Tables present 1977 and 1978 data, collected by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, that trace the progress of Blacks and other minorities in Florida community colleges. Tables 1 through 3D describe student enrollment in terms of college-level headcount as of the end of the drop/add period, recent high school graduates, and acceptance rate (virtually 100% for all races, though the enrollment rate dropped considerably for all races). Tables 4A and 4B summarize financial aid...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Students, Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Enrollment Trends, Females,...
Increasing attention is being paid to linking education and the market place to prepare youth for a productive role in work. Three areas constitute the ingredients for developing a realistic strategy: (1) Changes in the market place, (2) a delivery system for increased youth employment, and (3) local industry-education councils. Over the next decade significant changes will have impact on the employment situation for youth and will require major adjustments in the educational programs focusing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Citizens Councils, Coordination, Delivery Systems, Educational...
The Adolescent Worker Study was designed to provide an in-depth analysis of the job experiences and related life histories of out-of-school working youth. To do this, a team of investigators first identified work sites across a range of industrial sectors that were currently engaged in hiring young workers between the ages of 17 and 21. Then, the team engaged the participation of the next young person to be hired in each work site. As a result, 25 case histories were compiled and analyzed. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Career Choice, Case Studies, Dismissal (Personnel), Education Work...
This report discusses the current status of school finance, and singles out trends affecting the efforts of professional teachers organizations to secure adequate funds for education. The document also contains employment and salary data on school and university teachers and information on Federal, State, and local expenditures and revenue efforts. A related document is ED 002 543. (JF)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bond Issues, Costs, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Employment Patterns,...
Although public policy debate centers on education and training (ET) as a primary determinant of economic success, this study suggests that instead the economy determines patterns of participation in education and training. Research over time shows that planned government ET policies have little ability to affect the economy because the effects of the economy on patterns of participation in ET are so strong. This study of ET trends and the economy in South Wales identified 31 potential...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Employee...
In order to develop conclusions about future policy aimed at addressing the challenge of workers at risk because of low skills, the NEWSKILLS project combined scientific analysis with consultation with social partner representatives, policy analysis, and field work in firms. Population proportions in International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 0-2 group (those who had completed lower secondary or less education) varied widely among European countries. In all countries, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, At Risk Persons, Basic Skills, Developed...
Many economists have tried to explain existing wage differentials between men and women. A new approach compares the relative importance of occupational discrimination with that of wage discrimination. This model allows for variation both in occupational distribution and in wages resulting from differences in job qualifications and productivity indicators. It was demonstrated that the usual approach to wage discrimination is a special case of this general model with some restrictive implicit...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices,...
In the past year, cash-strapped districts have been handing out pink slips by the hundreds, and some, by the thousands. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 60,000 teachers were laid off in 2009. State budget gaps and deficit projections, with federal stimulus funding already spent, suggest more of the same for 2010. Some observers expect current cuts to come faster even than those of the 1970s, when the baby boom generation waned, emptying out schools across the country. In...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Employment, Job Layoff, Criteria, Educational Policy,...
The nature of undergraduate enrollment in engineering has raised questions about the ability of the United States to retain the leadership necessary to provide for a healthy economy in a technological age. Also, some people are concerned that new graduate enrollments are not keeping pace with the near-doubling of the number of engineering graduates since the mid-1970s and that more than half of doctoral level graduates in recent years have been foreign citizens. Motivation and incentives for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Science, Educational Quality,...
The outcomes achieved by Australia's national vocational education and training (VET) system in 2001 were analyzed in terms of the following performance indicators: (1) recognized VET skill outputs; (2) stocks of skills versus desired levels; (3) employer satisfaction with VET; (4) student outcomes from VET; (5) participation, outputs, and outcomes for client groups; (6) efficiency performance; and (7) total expenditure on VET. Selected findings of the analysis were as follows: (1) although...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Cost...
