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Regional Technology Strategies, Inc., Carrboro, NC. – 2003
This paper is a response to the collective interests expressed by a network of the leadership of ten U.S. community college systems to better understand how community colleges can support emerging state cluster-based economic development strategies. The intent is to proved concrete applications of a cluster-based model that inform both workforce…
Descriptors: Business, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development
Shaul, Marnie S. – 2001
Lacking the resources of larger organizations, small businesses are often unable to find skilled workers to fill immediate employment needs and to identify strategies to meet their future workforce needs. In some communities, business and trade organizations, community colleges, and other public and private organizations have partnered to create…
Descriptors: Adults, Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Employment
Mehta, Kala; Gabbard, Susan M.; Barrat, Vanessa; Lewis, Melissa; Carroll, Daniel; Mines, Richard – 2000
This report presents current information on the characteristics and work patterns of hired laborers who perform crop work in the United States. Information was obtained from interviews with 4,199 workers in 85 counties between October 1, 1996 and September 30, 1998. Chapters 1-3 provide information about the farmworkers themselves, including…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
Newman, Allen R. – Migration Today, 1982
The assumption that Mexican emigration to the United States provides benefits to Mexico in the form of jobs for unemployed Mexicans and wage remittances has kept Mexican officials from discouraging illegal emigration. In fact, emigration drains the Mexican economy and should be a cause for Mexican government concern. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Economic Development
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Hall, Arden R. – Journal of Human Resources, 1980
A study to determine the effects of free counseling services and a program of subsidies for the direct costs of education and training revealed that the subsidies did induce increased school attendance, and both counseling and training affected labor supply. However, no subsequent effects of increased human capital have been found. (LRA)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adults, Attendance
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Gnezda, M. Therese – Young Children, 1996
Examines stresses on the early childhood service system due to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Discusses elimination of Aid to Families with Dependent Children; creation of state block grants, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and Child Care and Development Fund; and restructuring of the Child…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Child Advocacy, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare
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Schroeder, Steven A. – Academic Medicine, 1993
Issues related to the production of more generalists in medicine are discussed, including economic, practice-related, and scientific forces favoring practice of specialty medicine; the influence of the medical school experience on career choice; strategies for correcting the balance inside and outside academic medicine; and resulting alternative…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Change Strategies, College Role, Costs
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Rosenthal, Thomas C.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1992
The design, curricula, and financing of four existing medical schools' rural training track programs (University of Washington, University of Nebraska, State University of New York/Buffalo, University of Kentucky) are described. The programs are seen as having potential to decrease the shortage of physicians choosing careers in rural areas.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Case Studies, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Curriculum Design
Career Education, 1992
Discusses industries that are vital to the nation's economy and the numbers of skilled workers they will need to keep moving ahead. Industries profiled are aviation, automotive, allied health, trucking, paralegal, electronics, and computer-aided drafting. Also looks at proprietary schools that are educating the work force of the future. (JOW)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Aviation Technology, Computer Assisted Design, Drafting
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Bee, Malcolm; Dolton, Peter – Higher Education, 1990
In this paper, unemployment trends in aggregate, by faculty and by subject are examined, using data from the annual First Destination Return, first compiled for the 1961-62 university graduates, and the 1970 and 1980 graduate cohort surveys. Differences related to gender and type of institution of study are identified. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Business, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Fine Arts
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Kulis, Stephen – Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 1998
Using a nationally representative sample of college faculty from a wide array of science disciplines, this study investigates links between organizational conditions and women's representation on college faculties. Results indicate that although the female doctoral labor supply and political constraints are powerful factors in representation,…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Family Work Relationship, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
Hartog, Joop – 1984
If labor market phenomena are interpreted from an allocational point of view, where individuals differing in levels of various capabilities have to be matched with jobs differing in job requirements, education can be seen as an intermediary institution affecting the capability endowment of individuals upon entering the labor market. Vertical…
Descriptors: Ability, Career Choice, Decision Making, Demand Occupations
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1994
The Senate Committee on Finance met to hear testimony on and discuss the preparation of medical doctors and how the Clinton Administration's proposed health care reform would influence medical education and the supply of health care professionals. Peter P. Budetti, director of the Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University…
Descriptors: Family Practice (Medicine), Federal Legislation, Hearings, Higher Education
Cohen, Jon; Pelavin, Diane – 1992
This study was designed to identify areas in the vocational rehabilitation (VR) field in which long-term training is likely to alleviate existing labor shortages and areas in which short-term training is critically necessary to ensure adequate service to VR clients. The study sought to paint a national picture of training needs affecting…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1998
A study identified the gaps between supply and demand for training in Washington State and recommended strategies for reducing them. The study considered the perspectives of both employers and workers and separately analyzed the needs of three groups: youth, adults, and adults with barriers to employment. The study found the following: (1) there…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Employment Patterns
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