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Direct linkJeanne Batalova; Julia Gelatt; Michael Fix – Migration Policy Institute, 2024
The U.S. economy has changed dramatically in recent decades, from one that was heavily industrial to one that is mostly service and knowledge based. In the process, demand has grown for workers with higher levels of education and a different mix of skills. This period of rapid change is far from over. Population aging, the rise of new…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parents, Children, Geographic Location
Sawada, Yasuyuki – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Infrastructure investments play a particularly important role in expanding overall employment opportunities either directly by absorbing workers or indirectly by crowding in private investments, technology adoption,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Development, Labor Force Development, Job Skills
Download full textWhite, Erin; Shakibnia, Ariana F. – Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference, 2019
This article attempts to address the workforce crisis with implications for economic competitiveness and national defense faced by America and the dichotomy of STEM needs and available employees. Businesses struggle to fill critical skilled roles in STEM occupations and thus suffer sluggish growth. In fact, some estimate up to 2.4 million STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Trends, Labor Force, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedNijboer, Irene D.; Wevers, Cornelius J. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1993
A work analysis was conducted to determine whether the job of lathe and milling machine operator is suitable for young adults with one arm or hand. The analysis concluded that it is suitable but adjustments of the workplace may be necessary, such as transporting heavy equipment. The importance of labor research to vocational rehabilitation is…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Injuries, Job Analysis, Job Development
Paris, Kathleen A. – 1990
The Wisconsin Workplace Partnership Literacy (WPL) Program provided job-specific basic skills education to employees at 11 worksites. A total of 1,441 employees were recruited to participate in on-site competency-based educational activities to upgrade their basic skills sufficiently for job retention or advancement. Participants were encouraged…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Job Development
Tessaring, M. – 1993
The extension of the 1989 Institute of Employment Research (IAB)/Prognos projection of the sectoral and job-specific labor force demand by levels of qualification shows that the previous trends toward higher qualification requirements of jobs is expected to continue in Germany. The main reasons are the significant shift in favor of secondary…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Sperber, Leslie; Bloom, Dan – 2002
Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project (WRP), which was implemented in 1994-2001, required that single-parent welfare recipients who could not find wage-paying jobs after receiving cash assistance for 30 months accept work in subsidized, minimum-wage community service employment (CSE) positions to satisfy their work requirement and improve their…
Descriptors: Community Services, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Employment Qualifications
Miller, Cynthia; Bos, Johannes M.; Porter, Kristin E.; Tseng, Fannie M.; Abe, Yasuyo – MDRC, 2005
Succeeding in the labor market depends now more than ever on having the right education and training. This reality poses a particular challenge for out-of-school youth, who are no longer connected to institutions designed to provide them with training and connect them to good jobs. The Center for Employment Training (CET) in San Jose, California,…
Descriptors: Credentials, Out of School Youth, Labor Market, Job Training
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
To assess the feasibility of large-scale, countercyclical public job creation, a study was initiated. Job creation program activities were examined in terms of how many activities could be undertaken; what would be their costs; and what would be their characteristics (labor-intensity, skill-mix, and political acceptability) that might contribute…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities
Elliott, Mark; Roder, Anne; King, Elisabeth; Stillman, Joseph – 2001
A study assessed the first two years of a three-year initiative to test the potential of extending sectoral employment strategies among 10 organizations, most of which were new to the sectoral employment field. Five organizations increasing low-income workers' access to good jobs were ARCH; PhAME; Training, Inc.; WIRE-Net; and Project QUEST. Five…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Occupational and Continuing Education. – 1984
A study examined approximately 130 projects that were conducted in New York between November 1980 and December 1983 as a part of the state's Short-Term Program for Economic Development. During the study, researchers interviewed representatives of the businesses, industries, unions, and educational institutions involved in the training programs in…
Descriptors: Business, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Diaz, William A.; And Others – 1980
A study focused on the implementation and project feasibility of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) during the latter period of the demonstration from September 1978 through August 1979. Program operations at 17 sites--Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, King-Snohomish Counties (Washington), Mississippi, Alachua…
Descriptors: Demography, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1980
A study focused on the implementation of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) in its initial period through September 1978. Program operations at 17 sites--Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, King and Snohomish Counties (Washington), Mississippi, Alachua County (Florida), Albuquerque, Berkeley, Dayton, Hillsborough…
Descriptors: Coordination, Demography, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