The job satisfaction and organizational commitment of rehabilitation counselors working in public rehabilitation agencies in Vermont are the focus of this study. Participants were 22 rehabilitation counselor survey respondents whose agencies agreed to take part in the study. A total of 40 surveys were mailed. Job satisfaction was measured using the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, though the sample size was too small to conduct extensive data analysis. The three components of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counselor Qualifications, Counselors, Employee Attitudes, Employment Patterns, Job...
In October 1985, Broome Community College (BCC) conducted its eleventh annual graduate survey. The survey was administered in-person during graduation rehearsal, and also mailed to those who did not attend rehearsal. Study findings, based on a 93% response rate, included the following: (1) 1183 students graduated from BCC as members of the class of 1985; (2) 91% of the responding graduates found employment (50%) or transferred to four-year colleges or technical schools (41%); (3) only 6% were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Employment...
Four key trends will shape the American labor force in the final years of the 20th century. The American economy should grow at a relatively healthy pace. Despite its international comeback, however, U.S. manufacturing constitutes a much smaller share of the economy in the year 2000 than it does today. The work force will grow slowly, becoming older, more female, and more disadvantaged. The new jobs in service industries will demand much higher skills. These trends raise a number of important...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aging (Individuals), Demography, Economic Climate, Economic Factors, Educational...
Extensive data tables on higher education in Missouri present information on: the academic preparation of college freshmen (fall 1995), including distribution of American College Testing (ACT) scores and high school rankings; tuition, fees, and financial aid (state and federal, by aid type, including merit-based scholarships) and trends; enrollment (headcount and full-time equivalent freshman, total undergraduate, graduate, and by age, gender, ethnicity, and geographic origin) and trends;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Access to Education, Class Rank, College Entrance Examinations,...
The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 collected data on the backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and plans of 16,683 students who were high school seniors at 1,044 schools in 1972. In addition, three followup studies focused on the work experiences, education and training, military service, family status, life experiences, and opinions of these respondents as of 1973, 1974, and 1976. After analyzing those data from the survey pertaining to vocational education,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Educational...
This research brief examines employment and hiring among full-time minority college faculty over the 10-year period (1981-1991) using data from the biannual faculty surveys of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It compares the number of new full-time faculty hires to the actual employment gains in tenure-track and non-tenure track positions. Finally it discusses some major factors in recruiting and retaining minority faculty and suggests ways to increase the number and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Asian Americans, Blacks, College Faculty, Employment Patterns, Faculty Integration,...
In 1993, about 21 million persons in the United States (about one-fifth of the total in nonagricultural industries) worked part time (fewer than 35 hours a week). Although the majority of persons working part time do so voluntarily, over the past 2 decades the number of involuntary part-time workers, those who want full-time jobs but who settle for part-time work, has increased dramatically. Voluntary part timers are likely to be women aged 25-54, young people aged 16-24, or older people (aged...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Business Cycles, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems,...
These five articles present analyses, graphs, and tables showing important trends in the employment of college graduates. The first one, "The Outlook for College Graduates, 1996-2006: Prepare Yourself" (Mark Mittelhauser), concludes that there are more jobseekers with college degrees than there are openings of college-level jobs. "The Class of 1993: One Year After Graduation" (Megan Barkume) reports on a survey of these graduates' employment status, continuing education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Compensation (Remuneration), Degrees (Academic), Employment...
The relationships existing among human capital theory, Australian public policy, literacy education, and the plight of Australia's long-term unemployed were examined. The following topics were considered: human capital theory-based public policies and literacy education; social capital and learning; building and using social capital; the "social justice" and "social coalition" approaches to policy; and the notion of "mutual obligation" in social welfare policies....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Community Education,...
From its position in the Office of the Secretary of Labor, the Women's Bureau participates in departmental policy making and program planning and serves as a coordinating body in the Department of Labor for programs affecting women. Among its activities are the following: initiating and supporting research in economic, social, and legislative areas and making policy recommendations; testing innovations through demonstration projects; and carrying out an information and education program....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Employed Women, Employment Patterns,...
In 1992, a study was conducted at Grossmont College (GC) in El Cajon, California, to determine employment positions and incomes of former students who had left/graduated during the 3 academic years 1985-86, 1986-87, and 1987-1988 and had been enrolled in one of the following 11 vocational education programs: Accounting, Administration and Justice, Business-General, Business Office Technology, Cardiovascular Technology (CT), Child Development (CD), Family Studies (FS), Information Systems,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Education Work...
Data from the U.S. Census and more limited surveys aimed at specific artist occupations were used to profile the employment and earnings of four groups of artists in 1970-1990: authors, artists who work with their hands, performing artists, and architects and designers. The following items were examined: evidence of multiple job holding; reliability/consistency of data from various sources; growth of the field; geographic areas where individuals in the field are most likely to live and work;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Age Differences, Architects, Art Education, Artists, Authors, Dance, Designers,...
The skill requirements for the occupation of information technologist were examined in a study in which data were collected from 4 sources: search of existing literature; preliminary exploratory interviews with an unspecified number of employers in Britain's information technology (IT) sector; in-depth interviews with nearly 20 employers who employed between 20 and several thousand employees each; and discussion of the interview findings with a small group of employers and key actors in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Ladders, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Employer Attitudes,...
This report provides an overview of the economics of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia and on the changes and policy development in VET over the past decade. The book is organized in seven chapters, with the first chapter providing an overview of the scope, background, and changes of VET in Australia during the 1990s, as well as an overview of the whole document. Chapter 2 examines the changing nature and patterns of employment in Australia, focusing on the emergence of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Delivery Systems, Demand Occupations,...
This study investigated the early labor market experiences of second generation immigrants in the Netherlands, focusing on Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese, and Antilleans. Researchers examined those leaving school and their job experiences. Data came from a 1998 nationwide survey involving the four minority groups and a Dutch reference group in 13 large cities. Respondents described household composition, immigration history, neighborhood, parental education, work status while in school, leaving...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Differences, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns, Ethnicity, Family...
Researchers have found that the labor market performance of exoffenders is dismal. The poor post-prison employment experiences of ex-offenders was investigated to determine whether their problems arose from being inexperienced low-skilled workers or from being ex-offenders. The sample was drawn from the Baltimore Life Insurance for Ex-Prisoners experiment, specifically males who had low financial resources, were repeat offenders, had no known history of alcohol or narcotic abuse, and had not...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Correctional Rehabilitation, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Failure,...
This monograph is designed to provide nontechnical users, including policymakers, program planners, curriculum developers, career counselors, and job development and placement specialists, with an introduction to applied labor market analysis of local conditions. Addressed in the individual chapters of the guide are the following topics: the nature of the analytical process; the spatial element of the geography of labor markets (labor markets, political versus economic definitions of a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Counseling, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Economic Factors, Economic...
Information is presented on foreign graduate students, foreign science and engineering (S/E) students in master's-granting institutions. The impact of these foreign graduates in the U.S. labor force is also assessed. The data were obtained from the National Science Foundation-conducted graduate science students and postdoctorates survey of academic deans and department heads and the annual Survey of Earned Doctorates. Findings include the following: the foreign share of all full-time S/E...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developing Nations, Doctoral Degrees, Employment Patterns, Engineering, Enrollment...
This study presents data from the 1979 Income Survey Development Program (ISDP) on lifetime work interruptions and examines the relationship between work interruptions and earnings. Descriptive data showing the extent to which men and women have experienced work interruptions are presented, followed by an analysis of the impact of work interruptions on earnings. The tables in the report show the proportion of persons with work interruptions and the proportion of potential work years spent away...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Black Employment, Blacks, Education Work Relationship, Employed Women,...
