A study was conducted to gain a better understanding of problems facing limited resource families, specifically residents of four public housing communities. A needs assessment was developed and administered by a resident team from the housing communities. Through a systematic sampling technique, 100 households were selected from a target population of 500 households in 4 public housing communities in Cabell County, West Virginia. Sixty-three households responded. They reported that the most...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Crime, Crime Prevention, Drug Abuse, Economically...
This statewide study concerning salary supplementing activities of Arkansas public school teachers is based on a sample of approximately 1,500 teachers who completed a 33-item questionnaire. Foremost among the concerns of the researchers were such topics as: (1) How many teachers are working outside the field? (2) How much time is spent in these extra activities? (3) What kinds of activities are teachers involved in; and (4) Why do teachers hold a part-time job? Respondents were primarily...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Market, Low Income States, Multiple Employment,...
Teenage unemployment is a critical manpower problem. Youth most severely affected are minority group members and those with limited education. Many barriers stand in the way of their obtaining steady jobs: lack of training and experience, job movement, child labor laws, minimum wage standards, and competition for jobs from veterans and middle-aged women. Special measures are needed, such as a different minimum wage, manpower programs, and most importantly, career-oriented education so that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Development, Career Education, Career Opportunities, Career Planning,...
The main objective of the 1994-95 PASSAGE Newsletter project was to provide timely workplace and job skills information to Pennsylvania's adult learners, unemployed/underemployed individuals, adult educators, career counselors/trainers, and resource/training centers. The newsletter highlighted a variety of topics: classroom skills used in the workplace, employer expectations, job search strategies, growing career fields, labor market trends, and success stories. It maintained a hands-on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Students, Career Development, Career Education, Education Work...
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Topics: College graduates, College graduates, College graduates, Labor supply, Labor supply,...
The project aimed to provide disadvantaged adults with elementary training in vocational skills and instruction in those basic communication and computation skills deemed essential for effective pursuit of a vocation. The 109 adult trainees met the following selection criteria: (1) head of 2 family or household, (2) unemployed or underemployed, (3) a resident of the State of Alabama, and (4) evidence of 2 years of employment some time in the past. The trainees were also characterized by: (1)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling, Adult Vocational Education, Disadvantaged,...
The report consists of three parts: "The Design of a Federal Employment Program to Counter Recession"; "The Design of a Federal Employment Program in a Strategy to Raise Low Earnings"; and "The Design of a Guaranteed Job Opportunity as a Part of Welfare Reform". In Part 1, an Anti-Recession Program (ARP) is proposed. ARP is an automatically triggered Federal employment program that builds on the current Public Employment Program, but tries to correct its...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Research, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Programs,...
This monograph outlines public policy responses to deal with the effects of forced worklife changes fashioned by government in the United States, Japan, and Western European countries. From the Morrill Act of 1862, through New Deal policy initiatives and on to the "active" manpower policies operating in Europe, the record of government programs and the economic theories underlying them are surveyed and assessed. Special attention is given in this review to the identification of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Business Cycles, Economic Change, Education Work Relationship, Employment...
The poverty rate in America has increased during the Reagan Administration. Real welfare benefits have fallen sharply and people with jobs have been disqualified from government assistance. Using lessons from the public and private sectors, legislators are attempting to change the regulations of public assistance and welfare work programs to assure that work is always a viable and attractive alternative to people who receive public assistance and that job training and employment services are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Hearings, Incentives, Job Training, Labor Force, Labor Market, Poverty, Public...
Of the 19 projects conducted as part of the Defense Conversion Adjustment (DCA) Demonstration administered by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Work-Based Learning, 8 tested the worker mobility approach. The projects, which shared the common goal of helping dislocated defense workers find high-quality jobs, tested one or more of the following strategies: service to increase employability, training for specific occupations, and support for new business start-ups or "spinoffs."...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Planning, Cooperative Planning, Delivery...
Even though undeniable social changes such as gender discrimination have occurred, the forms of access to public education and employment, as well as the conditions under which these jobs are carried out, are often loaded with sexist biases. Using the biographical-narrative method and a combination of techniques and strategies for gathering and analysing information, the current paper presents an empirical longitudinal study examining the labour situation of rural women who participate in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Adults, Females, Rural Areas, Labor Conditions, Longitudinal...
Of the currently unemployed workforce, a portion (100,000 to 2.1 million) can be termed dislocated workers. Even as the economy recovers from the current recession, these involuntarily unemployed workers will face serious problems finding new jobs because of structural changes in the economy. Current unemployment and training programs often do not address the needs of dislocated workers, either because of limits on the scope of their services or because the programs are targeted to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal...
The Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. However, the labor market has made agonizingly slow progress toward a full recovery, and the slack that remains continues to be devastating for workers of all ages. The weak labor market has been, and continues to be, very tough on young workers. Though the labor market is headed in the right direction, it is improving very slowly, and the job prospects for young high school and college graduates remain dim. A key finding of this paper is that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Labor Market, Economic Climate, High School Graduates, Educational...
This Issue Brief reports on the international mobility of scientists and engineers to the United States and discusses student flows into the higher education system, the stay rates of foreign doctoral recipients, and their short and long term employment in United States industry, universities, and government. Information presented in the tables and graphs includes: (1) United States and foreign-born scientists and engineers in research and development in the United States in 1993 by sector and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Brain Drain, Doctoral Degrees, Employment Patterns, Engineers, Foreign Workers,...
Although U.S. policymakers have adopted the view that work is the solution to poverty, work may not ensure a decent standard of living for many families. This report estimates the number of families who are not making ends meet. It examines the cost of living in various communities in every state and determines "basic family budgets" for six family types in all metropolitan areas and in a combined rural area for each state. These budgets cover housing, child care, health care, food,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Health Care, Budgets, Child Welfare, Costs, Day Care, Economic Research,...
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; assisting entrepreneurs in business start-up; providing counseling and management assistance to small and medium sized business owners; helping...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Development, Nontraditional Education, Community Colleges, Industry,...
This book is the sixth in a series of six pocket-sized books written for career changers and laid-off workers. Each book is written at a 7th- to 10th-grade reading level and contains examples, hands-on self-discovery exercises, and step-by-step advice for a successful job search. This book provides information on financial survival between jobs--budgeting, dealing with creditors, making money quickly, and keeping an upbeat attitude. Chapter 1 offers suggestions for dealing with job loss....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Budgeting, Career Change, Career Education, Health Insurance,...
The House select committee met to hear testimony from parents, children, service providers, and researchers concerning the effects of job and income loss on families in central Illinois. The testimony of the first panel consisted of personal narratives. A high school student whose parents may move the family in order to find better paying jobs discussed the threat of leaving friends, relatives, and school. Three men discussed personal and family hardships that resulted when they were laid off...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Abuse, Coping, Dislocated Workers, Economic Factors, Family Problems, Family...
The document represents the concluding phase of a two-part study analyzing data to determine the impact of institutional training on women. It is an exploratory data collection effort to assess factors which appear to affect the performance of women during institutional training in 12 sites. Skills center staff and employment service personnel were interviewed. Questionnaires were administered to a sample of students attending classes at the time of the field review, and data were also...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Guidance, Data Analysis, Educational...
Nigeria has a population of about 166.2 million as recorded in 2012 and 113 recognized universities apart from poly-techniques and colleges of education. These higher institutions of learning are churning out graduates in their thousands who have nothing to engage them from year to year in their thousands. The focus of this is to examine the psychological impacts of unemployment and underemployment on the mental health of Nigeria youths and the place of good governance and agricultural...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Underemployment, Mental Health, Young Adults,...
Overskilling is the phenomenon whereby a worker's skills are underutilised in his or her job. Overskilled workers are employed, but they are underutilised and mismatched, in that their skills and abilities are not a good match with the requirements of the job. Overskilling can lead to decreased wages and job satisfaction, which suggests that the investment in skills for that individual has been somewhat wasted. Overskilling mismatch has been shown to be persistent; that is, present overskilling...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Wages, Job Satisfaction, Persistence, Salary Wage Differentials, Probability,...
Most of the nonmetropolitan poor live in a household with at least one worker. In 1987, 70% of nonmetro poor family heads who were not ill, disabled, or retired worked for at least part of the year, and 24% worked full time, year-round. The employed proportion of the poor was significantly larger in nonmetro than metro areas. Despite a lengthy economic recovery, poverty rates among nonmetro workers in 1987 were significantly higher than during the recovery of the late 1970s. Poverty rates for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Census Figures, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment, Employment...
The results of two surveys are summarized in this research report. They include: (1) an interview survey of a sample of employers of 100 or more personnel in four of Indiana's Planning and Development Regions, and (2) a questionnaire survey of a sample of companies employing from 50 to 100 personnel. The surveys were conducted in the summer of 1975 with the goal of identifying the views of business and industry in the state concerning the employability of college graduates. The results indicate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Guidance, College Graduates, Communication Skills, Employers, Employment...
Objectives of the Career Assessment, Remediation, Education, Employment, and Re-entry (CAREER) project were to establish a series of intensive, short-term job training programs using competency-based instruction to serve Hispanic persons who were economically disadvantaged, displaced, unemployed, or underemployed, as well as Hispanic females who were seeking nontraditional occupations. An advisory committee for each program area developed a list of entry-level competencies and reviewed and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Ancillary School Services, Competency Based Education,...
