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Stuart, Reginald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2009
Today, a national economy gone bust has derailed Black Americans' plans across the country. Gone are many of the economic gains, small as they were, achieved in the post-segregation era by millions of 1960s generation children and their children. Black America today is beset by job losses, business closures, pay cuts, furloughs, investment and…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Purchasing, Affirmative Action, African Americans
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Parmenter, Trevor R.; Knox, Marie – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1991
A follow-up study of 73 former special school students in New South Wales, Australia, found that 42 percent were in open employment. Those with moderate or severe intellectual disabilities were generally at sheltered workshops, activity centers, or home. Approximately 54 percent lived with their parents, and 69 percent reported a few close…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries
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Lumsden, D. Barry; Stewart, G. Bryan – Community College Review, 1992
Analyzes the 394 articles published in the "Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice" between 1977 and 1991 in terms of the authors' gender, region of residence, and institutional affiliation. Reports that most of the 633 authors were male, employed at a research university, and from the south. (DMM)
Descriptors: Authors, Colleges, Community Colleges, Educational Researchers
Chang, Moon K. – Illinois Schools Journal, 1988
Mentally retarded high school graduates, most of whom live with their parents, tend to make adequate adult adjustments with employment. High school vocational programs for disabled students are underutilized. Gender is statistically related to the employment status of the disabled, who usually work in unskilled service and labor jobs that they…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns
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Kaufman, Julie E.; Rosenbaum, James E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992
Education and employment outcomes are examined for African-American youth in Chicago (Illinois) whose families moved from mostly African-American urban housing projects to mostly white suburbs or mostly African-American urban areas. The suburban youth's achievement was at least as good as and sometimes better than that of their urban counterparts.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Youth, Educational Attainment
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Enchautegui, Maria E. – International Migration Review, 1992
Examines the role of human capital and labor market characteristics in explaining geographic and individual differentials in socioeconomic outcomes of Puerto Rican women in mainland United States. Human capital plays a larger role than do labor market characteristics in the better socioeconomic performance of Puerto Ricans outside the Northeast.…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Females, Geographic Regions, Heads of Households
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Saenz, Rogelio; Davila, Alberto – International Migration Review, 1992
Examines the relationships among human capital, employment, and ethnic factors, and return migration to the Southwest among Chicanos using an integrated human capital framework and data for 1,926 Chicano householders. Results suggest the importance of various human capital, employment, and ethnic composition variables as predictors of Chicano…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Census Figures, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
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Grey, Mark A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1997
Two case studies address the relationship between dual labor markets and rural schools, particularly the demographic transformation of rural school districts that host meatpacking plants that recruit immigrant workers. These schools have experienced an increase in non- and limited-English-speaking students. Employee turnover is reflected in school…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns