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Wendling, Wayne R. – 1984
In 1982 plant closings in the United States affected approximately 1 percent of the country's manufacturing facilities and 1 percent of its manufacturing labor force. Included among the reasons cited for plant closings were low productivity, high wages, and inflexible work rules. Given the nature of the reasons for plant closings and the magnitude…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Business Responsibility, Case Studies, Collective Bargaining
Keyserling, Mary Dublin – 1984
Although the role of women in the American economy has come a long way in the years since 1950, women have made relatively little progress in quite a number of areas. In the years during and after World War II, women's employment has increased significantly, with married women being the ones who have entered the work force most rapidly. Despite…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Economic Status
Reed, Naomi V.; And Others – 1984
A series of follow-up studies were conducted to examine the employment, education, and training activities of persons who had taken the General Educational Development (GED) Tests in the spring of 1980. The first two studies, conducted in the fall of 1981 and the spring of 1982, were nationwide surveys that analyzed the survey responses of 458 and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Benefits, Employment Level
Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1984
The Composite Indicator of Changes (CIC) in average salaries and wages paid by public school systems is designed to reflect overall changes, to compare salary trends among various categories of personnel, and to analyze salary trends in an individual school system and among groups of school systems. Annual updates of the CIC are computed from data…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrators, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Washington, DC. Data User Services Div. – 1984
The "Participation in Adult Education" machine-readable data file (MRDF) is prepared triennially for the Center for Education Statistics (CES) by the Bureau of the Census, as a supplement to its regular "Current Population Survey" (sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics). Previous specialized surveys in this series have…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Courses, Educational Background
Cardenas, Gilbert – 1981
Although the distribution of income has become more equitable for some groups, inequitable distribution has affected the poor, minorities, and women most adversely. Income inequality and poverty may be attributed to ability differences, education and training, job tastes, property ownership, market power, and discrimination. In economics, the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Economic Development, Economic Opportunities
Weseman, Marcus – 1980
The United States Departments of Energy (DOE) and Labor (DOL) have cosponsored a number of demonstration programs to train economically disadvantaged migrant and seasonal farmworkers for energy-related technical and skilled occupations. A descriptive study of the first DOE/DOL demonstration was made to determine the impact of training on…
Descriptors: Adults, Agricultural Laborers, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
On Campus with Women, 1982
News concerning developments at colleges and universities that affect women is presented, along with an interview with the Executive Director of the Project on the Status and Education of Women, Bernice R. Sandler, regarding the project's major accomplishments and activities over the past 11 years and insights into the changing status of women at…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Career Choice, Civil Rights Legislation, College Admission
Doering, Zahava D.; And Others – 1982
As part of a project to improve the quality of survey data and to link survey data to policy formulation and research needs in the military, a study was made of more than 54,000 men and women military officers and enlisted personnel in 1978-79. The survey sought information about their personal preferences and attitudes, past behavior, and career…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Career Choice, Career Development
Fitzgerald, Louise F. – 1985
An enormous body of literature illuminates various facets of the relationship between education and employment. Views of the proper role of education have ranged from cultural transmission to societal transformation and individual development, to the current belief that it prepares for transition to adulthood, i.e., the movement from school to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Employment, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Cincinnati Public Schools, OH. Dept. of Research and Development. – 1974
The purpose of this instructional "pac" is to provide individuals with the skills and information needed when seeking employment. The curriculum, designed for ten sessions, is intended to be taught by volunteers from the local community, business, industry and the civil service. Different activities are used in the class sessions and include…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Community Involvement, Curriculum Guides, Employment
Burkheimer, Graham J.; Novak, Thomas P. – 1981
A summary is presented of some of the results from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School of 1972, which examined the vocational activities, plans, aspirations, and attitudes of young adults after they leave high school, along with their postsecondary experiences and family and community activities. By October 1979, about one-fourth of…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Bachelors Degrees, College Attendance, College Bound Students
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1980
This report examines selected public sector direct job creation schemes that were in operation in 1977-1978 in Canada, Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Based on responses to a questionnaire and discussions with officials in the five countries, the information presented in the report is not intended to evaluate any one…
Descriptors: Age, Comparative Analysis, Economic Status, Educational Attainment
Hallak, Jacques; And Others – 1980
This volume contains four studies covering various approaches and having different scopes for studying the problem of access to jobs and the role of education and training as criteria for recruitment. The first study, on the metropolitan area of Panama, covers all sectors of activity. It is based on a questionnaire administered to 80 companies to…
Descriptors: Adults, Developing Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning
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California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1981
Data for 1981-1981 on faculty salaries in California state colleges and universities are presented and interpreted. In addition to information on the University of California and the California State University and Colleges, salary data are also included for the California community colleges. Segmental salary requests and projections from the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Cost Indexes
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