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Jamye Long; Cooper Johnson; Sam Faught – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2023
Universities, specifically their colleges of business, stress within courses, through events, and across their public persona the significance of gender diversity practices as a means to treat women fairly, provide them with equal opportunities, and to create an even playing field. The emphasis of this topic stresses that gender diversity is of…
Descriptors: Universities, Business Schools, Females, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Gwilym Croucher; Elizabeth Baré; Kenneth Moore – Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2025
The use of casual contract employment has become a prominent feature in higher education institutions worldwide, including the growth of adjunct roles in the United States and fixed-term teaching staff positions in the UK. In Australia, this trend has been a subject of significant controversy and national attention in recent years, as casual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
Timofeyev, Yuriy – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper clarifies the social and economic effects of employment in the informal sector on the poor in Russia in recent years. The article describes the extent to which the figures for informal sector at large and unofficial employment in particular vary in different estimates and the effect they have on the average labor income of the poor. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor, Wages, Poverty
Oettinger, Gerald S. – Journal of Human Resources, 2011
This study documents the rapid growth in home-based wage and salary employment and the sharp decline in the home-based wage penalty in the United States between 1980 and 2000. These twin patterns, observed for both men and women in most occupation groups, suggest that employer costs of providing home-based work arrangements have decreased.…
Descriptors: Employment, Work Environment, Teleworking, Family Environment
Adams, Jonathan; Lee, Sue; Cortese, Juliann – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2012
A national survey of high school principals (N = 683) was used to assess the acceptability of job applicant qualifications that included degrees earned either online, partly online, or in a traditional-residential teacher-training program. The applicants with coursework taken in a traditional-residential setting were overwhelmingly preferred over…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Statistical Analysis, Principals, Online Courses
Achieve, Inc., 2012
In today's job market, middle and high skills jobs--jobs that require some education and training beyond high school--comprise the majority of job openings and typically provide the best wages and opportunities for advancement. And almost every day, there is an article or news story discussing the "skills mismatch" phenomenon, the…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Employment Patterns, Skilled Occupations, Technical Occupations
National Association of Colleges and Employers (NJ1), 2010
The National Association of Colleges and Employers conducted its annual survey of employer members from June 15, 2010 to August 15, 2010, to benchmark data relevant to college recruiting. From a base of 861 employers holding organizational membership, there were 268 responses for a response rate of 31 percent. Following are some of the major…
Descriptors: Global Approach, College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Benchmarking
National Association of Colleges and Employers (NJ1), 2010
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) conducts an annual survey of college students to identify: (1) how students approach the job market as they near graduation; (2) how responsive the market is to the graduating students; (3) the resources students use to seek their first full-time job after getting their degree; and (4) the…
Descriptors: Job Search Methods, Labor Market, Student Surveys, College Graduates
Stainback, Kevin – Social Forces, 2008
Scholarly literature and the media often tout "networking" as an effective route for obtaining quality employment. Some scholars, however, have cautioned that racially segregated social networks may produce racially segregated workgroups and differential opportunity structures over time. Drawing from theoretical perspectives pertaining to social…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Social Networks, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns

Clinton, Angela – Monthly Labor Review, 1997
Trends in employment, occupations, output, and input provide evidence that firms increased their use of contract and contingent labor. Further research is needed to explore the causal factors behind the shift toward market-mediated work arrangements. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Tables (Data)

Baldwin, Marjorie L.; Johnson, William G. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1996
Data from the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation showed that 62% of differences in wages offered to black and white men and 67% of differences in observed wages were not due to productivity differences. Wage discrimination reduced the relative employment rate of black men from 89% to 82% of white men's rate. (SK)
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Males

Haber, Sheldon E.; And Others – Monthly Labor Review, 1983
Computations using data from the Current Population Survey show that the separation rate of women is the same as or lower than that of men when wage rates are taken into account. For Blacks, the separation rate is lower than that for Whites, regardless of sex. (Author)
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Females

Lafferty, George; Whitehouse, Gillian – Australian Bulletin of Labour, 2000
A survey of 2,528 Australian organizations found that 44% had used some teleworkers, 15% did regularly. Larger organizations were more likely to use them. Most telework was done at home. In one-third of companies all teleworkers were male, in one-fourth over 75% were female. Teleworkers were most likely to be in management, information technology,…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Foreign Countries, National Surveys

Guimary, Donald L. – Journalism Quarterly, 1984
Notes that the percentage of minority employees in California newspaper and television newsrooms has increased since 1979. (FL)
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Media Research, Minority Groups

Marvelle, Kevin; Green, Susan K. – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1980
Attractive condidates were evaluated more favorably than unattractive candidates. However, this effect was qualified by type of job: attractive candidates were preferred over unattractive candidates only when they were interviewed for a sex-appropriate position. (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Employer Attitudes, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices