest hindrance to both industrial growth and to economic growth as a whole is the shortage of labor resources, a shortage that even now is keenly felt in the sphere of production. For this reason, the structure and quality of the labor capital that is being turned out by the system of…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Labor, Foreign Countries, Professional Education
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