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Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1974
The years 1972 and 1974 had the lowest multiple jobholding rates in a decade. About 3.9 million American workers (4.5 percent of all employed persons) held two or more jobs at the same time in May 1974. About 22 percent of all moonlighters had at least one agricultural job. The decrease in moonlighting was primarily due to the sharply lower…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Employment, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
Taylor, Benjamin J.; O'Connor, Dennis J. – 1969
Employment other than farming or ranching is very limited on the Papago Reservation, and most Papagos do not possess the skills needed for off-reservation employment. In a survey of 382 Papagos (females and males), only 27% of the Indians aged 16 and over considered work a major activity in 1967-68. It is noted that 73% of the Indians spoke Papago…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cultural Differences, Economic Climate, Educational Background
Palakawongsa, Nai Nob; And Others – 1963
This report was prepared by the Joint Thai-US Task Force on Human Resource Development in Thailand. Volume I of the Report includes: Human Resources Development in Thailand--A Preliminary Assessment; The Educational System and Human Resource Development in Thailand; Manpower Demand; Adjusting Educational Supply to Manpower Demand; Education…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Economics, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Schwenger, Robert B. – 1971
The purpose of the study was to explore the possibility of developing a comprehensive conceptual framework for measuring the costs and benefits of foreign trade to American workers. Foreign trade was conceived of primarily as a number of parts of the dynamic world production-distribution-consumption process rather than as an aggregate exchange of…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Change, Economic Climate, Economics
Dean, Ernest H. – 1968
The purpose of the study was to determine the factors considered by industrialists as they select communities in which to locate their new manufacturing plants, and to place the relative importance upon vocational-technical education as a factor in the plant site selection process. The three populations consisted of 113 companies of varying sizes…
Descriptors: Community Education, Cultural Influences, Decision Making, Doctoral Dissertations
Acton, Jan; Levine, Robert – 1971
With an emphasis on planning and manipulating the supply of health personnel, this report suggests a method of determining state health manpower needs within the context of uncertain demand and incomplete control over supply. Using Illinois as a case in point, the report suggests that health manpower planning, especially at the state level, should…
Descriptors: Dentists, Health Education, Health Needs, Labor Demands
Connecticut Business and Industry Association, Hartford. – 1976
Conducting a survey of manpower training needs of business and industry in Connecticut and identifying elements of a vocational-career information delivery system were the two major focuses of the study described in this report. Content is presented in three chapters. Chapter 1 reviews and analyzes the manpower training needs survey and results.…
Descriptors: Business, Career Development, Career Guidance, Delivery Systems
Liedholm, Carl; Chuta, Enyinna – 1976
Small-scale industry in Sierra Leone, Africa was examined in terms of: labor intensity; output generated per unit of capital; generation of positive economic profits by small-scale industry groups/processes; and seasonal and locational variations. Key analytical issues were the nature of small-scale industry supply and demand processes. Data were…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economic Research, Employment Potential
Fishkind, Henry H.; And Others – 1976
The general objectives of this study were to (1) develop a methodology whereby needs assessments of vocational and technical education might be conducted efficiently and effectively in all urban areas of Florida, and (2) conduct, using the methodology developed, a needs assessment of the needs of business and industry, students, funding,…
Descriptors: Employment Projections, Labor Force Development, Labor Needs, Labor Supply
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Turner, Philip – Top of the News, 1987
Discusses current problems in professional education for school library media specialists, including the closing of programs, declining enrollments, and a lack of intellectual focus. A model is proposed which defines three purposes of school library media programs and provides a template against which specific professional programs can be…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities, Higher Education, Labor Supply
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Center for Health Workforce Studies. – 2001
A study was conducted to determine the information technology (IT) training needs of front-line clerical staff, medical records staff, and information systems staff in hospitals. Information was gathered through interviews and structured group discussions with human resources directors, information systems directors, medical records directors, and…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Educational Needs, Employment Qualifications, Hospitals
Jaumotte, Florence; Pain, Nigel – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2005
This paper uses panel regressions to investigate the effects of innovation policies and framework factors on business R&D intensity and patenting for a sample of 20 OECD countries over the period 1982- 2001. Both sets of factors are found to matter; the main determinants of innovativeness appear to be the availability of scientists and engineers,…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Intellectual Property, Foreign Countries, Labor Market
Ehrenhalt, Samuel M. – USA Today, 1983
Examined are jobs and earnings trends, occupational projections, women and minorities in the professional job market, and population and labor force trends. It is likely that the college graduate of the 1980s will be substantially better off in the labor market than those with less education. (SR)
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Graduates, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities
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Hamilton, Stephen F.; Claus, John F. – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Suggests that work training programs based on the concepts of democracy and entrepreneurship may facilitate improvements in employment opportunities for disadvantaged and minority youth. Attributes unemployment to deficiencies in the current economic and social structure, and discusses design and implementation problems in current employment…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors, Employment Problems, Employment Programs
Gulledge, Earl N. – Florida Vocational Journal, 1979
Discusses the representation of women in the labor force and their concentration of employment in a few occupations. Projects that unless changes are made in the ways women are orientated to and prepared for the labor force, employment opportunities will continue to occur in the fields in which women are already well represented. (LRA)
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Employed Women, Employment, Employment Opportunities
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