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Direct linkKathleen Bolter, Contributor; Tim Bartik, Contributor; Brad Hershbein, Contributor; Michelle Miller-Adams, Contributor; Lee Adams, Contributor; Brian Asquith, Contributor; Alfonso Hernandez, Contributor; Kyle Huisman, Contributor; Iryna V. Lendel, Contributor; Gabrielle Pepin, Contributor; Bridget Timmeney, Contributor; Beth Truesdale, Contributor; Yulya Truskinovsky, Contributor – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
The Policies for Place initiative at the Upjohn Institute brings together experts from around the country to study community-based strategies to create good jobs--and how to help people get and keep those good jobs. This initiative represents a unique approach to helping people in distressed places: (1) focus on good jobs because research shows…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Place Based Education, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
Download full textGriffin, Tabatha, Ed.; Beddie, Francesca, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
One of the challenges facing Australia is the ageing of the population. Of major concern, especially to government, is that the dependency ratio--a measure of the burden that economically active persons carry by supporting dependent persons--will increase significantly unless older people keep working or immigration is used to change the…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Employment Potential, Maturity (Individuals), Age Discrimination
Holzman, Michael S. – 1978
This document consists of summaries of five separate forums relating to youth employment problems and local development. Each forum consisted of presentations by three individuals from varied backgrounds. Forum participants examined the following trends associated with the youth unemployment problem: (1) the technological structure of business and…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems, Job Development
Hall, William C., Ed. – 1989
This document contains excerpts from material previously published by Australia's TAFE (Technical and Further Education) National Centre for Research and Development on the subjects of industry restructuring, the reasons for restructuring, revising curricula, and providing a service to business and industry. Its contents are "Industry…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Industrial Structure
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
Nightingale, Demetra Smith, Ed.; Haveman, Robert H., Ed. – 1994
Contributions to this book are based on presentations at a conference hosted by The Urban Institute in April 1994 to consider the challenges of achieving self-sufficiency for the nation's poor. Achieving long-term self-sufficiency for society's members is a fundamental social goal, but the problems involved, particularly those of finding enough…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Job Development
Mangum, Garth, Ed.; Mangum, Stephen, Ed. – 1996
This book contains 17 social policy essays on various topics related to labor and full employment policies in the United States. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Stephen Mangum); "Secular Rabbi: The Life and Times of Sar A. Levitan" (Garth Mangum); "Young Workers, Young Families, and Child Poverty"…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, At Risk Persons, Block Grants
Feller, Rich, Ed.; Walz, Garry R., Ed. – 1996
A collection of 47 articles, this monograph addresses critical needs and promising practices in career development. The articles, written both by leaders and new comers in career development, offer extensive scholarship and new perspectives. The volume is divided into six sections: (1) Foundations Revisited; (2) Turbulence in Career Development:…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Exploration
London, Manuel, Ed. – 1995
The 13 chapters in this volume detail how industrial and organizational psychologists, human resource professionals, and consultants have created innovative human resource development and training programs. "Employee Development and Job Creation" (Jennifer Jarratt, Joseph F. Coates) looks at several trends that have important consequences for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Career Education, Dislocated Workers
Nietupski, John A., Ed.; Chappelle, Sandra A., Ed. – 1993
The Dispersed Heterogeneous Placement (DHP) supported employment project involved dispersal of three to five consumers across several departments/areas in a larger business or across several businesses in close proximity. The individuals placed had a wide range of talents and disability severity levels. Typically, a four-person site might have one…
Descriptors: Community Support, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Job Development
Sellin, Burkart, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 23 papers on European trends in vocational education and training (VET) and the development of occupations and qualifications. The following papers are included: "Vocational Socialisation and Competence Development: The Historical Dimension" (Walter R. Heinz); "European Trends in the Development of Vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Communications, Competence, Continuing Education
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on increasing job satisfaction that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "A Systematic Model of Job Design by Examining the Organizational Factors Affecting Satisfaction" (Zhichao Cheng, Danyang Yang, Fenglou Liu) reports on a project in which…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Planning
PDF pending restorationBaily, Martin Neil; And Others – 1984
This volume consists of four articles dealing with strategies for combatting unemployment in the 1980s. In the first article, entitled "The Problem of Unemployment in the United States," Martin Neil Baily examines the nature of unemployment, the inflation trade-off and the natural rate of unemployment, indicators of structural change,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Employment Opportunities
