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Crowley, Michael F. – Monthly Labor Review, 1972
Descriptors: Career Change, College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections

Altrichter, Herbert – Higher Education, 1982
Austrian Ph.D.s in education were surveyed about their employment patterns. Half were in universities and teacher training; relatively new occupational fields (social work, special education, vocational training) employed few. Little unemployment was found, but about 20 percent were overqualified for their jobs. Suggestions for graduate curriculum…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Degrees, Education Majors

Weisenstein, Greg R. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1979
The author examines some of the traditional barriers and myths which have led to unemployment and underemployment of the handicapped, including job search practices, labor market variations, attitudes restricting occupational choice, and lack of training. He notes recent beneficial trends and makes recommendations for further change. (SJL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Education, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination

Jones-Johnson, Gloria – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1989
A sample of 500 Black American males was studied to determine if there was a causal relationship between underemployment and/or underpayment and psychosocial stress. No significant relationships were found. (JS)
Descriptors: Blacks, Coping, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged

Livingstone, David W. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Commentary on "The Bell Curve." Points out that Herrnstein and Murray do not acknowledge their politically conservative funding sources. Discusses bias and inadequacies of IQ tests, lack of evidence of intergenerational reproduction of occupational classes, current underemployment of highly educated people, and the authors'…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Gifted, Heredity, Intelligence Differences
Geber, Beverly – Training, 1993
There are inherent problems when unskilled or semiskilled workers are retrained for high skilled jobs that do not and will not exist. Although the consensus is that smarter workers will make the nation more competitive in the world market, the occupation that will add the most jobs by the year 2005 is retail clerk. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Government Role, Labor Force Development, Labor Needs
Illinois Community College Board, 2008
The Illinois Community College Board provided more than $3.3 million to community colleges during fiscal year 2008 to provide workforce and economic development services through their Business and Industry Centers. The workforce development activities conducted under this grant include customized job training on campus or on-site at a business;…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Nontraditional Education, Community Colleges, Industry
Davidson, Carl; Woodbury, Stephen A. – 1995
An array of innovative policies has been suggested to address more effectively the needs of dislocated workers. A model has been proposed to simulate the impacts of a wage-rate subsidy (or salary supplement) program in which a dislocated worker who becomes reemployed would receive a payment equal to one-half the difference between the wage…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Practices, Employment Programs, Grants
Johnson, Jean M. – 1998
This report provides detailed statistical profiles of students from several major countries who were doctoral recipients in science and engineering at U.S. universities and the initial intent of these foreign doctoral recipients to locate in the United States after graduation. The statistical profiles included in this report contain two tables for…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Employment Patterns, Engineers, Foreign Workers
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1983
The importance of the link between education and work is examined along with current trends, including employment opportunities, the evolving structure of the American economy, and productivity. The positive, direct benefits apparent between work and education are that sound schooling benefits the individual, the employer, and the nation's…
Descriptors: College Role, Continuing Education, Economic Climate, Education Work Relationship
Guzzardi, Walter, Jr. – Fortune, 1976
The problems caused by increasing production of college graduates and the economy's fluctuating demand for degree holders in the job market are described. Methods for teaching more marketable skills in colleges based on a cooperative association between business and education are discussed. (MS)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Cooperative Education, Educational Improvement, Employment Potential
Rosen, Howard, Ed. – 1986
These five papers underscore the fact that the labor market policies of Japan, West Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia are similar in many ways. The papers are "Japanese Labor Market Policies" (Koji Taira), "The Labor Market Policies of West Germany" (Deborah R. Cichon), "The Management of the U.K. Labour…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Employment Programs, Foreign Countries
Full Employment Action Council, Washington, DC. – 1986
The number of persons working part-time for economic reasons increased 60 percent (by 2.112 million workers) between 1979 and 1985. Although total wage and salary employment is up since 1979, nearly one in five new positions is a part-time job filled by a worker unsuccessful in finding full-time employment. Sixty-two percent of those working…
Descriptors: Demography, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems, Females
Rutenberg, Taly – 1986
In the absence of Federal job initiatives, over 14 million people cannot find full or part-time work. According to a report issued by the Full Employment Action Council and the National Committee for Full Employment, they are casualties of shifts in the economy and of deficit spending that favors the affluent and the military over the poor and the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Federal Programs, Government Role
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the Budget. – 1985
The proceedings of a House of Representatives joint task force on the relationship of Federal budget policy to unemployment are presented. The hearings include statements from a representative of the United States Catholic Conference, economists of the Urban Institute, the vice president of the Committee for Economic Development, and a…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Education Work Relationship, Employment Problems, Federal Government