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Biggs, Andrew G. – Educational Researcher, 2023
The COVID-related financial market decline and economic recession have raised new concerns regarding the financial sustainability of retirement plans for state and local government employees, the largest group of whom is public school teachers. Using data from the Public Plans Database and the National Income and Product Accounts, I analyze…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Economic Climate, COVID-19
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Springer, Matthew G.; Taylor, Lori L. – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2021
Theory suggests that strategic compensation can not only serve as a powerful motivational incentive to increase worker performance, but also improve the composition of the workforce through the attraction and retention of high performers and discouragement of lesser performers from entering or staying in the profession. This study tests the…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Incentives, Merit Pay
Vargas-Rodríguez, Yolanda Marina; Obaya Valdiva, Adolfo Eduardo; Montano-Osorio, Carlos; Lima-Vargas, Alvaro E.; Pacheco-Ortin, Sandy M.; Vargas-Rodriguez, Guadalupe I. – Online Submission, 2020
A problem-based online learning (PBe-L) teaching sequence was designed for calculating the shelf life (expiration date) of an on-site solution of refrigerated drug as part of activities of a Pharmaceutical Physical Chemistry course of Pharmacy major at FES Cuautitlán UNAM in Mexico. The teacher presents students the problem, a group collaborative…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Problem Based Learning, Preservation, Pharmaceutical Education
Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 2010
The economy's need for workers originates in the demand for the goods and services that they provide. So, to project employment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) starts by projecting the gross domestic product (GDP) for 2018. GDP is the value of the final goods produced and services provided in the United States. Then, BLS estimates the…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Charts, Labor
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Academe, 2011
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Great Recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. With a duration of eighteen months, this recession was almost double the length of the average post-World War II economic downturn. Although the worst recession since the Great Depression is now technically over, this analysis…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Economic Climate, Economic Status, Economic Impact
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Bednarzik, Robert W.; And Others – Monthly Labor Review, 1982
In 1981, the unemployment rate rose, propelled by cutbacks in housing, auto, and related industries; the employment-population ratio was at a four-year low. Most leading economic indicators were pointing toward further deterioration and industrial production was still heading downward. (Editor/CT)
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Employment Projections, Housing Industry, Labor Force
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Cohen, Yinon; Pfeffer, Jeffrey – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1986
Using a sample of 254 San Francisco Bay Area establishments, this study examines determinants of organizational hiring selectivity, including use of educational credentials, tests, and screening devices for both white and blue collar workers. Apparently, hiring standards reflect organizations' skill requirements and group preferences for these…
Descriptors: Credentials, Organizational Climate, Personnel Selection, Prerequisites
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Herman, Arthur S. – Monthly Labor Review, 1986
Productivity, as measured by output per employee hour, grew in 1984 in about three quarters of the industries for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly publishes data. (A table shows productivity trends in industries measured by the Bureau, including mining, transportation and utilities, and trade and services.) (CT)
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Industry, Mining, Productivity
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Travica, Bob – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Discussion of changes in organizational environments focuses on nonbureaucratic, or nontraditional, organizations, and the role of information technology. A model of a nontraditional organizational design is described and results of a pilot study of the role of information technology in nontraditional organizations are presented. Contains 114…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Models, Organizational Change, Organizational Climate
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Data from 506 private and public colleges and universities concerning endowment performance in fiscal 1998 are presented. Each responding institution is ranked, with the market value of its endowments given for June 30, 1997, and June 30, 1998, and the percentage change noted. (MSE)
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Educational Finance, Endowment Funds, Higher Education
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Haugen, Steven E.; Meisenheimer, Joseph R., II – Monthly Labor Review, 1991
Employment declined and unemployment rose in the second half of 1990; job losses were particularly acute in construction and manufacturing. (Author)
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Economic Climate, Employment Patterns, Labor Market
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Dean, Edwin; And Others – Monthly Labor Review, 1986
Manufacturing productivity, as measured by output per hour, rose in 1984 in the United States and 11 other industrial countries studied. (Statistics are presented in the following areas: productivity trends, employment and hours, hourly compensation, unit labor costs, and relative productivity and labor cost trends.) (CT)
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Employment, Fringe Benefits, Labor Economics
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Educational Record, 1981
Higher Education expenditures and common economic indices are charted: Consumer Price Index and Higher Education Price Index (1958-79); U.S. Gross National Product (GNP) in current and 1972 dollars (1946-79); general and higher education expenditures as a percentage of the GNP (1949-79); and total and per student voluntary support of higher…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Indexes, Economic Climate, Educational Economics
SERAmerica, 1990
Discusses trends that will shape the last years of the twentieth century: (1) the U.S. economy should grow at a steady pace; (2) service industries will dominate the economy; (3) the work force will grow slowly, becoming older, more female, and more disadvantaged; and (4) new jobs will require higher skills levels. (JOW)
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Employment Patterns, Futures (of Society), Labor Force
Mercer, Joye – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995
An annual survey reveals that private giving to 992 colleges rose 10.3% in 1993-94, 7.6% when adjusted for inflation, the sharpest increase since 1986-87. The trend is attributed to improvement and increasing confidence in the economy. The greatest increase in giving was at public, master's-granting institutions. Alumni provided 28% of total…
Descriptors: College Administration, Economic Climate, Fund Raising, Higher Education
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