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Download full textEconomic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC. Agriculture and Rural Economics Div. – 1987
Seventeen papers review recent changes in the structure and performance of the rural economy and examine alternative policies to facilitate the adjustment of displaced people and their communities. Some point to economic structural change in the 1980s as the cause of financial stress in rural America, in sharp contrast with the 1970s when growth…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Employment Patterns, Government Role, Policy Formation
Peer reviewedStanding, Guy; Sziraczki, Gyorgy, Eds. – International Labour Review, 1991
Nine articles discuss the effect of economic and social upheaval on employment and wages in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, the USSR, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics, Foreign Countries
Cho, DaeYeon; Imel, Susan – 2003
The question of what the future of work in the United States will be is examined in this publication using current information on trends and issues related to work, the economy, and the labor force. The compilation intended to give an overview of selected aspects of the topic and provide information about other resources. In the first section,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demand Occupations, Economic Change, Education Work Relationship
Brown, Richard K., Ed. – 1997
This book contains nine papers that were presented to the Sociology and Social Policy section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The first paper, "Introduction: Work and Employment in the 1990s" (Richard Brown), puts work and employment in a historical context and examines how globalization of the economy has…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Economic Change, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Auer, Peter, Ed. – 2001
This book contains five papers on the role of institutions in changing labor markets in Europe. "Introduction" (Peter Auer) explores the following topics: institutions and labor market forces; macroeconomic policy; redistribution of working times; equality of opportunity; and industrial relations and social dialogue. "Small-Economy…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Collective Bargaining, Comparative Analysis, Coordination
Turner, John A., Ed. – 2001
This document's seven papers examine compensation and employment risk in the United States and Canada. "Introduction" (John A. Turner) discusses compensation risk bearing in labor markets. "Wage and Job Risk for Workers" (John A. Turner) explores the problems of macroeconomic instability, job turnover, job and earnings…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Economic Change
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed.; Shanahan, Michael J., Ed. – 1999
This book contains 17 papers devoted to the following four aspects of the transition to adulthood: effects of alterations in the structure of opportunity; effects of prior experiences in the family; effects of prior experience in the workplace; and career development and marriage formation during a period of rising inequality. The following papers…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Beliefs
