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Download full textDepartment of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. – 1966
APPROXIMATELY 225 REPRESENTATIVES OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, LABOR, AND FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL AGENCIES PARTICIPATED IN THE CONFERENCE WHICH AIMED TO PROVIDE A COMMON PLATFORM FOR THE MOST INFORMED PEOPLE FROM MANY DISCIPLINES TO FOCUS ON THIS LARGELY UNEXPLORED AREA, IDENTIFY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS AND TECHNIQUES, AND IDENTIFY…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling
National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life, Washington, DC. – 1977
This report, the first of a series on productivity and job security, presents five case studies to illustrate retraining to achieve worker's adjustment to technology. The first of seven chapters addresses the following issues: the availability of job training/retraining data, the desirability of informing workers in advance of technological…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, City Government, Employer Employee Relationship
Hill, Norman – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1988
William Julius Wilson's "The Truly Disadvantaged" blames the rise in the Black urban underclass on the rapid, systemic, and structural changes in the economy in the 1970s, which left Black unemployment at a spectacularly high rate. His insights should be acknowledged and his recommendations heeded. (BJV)
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Employment, Black Population Trends, Blue Collar Occupations
Brown, Richard K., Ed. – 1997
This book contains nine papers that were presented to the Sociology and Social Policy section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The first paper, "Introduction: Work and Employment in the 1990s" (Richard Brown), puts work and employment in a historical context and examines how globalization of the economy has…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Economic Change, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Koefer, Ann M. – 1993
This independent learning packet, which is designed for administrators, teachers, counselors, and tutors in Pennsylvania's Region 7 Tri-Valley Literacy Staff Development area as well as for their adult students, examines the following seven problems encountered by students: the job market, child care, single parenting/parenting skills, divorce,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Alcoholism
Rubin, Murray – 1983
For nearly 50 years, the unemployment insurance program has functioned as a unique and largely successful intergovernmental effort. From its inception, federal and state governments have each had principal jurisdiction over particular aspects of the program and both have shared responsibilities for others. The distribution of authority and…
Descriptors: Adults, Court Litigation, Employment Problems, Federal Courts
Sherman, Susan W., Ed. – 1983
Unemployment among young people is a serious and persistent problem in this country. Unemployment rates are especially high among members of minority groups, for high school dropouts, and in economically depressed areas. Vocational education can help to alleviate the problem of unemployment, and a close link between schools and employers can help…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Articulation (Education), Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Jacobs, Rita D. – 1977
Addressing the current employment crisis in the humanities fields, this paper examines employment opportunities for Ph.D. graduates outside the university environment. The report notes that humanities graduates have learned skills of research, problem solving, and writing, and that graduate training emphasizes the ability to penetrate underlying…
Descriptors: American Studies, Attitude Change, Bibliographies, Business
Jones, Joan, Ed.; And Others – 1977
Objectives of the conference presented in these proceedings were to (1) clarify and describe part D (Vocational Education Amendments of 1976) exemplary project anticipated results, (2) discuss dissemination strategies for implementing these results, and (3) develop state and local strategies for encouraging the spread of these results from one…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agencies, Career Development, Community Involvement
San Francisco Community Coll. District, CA. – 1976
Vocational English as a Second Language (ESL) programs in San Francisco serve at one time a variety of students with differing language levels. Programs fall into three types, based on their trainees' current employment situation: unemployed and without a job site; unemployed but with a job site and verbal commitment to hire if performance during…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Career Counseling, Career Planning
Felstead, Alan; Jewson, Nick; Phizacklea, Annie; Walters, Sally – 2000
The patterns, extent, and problems of working at home in the United Kingdom were examined through a multivariate analysis of data from the Labour Force Survey, which has questioned respondents about the location of their workplace since 1992. The numbers of people working "mainly" at home increased from 345,920 (1.5%) in 1981 to 680,612…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities
Spierings, John – 2002
The problems facing young people in Australia's current labor market and the effectiveness of Australia's educational system in preparing young people for the labor market were examined. Particular attention was paid to the following issues: the reshaping of work in the modern labor market; skill development in the modern labor market; the impact…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Economic Change, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Kim, Anne – 2001
Evidence from the past 4 years confirms that private sector jobs are the best and first resort for welfare recipients seeking to enter the workforce and that the private sector can well absorb the entry of these new workers. The model of wage-based transitional employment may be a more effective means of helping hard-to-employ welfare recipients…
Descriptors: Career Development, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Gangl, Markus – 2000
An empirical analysis used data for 12 European countries from the 1988-1997 European Community Labour Force Survey to assess the effects of cyclical changes in aggregate economic conditions, changing youth cohort sizes, increasing educational expansion, and structural changes in labor demand on new labor force participants. Emphasis was on the…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, College Graduates, Developed Nations, Dropouts
Holzer, Harry J.; Stoll, Michael A.; Wissoker, Douglas – 2001
Data from interviews with 750 employers in Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles were used to analyze the job performance and retention rates of recently hired welfare recipients. The 20-minute interviews focused on employers' subjective ratings of recently hired welfare recipients' job performance and whether employers experienced the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Basic Skills, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
