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Peer reviewedIlg, Randy E. – Monthly Labor Review, 1995
Increased farm size, improved technology, and competing demands for farm land resulted in substantial decline in farm acreage and consequent declines in farm employment. Remaining farm operators are more likely to be white, highly educated, and have larger, capital-intensive farms. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Economic Change, Employment Patterns, Farmers
Gorovitz, Elizabeth – Training and Development Journal, 1983
Issues currently affecting employee training are the impact of high technology, worker adaptability, the communications revolution, job satisfaction, underinvestment in human capital, demographic shifts, and interest in productivity improvement. (SK)
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Change, Employment Patterns, Job Training
Peer reviewedJarlett, Frank, Ed. – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1999
Includes five articles: "Introduction"; "Workplace Trends"; "Challenge of Change"; "The Choice"; and "Techniques of 'New Work' Places." Reports that many new jobs are being created in services and trades; "new work" accommodates global trends; workplaces choose to succeed or fail in the new environment; and successful techniques involve trends,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Economic Change, Employment Patterns
Peer reviewedSassen-Koob, Saskia – International Migration Review, 1984
Immigration and off-shore production have evolved into mechanisms for the massive incorporation of Third World women into wage-labor. There is a systemic relation between this globalization and feminization of wage labor. (KH)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns, Exports
Download full textSouthern Growth Policies Board, Research Triangle Park, NC. – 1981
This final report on southern American cities cites as its major recommendation the need for each southern State to have articulated urban policy. Findings are summarized in the areas of State urban policies, intergovernmental relationships, economic development policy, planning and growth policy, annexation policy, and energy policy. Background…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Economic Change, Economic Development, Employment Patterns
Greene, Elizabeth – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Recent college graduates in technical fields are faring worst in the job market, with sharp declines in job offers and some decreases in salaries, but humanities students are doing significantly better, especially in merchandising and services. Generally, 1987 starting salaries are two percent to six percent above 1986. (MSE)
Descriptors: Business Administration, College Graduates, Computer Science, Economic Change
Horstkotte, Hermann – BASIS-INFO, 1998
As in many other industrialized countries, advances in computer technology are transforming Germany's industrial society into an information and services society. Increasingly fewer jobs are available in traditional industries and in the public sector. In the 1990s, Germany's trade unions and employers' associations have experienced steady…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Economic Change, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns
