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Karmel, Tom – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
This paper was presented to a meeting of the Wellington Exchange, an international group of higher education officials, in December 2008. One of the topics of the meeting was around the issue of possible skills shortages emerging as a result of demographic trends, with the ageing of the population of developed countries. The paper argues that this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Developed Nations, Economic Climate, Vocational Education

Davenport, Lizzie; Cronin, Blaise – Education for Information, 1988
Describes the reduced employment opportunities for library and information science professionals in the United Kingdom as a result of financial constraints and restructuring in the public and private sectors. The need to train students in skills required by employers to meet employment demands is discussed. (40 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Johnston, William B. – Harvard Business Review, 1991
Although much of the world's human resources are being produced in developing countries, most of the well-paid jobs are in industrialized nations. Implications include massive relocations of people; reevaluation of industrialized nations' immigration policies; "surplus" human capital; improved productivity; and standardization of labor…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries

Szabo, Jozsef; Dienes, Istvan – Information Processing and Management, 1988
Examines trends in labor and capital resources and the production of the information economy in Hungary, and compares them to trends experienced in other market-oriented countries. A model that considers regional differences in the demand, supply, and life cycle of goods is used to explain secular information sector changes. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Economic Progress, Employment Patterns

Moore, Nick – Journal of Information Science, 1987
Describes emerging employment markets in the United Kingdom that require information skills, and examines the reasons why librarians and information workers have had little impact on these markets. The need for practical competencies, as well as formal qualifications, is cited as a major reason for this trend. (3 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Qualifications
Rumberger, Russell W. – 1983
The United States is faced with two serious economic problems: declining productivity growth and rising unemployment. These problems have become severe in the last decade. Both problems are caused by a number of factors, but experts fail to agree on which factors have most contributed to the problems. This paper examines the relationship between…
Descriptors: Administration, Developed Nations, Disadvantaged, Economic Research
Huws, U. – 2001
The EMERGENCE project carried out by the IES (Institute for Employment Studies) aimed to measure "eWork" at a global level. For the project, eWork was defined to mean any type of work that involves the digital processing of information and that uses a telecommunications link for receipt or delivery of the work to a remote employer or…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations, Emerging Occupations
Bechtel, Michael – 2000
Young people must prepare themselves for lifelong learning and frequent job changes. Optimists predict a new world of work with many creative, interesting, satisfying jobs; pessimists believe society will finally run out of work and foresee unemployment and social downgrading for a majority of people. There are indications at present of both…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship
Barrett, Joan B.; And Others – 1990
The countries of the European Community represent a commitment to European economic and political unity as part of a trend toward the globalization of the world's economic life. Economic, social, and political challenges are bound up in economic competitiveness. Countries are examining human resource issues in order to compete for the world…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Economic Development, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
Richards, Peter – 2001
Expanding upon a report presented to the International Labor Organization (ILO), this book documents the current world employment situation, including how it has fallen short, how current economic policies interact with world employment, and how improvements can be made. Chapter one, "The Commitment to Full Employment," describes how the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Careers, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Early Childhood and Family Education Unit. – 2002
Most female workers in developing countries do not have wage jobs. However, the preponderance of female workers in non-wage jobs is not consistent across all developing countries. It is highly likely that the proportion of non-wage female workers in developing countries is greater than is suggested by the statistics. Consequently, mothers in the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Child Care, Child Caregivers
Hakim, Catherine – 2000
This book proposes a new, multidisciplinary theory for explaining and predicting current and future patterns of women's choice between employment and family work. Chapters 1 and 2 present main tenets of preference theory and explain the need for the theory. Chapters 3 through 8 elaborate four principal tenets of preference theory. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Career Choice, Career Development
Hyslop-Margison, Emery J.; Welsh, Benjamin H. – 2001
The rhetoric surrounding career education programs was examined by exploring two questions. The first question was which employment sectors anticipate significant job growth and what skill levels and academic competencies were required to work within those sectors. The second question was whether increasing the level of student knowledge and skill…
Descriptors: Career Education, Competence, Competition, Developed Nations
Couppie, Thomas; Epiphane, Dominique – Training & Employment, 2002
Findings from the 1992 Generation survey carried out by Creq in 1997 among young people exiting the French school system indicates that work-related disparities encountered by young labor market entrants in France can be characterized according to the worker's gender. Obstacles facing women include the following: (1) risk of unemployment or…
Descriptors: Degrees (Academic), Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Certificates
Liaroutzos, Olivier; Sulzer, Emmanuel; Besucco, Nathalie; Lozier, Francoise – Training & Employment, 2002
The French worker certification system is focusing on efforts to design a scheme for the accreditation of work-based learning. If implemented, the scheme would be directed by a business-government-worker partnership, recognized and accepted by different occupations, and accessible to all employees regardless of the way their qualifications were…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Adult Education, Competence, Competency Based Education