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Topics: Unemployment, Underemployment, Job hunting, Career development, Sous-emploi, Recherche d'emploi,...
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Topics: Economie urbaine, Chômage, Économie urbaine, Sous-emploi, Migrations alternantes, Mobilité...
Many have expressed concern about manpower policy and programs as instruments of social change and with the role of manpower training in easing economic downturns, inflationary pressures, and poverty. This report is offered because seven years of experience in the Training and Technology (TAT) Program located at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, have provided some cogent answers to queries concerning the "best way" to provide effective skill training to the disadvantaged. In the TAT Program, a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Apprenticeships, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged,...
This report provides a summary of six summative evaluation studies that were implemented and completed between 1999 and 2002. The evaluations were conducted on three different streams of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy (YES). The Youth Employment Strategy was introduced by the federal government in 1997 to address employment related challenges facing youth. Fourteen federal departments and agencies together with public, private and voluntary sector partners were involved in the delivery of...
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Airbnb CTO Nathan Blecharczyk tells "The Atlantic's" Derek Thompson that service-based online platforms like his restore dignity and financial health to those who are unemployed or underemployed as the country's economic conditions remain unstable. Inspired by "The Atlantic's" enduring partnership with the Aspen Institute and Aspen Ideas Festival, the fifth-annual Washington Ideas Forum gathers an audience of 600 people, including government officials, top business...
Topics: Colorado, Aspen, The Aspen Instititue, Youtube, Airbnb (Website), Blecharczyk, Nathan Blecharczyk,...
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Young people are finding it hard to get good jobs. At the same time, the poverty rate for senior citzens is growing. Markus Moos explores the effects of austerity on the generational divide in this recent talk. Markus Moos teaches in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo. The talk is introduced by Redeye host Jane Williams. Check out our website for more information about Redeye. Find us on Facebook and like our page for regular updates.
Topics: austerity, poverty, youth, young people, unemployment, underemployment, seniors, generational...
Several simulations of population, income, and employment in rural and urban America during 1970-2000 were made based on alternative assumptions. The assumptions entailed implementation of certain policies that might effect a more equal rural-urban balance by the year 2000, in addition to a continuation of current trends. If basic trends continue, rural outmigration would probably stop or reverse itself shortly after the year 2000, primarily because the gap between the incomes of rural and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Income, Labor Force, Labor...
This instructional guide, one of a series developed by the Technical Education Advancement Modules (TEAM) project, is a 16-hour introduction to plant floor operations. The guide is designed to develop the following competencies: (1) understanding the characteristics and components of personal computer (PC) networks; (2) computer networking operations; (3) workstation interconnection (PC network topologies); and (4) transmission media. The module is intended to upgrade basic technical...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs,...
Blacks, Hispanics, and women are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed than white males, regardless of economic conditions. This conclusion was drawn from an analysis of data gathered from the March Current Population Survey for the years 1971 through 1980, the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, and state and local unemployment rates supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data were analyzed to determine whether factors other than discrimination could account for the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adults, Affirmative Action, Blacks, Employment Problems, Equal Opportunities (Jobs),...
There is a growing disparity between jobs' educational requirements and workers' educational attainments, and also an increasing underutilization of college-educated workers. Changes in the demand for educated labor arise from changes in the U.S. economy's industrial structure and from changes in particular jobs' educational requirements. Changes in industrial structure, which may be related to capitalism's needs regarding labor costs, technology, and workplace control, have reduced the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Capitalism, College Attendance, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship,...
This examination of structural changes in the U.S. economy and its effect on the role of working women presents a policy agenda for alleviating some of the economic strains facing today's working woman. Material is arranged into 3 parts. Part 1 provides an historical backdrop and discusses women's shift out of housework, women as providers, and the social and institutional environment. Part 2 focuses on problems facing today's working women including inequity in pay; climbing poverty rates...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Day Care, Displaced Homemakers, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents, Employed Women,...
The project was conducted to find out if there was a need for an adult education program to provide instruction in job-related competencies in the basic skills of reading, writing, math, spelling, and communications for the unemployed and underemployed of Mohave County, Arizona. The report presents the procedures used to identify the persons eligible and willing to take an adult basic education course related to job skills. Results of the study show the difficulty of locating and interviewing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, County Programs, Disadvantaged, Educational Demand,...