This report summarizes results of a survey of students in the recently-initiated part-time evening program of Nova Southeastern University (Florida) law school. Respondents included all 54 evening program students enrolled in spring 1997. Results indicate that about half the students hold a job that is either highly or moderately related to their academic program. Location and convenience were the two most frequently cited reasons for choosing the program. Students were generally satisfied with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Advising, Academic Standards, College Administration, College Choice,...
The high school/student qualities that lead to a more successful school-to-work transition were investigated. The project identified features of the high school experience correlated with initial labor market success/failure of young workers and determined if the conditions of a successful transition have changed in the last decade. Data for the high school senior class of 1980 from the High School and Beyond Survey were compared to a sample from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational...
The question addressed in this paper is to what extent does the use of measurement indicators based on differing, even contradictory, epistemic assumptions affect the acceptability of the empirical conclusions. The approach used monotonic transformations of empirically obtained measures of occupational and educational status to investigate the effect of patterns of intervalization which were isomorphic with epistemic relationship between the indices and the theoretical construct of social...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Educational Status Comparison, Employment...
The current conditions of home workers in the garment industry in Toronto, Canada, were examined through in-depth telephone interviews with 30 Chinese-speaking immigrant women who were employed as home workers in 1999. The paper dicusses the formal training and informal learning experiences of immigrant woman who are garment workers. A comparison of the results of the 1999 survey with those of similar surveys conducted in 1991 and 1993 revealed that the wages of sewing machine operators...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Care, Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal), Consciousness Raising,...
The structural problems present in vocational education in France and reform efforts under way to solve them were studied. Eighteen experts from government, science, and industry were interviewed, and statistics and other relevant publications were analyzed. The development of the French initial training system was outlined, and trends in demography, education, and employment as a platform for vocational training reform in France in the 1980s were examined. The educational policy debate on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis,...
Child-care arrangements of young working mothers were examined in a study using data from the Youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience. The data provided information on a sample of young men and women who were between the ages of 14 and 22 in 1979 and who have been interviewed annually since then. The data represented the primary child-care arrangements for the youngest child of working mothers aged 23-31 in 1988. The sample was restricted to those women...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Blacks, Child Rearing, Costs, Day Care, Demography, Employed Women,...
The human capital and growth accounting approaches to measuring the benefits of education both have serious weaknesses. Like other goods and services, educational services have effects on the economic well-being of individuals and families. Because the economic well-being effects of education include private marketed and non-marketed impacts as well as external or public impacts, estimates of the aggregate value of educational services must encompass all of these. To obtain a true understanding...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Research, Economic Status, Educational Attainment, Educational Benefits,...
This report presents data regarding employment and retention within Oklahoma of college graduates. Two specific issues addressed are: (1) the general productivity of the degree fields at the bachelor's and associate degree levels; and (2) the proportion of Oklahomans who receive these degrees and remain in the state over time. Both the academic degree fields and the Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC) are presented in a matrix. The tables display the distribution of graduates in each of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship,...
The key characteristics, representation, and salaries of women in management versus those of their male counterparts were examined through an analysis of Current Population Survey data collected in March 1995 and 2000. The study focused on the following 10 industries: communications; public administration; business and repair services; entertainment and recreation services; other professional services; educational services; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; hospitals and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communications, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment, Employed Women,...
The exodus of blacks from the south is connected to their abandonment of farming as a way of life. Since 1860 there has been a gradual move by the black population out of the rural south to the urban north from which stems a remarkable shift of the black labor force into industry. The black population from 1940 to 1970 has progressed from industry-related careers, to careers in the professions, service-related careers, and public administration. (Various tables show the percent distribution,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations, Black History, Blacks, Demography,...
This report presents findings based on data obtained during the prospective phase of the study of employee mobility in Head Start programs. Problems were encountered in the study, making the projection of conclusions regarding the extent of mobility in Head Start programs quite tenuous. The extent of mobility reported and the causes of mobility from the viewpoint of Head Start employees and of the organizations employing them are discussed, with supporting data from questionnaire responses....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Patterns, Federal Programs, Labor Turnover, Occupational Mobility,...
