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Kelly, G. M. – International Labour Review, 2000
Gives an historical overview of the role and value of work from economic, philosophical, and legal perspectives. Stresses the need to humanize current globalization and technological trends in order to achieve the fundamental principle of the right to work and the objective of full employment. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economics, Employment, Employment Patterns
Jarvis, Philip S. – 2003
The knowledge economy is changing the way people work. New labor market entrants can expect to experience a succession of jobs in a number of industry sectors during their working lives. They may have concurrent part-time jobs at one time, and no paid work at other times. Work periods will be interspersed with periods of learning, either full- or…
Descriptors: Career Development, Economic Change, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Paukert, Liba – International Labour Review, 1991
Analyzes the situation of women workers in Czechoslovakia in terms of working conditions, difference in earnings compared to men, and attitudes toward work. Future developments, including massive unemployment of women, are outlined. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Females
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Stern, David; Nakata, Yoshi-Fumi – Journal of Higher Education, 1991
Trends in paid employment among college students since the early 1960s are described, effects on student persistence and the financial rate of return for individual students while in college are analyzed, and possible explanations for the rising trend in employment are examined. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Change
Morehouse, Ward; Dembo, David – 1988
In September 1988, 13.1 million people in the United States wanted jobs, a jobless rate more than twice the official unemployment rate. The official rate does not count the people who have stopped looking for work because they believe that none is available. However, joblessness is only part of the problem. Also important is the phenomenon of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Economic Change, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
Ellis, Diane C. – 1984
Data from both the 1970 and the 1980 Census are used to determine changes and trends in artist occupations and in the numbers of artists. The effects of changes in methods utilized to count artists in the 1980 Census are outlined, and estimated rates of growth by artist occupations are provided. The percentage of women artists, the ethnic…
Descriptors: Artists, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Workforce Economics, 1996
Although the general perception in the United States may be that downsizing in companies is pervasive and increasing, the facts show a slowing of the trend in downsizing and a net gain in employment. Many workers have found new jobs at or near their former pay rates, although only half of older workers are able to find jobs comparable to the ones…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Economic Change, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Economic 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
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Freudenburg, William R. – Rural Sociology, 1992
Examines development of rural communities and regions that depend on extractive industries (involving removal of raw materials from nature). Discusses "addictive activities" in such communities characterized by rising operation costs and declining commodities' prices. Discusses community and regional characteristics contributing to…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
Carnoy, Martin – 1983
Causes of the significant decrease in productivity growth and dramatic increase in unemployment in the United States since the mid-1960's are examined in order to test the underlying assumption of current economic policies that increasing capital savings and investments will create fuller and more productive employment. Data on trends in…
Descriptors: Capital, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Economic Change, Economic Research
Menchik, Mark David – 1980
An examination of trends in the service industries, as determined by U.S. Bureau of the Census figures (1970-77), reveals it to be the fastest growing sector in the economy, both nationally and rurally. Employment in this sector increased 24% nationally and accounted for 74% of the net gain in nonmetropolitan employment; growth was at least 65%…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Employment Patterns, Industrial Structure, Information Services
Mincy, Ronald B. – 1989
This paper is a product of the "Changing Domestic Priorities" project which has examined the shifts taking place in the nation's economic and social policies under the Reagan Administration and is now focusing on the major economic and social problems facing the nation over the coming decade. The following topics are discussed in this paper: (1)…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Economic Change, Economically Disadvantaged
Barley, Stephen R. – 1992
Over the past 4 decades, the number of professional and technical workers has increased by 282 percent, and economic forecasts indicate that this trend of rapid growth will increase. The bureaucratization of the professions, expansion and application of scientific knowledge, and technological change have all fueled a "technization" of the work…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Economic Change, Economic Research, Employment Patterns
Rochin, Refugio I. – 1997
In rural America, Latinos are the fastest growing population, increasing by 30 percent between 1980 and 1990. Rural Latinos are a large and growing share of the labor hired on farms, but earn only 60 cents for each dollar earned by nonfarm hired workers. This trend is largely due to the restructuring of agriculture in general, and the meatpacking…
Descriptors: Community Change, Economic Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns
Houseman, Susan N. – 1995
The literature on employment growth in the United States and selected industrialized countries and the wage, benefits, and job security characteristics of new and existing jobs were analyzed to determine how job growth and quality in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s compares to that in other industrialized countries. Among the study's…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Economic Change, Economic Climate
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