The job readiness workshop was designed to offer participants improved methods of finding employment. The manual is intended to be used with small groups of unemployed or underemployed individuals in a workshop setting. The workshop's materials are designed as a resource unit, not as a teaching plan. The attempt has been to present desirable objectives, possible leading statements and approaches for the leader, key questions, suggested participant activities, and concerns and problems that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employment Interviews, Guides, Instructional Materials, Job Application, Job...
Part-time instructors constitute a substantial proportion of the faculty at all levels of instruction. Community colleges in California are especially dependent on part-time instructors. Based on a survey of 243 (46%) part-time instructors at Santa Monica College, this study shows that most part-time instructors are committed to the profession of teaching but prohibited from full-time jobs by the employment crisis. Their qualifications compare well with those of full-time faculty and they...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Employment Problems, Job Satisfaction, Part Time Faculty,...
Because some rural women underutilize their increased schooling while others are disadvantaged by low educational attainment and underdeveloped skills, and in order to help determine policy alternatives to meet rural women's educational needs, the educational attainments and labor force participation of rural white and minority women were studied. In 1975, white nonmetropolitan women completed an average of 12.2 years of school as compared to 8.9 years for black and 7.7 years for hispanic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Blacks, Career Education, Elementary Secondary Education,...
The relationship between education and the economy is explained by opposing theories--functionalism and conflict. A way of assessing functionalism and conflict theory is to see if increasing educational attainment increases social equality. Higher educational attainment has occurred but has not led to an equal distribution of income. The extent of overeducation, workers with education in excess of job requirements, is a means of evaluating whether occupations are being upgraded at the same rate...
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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 actual and desired working hours of women in western and eastern Germany were examined by surveying a random sample of 6,742 western and eastern German women aged 18-65 years. Of the women interviewed, 1,800 from western Germany and 1,341 from eastern Germany were in dependent employment. An overall response rate of 52.8% was achieved. Eighty-four percent of respondents in full-time employment in the West and 85% in full-time employment in the East were satisfied with their working hours....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes, Employment...
The objectives of the report on underemployment are to define underemployment precisely and to explore some implications of that definition, to identify the significant causes of underemployment as defined, to investigate measurement issues related to the definition, and to make recommendations on the basis of the findings that will assist in policy decisions aimed at reducing underemployment. Chapter 1 provides the rationale and objectives of the study. Chapter 2 discusses labor markets, human...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Definitions, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Educational Policy, Human...
Jobs and job satisfaction are the focus of this transcript of a radio series broadcast by the National Public Radio System entitled "Can You Get There from Here?" The second of a 4-part series on the relationship between schooling and jobs, this program centers around an interview with anthropologist Elliot Liebow, author of "Tally's Corner," and concentrates on Dr. Liebow's reactions to several sound portraits of people in what could be considered "dead end" jobs....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Discussion, Educational Policy, Educational Radio, Employment, Employment Potential,...
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Topics: Young men, Fathers and daughters, City and town life, Underemployment, Single fathers, First loves
Dichotomous poverty is defined by taking an arbitrary standard of consumption capability as a dividing line between rich and poor. An investigation into dichotomous poverty below the 2000 dollar level will be worthwhile, since, in 1953, the Planning Board announced as a goal the attempt to lift all families above this margin. In 1953, 78 percent of the families had an income below the 2000 dollar dichotomous poverty threshold. Forty-six percent did not reach it in 1963, and 39 percent did not...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Development, Economic Factors, Economic Progress, Economically...
This publication contains four papers presented by the Director of the Women's Bureau (Canada), which cover topics of concern and interest to the Bureau. Papers are: (1) "The Underemployed, Underpaid Third of the Labour Force," which presents statistical data reflecting a picture of working women in Canada, showing the occupational segregation and wage discrimination that persists, (2) "The Importance of Perseverance," which is designed to appeal to women to persevere in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Federal Legislation, Females, Labor...
CIRF Publications, Vol. 12, No. 5 is a collection of 80 abstracts giving particular attention to education, training, and economic growth in developing countries, Iran, Japan, Kenya, the Solomon Islands, and Sri Lanka; vocational rehabilitation in Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the U. S. A.; agriculture in Chad, developing countries, and Switzerland; and training for the unemployed and underemployed. The professional abstracts, generally two pages long, are broken down by sector (i.e.,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Agriculture, Citations (References), Content Analysis, Developing Nations,...
Underemployment is the focus of this transcript of a radio series published as an electronic weekly magazine concerned with issues in education. The first of a 2-part series, this program incorporates studio interviews with: James O'Toole of the Center for the Study of the Future; a ceramics college graduate working as a shipping clerk; various college students concerning their career expectations; Albert Sussman, the dean of a school of graduate studies; and a former member of the graduate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Discussion, Educational Policy, Educational Radio, Employment,...