As a part of a series describing participants in the cooperative education option of the technical program at Macomb County Community College, this report compares the academic achievements, demographics, and employment characteristics of a random sample of 63 co-op respondents and 69 non co-op respondents from the original study population. Co-op students were younger the first time they enrolled than non co-op students (an average of 19.9 years old compared to 25 years old). Male co-ops were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Age, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Cooperative...
The rising number of multi-earner families has been one of the most important socioeconomic developments of the 1970s; since 1970, the number of such families has increased by more than 3 million. Almost exclusively responsible for the rising number of multi-earner families have been the steep annual increases in the number and proportion of working wives. Since 1970, the number of wives in the work force has increased by one-third (to nearly 24 million). Many of the working wives were also...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blacks, Children, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment, Employment Patterns,...
This followup study reports on the career patterns of 117 graduates from Ohio State University's College of Education, whether they were actively teaching or were in another job situation. Statistics are provided on demographic information and current occupations. Nonteachers were asked why they chose not to teach and how their present occupation was chosen. Teachers responded to questions on their attitudes toward their work, how their concerns have changed since beginning to teach, their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Ladders, College Graduates, Education Work...
Experiences of students while attending the City University of New York (CUNY) and their status approximately one year after graduation were studied with a sample of June 1979 graduates. About a 60 percent response rate to the questionnaire, which is appended, was obtained. It was found that 47 percent of associate degree graduates and 31 percent of baccalaureate degree graduates were minority group students, and these proportions closely approximate the enrollment of minorities in CUNY; women...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Attendance,...
The Younger Adult Worker (YAW) study examined the long-range impact of participation in vocational education through a national cross-sectional survey of 1,539 persons aged 20 to 24 who were in the civilian labor force. After supplementing study data with data from two other national data bases, researchers drew conclusions pertaining to the long-range effects of vocational education on participants' earnings, employment, education, and aspirations. Included among the main findings of the study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cross Sectional Studies, Demography, Education Work Relationship, Educational...
Using in-person questionnaires, 553 newcomers and 106 long-term residents were interviewed in late 1979 and early 1980 in 5 small northern California communities to explore the role of newcomers in developing the rural economy, and especially to analyze the resources emigrants bring with them: their skills, education, background, and business and financial resources. The five rural growth communities represented retirement, university/professional, government and public service, tourist, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Community Characteristics, Community Services, Decision Making,...
This information paper explores the need for age-neutral functional criteria in the human resources management system and the need for managers to review currently accepted employment policies. Population patterns, labor force profiles, and labor force projections are reviewed. The paper examines the effect of retirement policies and considers social security, pensions, and trends toward early retirement. Changing economic factors and the growing legal phenomenon of age discrimination are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Case Studies, Employment Patterns,...
The trends which are evident in the representation of women and minorities in school administration, and the barriers which these groups face in obtaining administrative positions are the subjects of this report. Following an introductory section, section II discusses trends in the representation of women and minorities in school administration. Section III describes the geographic locations and characteristics of districts headed by female and minority superintendents, and section IV examines...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Affirmative Action, Career Ladders, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary...
A study examined the effects of the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC) program on the employment and earnings of disadvantaged persons. Three outcomes--average quarterly wages, average number of quarters employed, and average wages during employed quarters--were studied for various categories of disadvantaged persons (economically disadvantaged youth, ex-offenders, and Vietnam-era veterans; handicapped persons who had completed rehabilitation; general assistance recipients; and Social Security...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns, Federal...
This volume is the second of three reporting research that is intended to help postsecondary occupational education deans and directors become able to plan more strategically for using new instructional technologies to meet emerging needs. The document contains the findings from three background studies in three chapters. "Emerging Information Technologies of Significance for Postsecondary Occupational Education" (Christopher J. Dede) is divided into two parts. Part 1 presents two...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Coordination, Dislocated Workers, Economic Development,...
