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Young, Anne McDougall – Monthly Labor Review, 1981
The 1970s were marked by an increase in the level of education attainment of the average worker. By 1979 thirty-six per cent of all workers over 18 completed at least one year of college, and the percentage of workers not completing high school declined considerably. While the proportion of men participating in the labor force continued to fall,…
Descriptors: Adults, Demography, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
Johnson, Beverly L. – 1981
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…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Employed Parents, Employed Women
Eckland, Bruce K.; Wisenbaker, Joseph M. – 1979
The third follow-up survey of the National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the High School Class of 1972 was conducted from October, 1976 to May, 1977. From the data gathered, some of the following observations were made: (1) postsecondary school attendance declined from 54 to 25 percent from 1972 to 1976; (2) 39 percent of students who started…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Educational Discrimination, Educational Opportunities, Employment Patterns