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National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Div. of Behavioral Sciences. – 1974
The report provides an assessment of the six Experimental Manpower Laboratories set up by the Manpower Administration to engage in long-term research concerned with developing improved manpower service-delivery systems. An advisory committee under the auspices of the National Research Council was established to conduct the assessment. The six…
Descriptors: Administration, Correctional Rehabilitation, Disadvantaged, Industrial Training
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Halpin, Terrence C. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1979
Examines state differences in seasonal variations in employment to see if these differences are linked to state differences in experience-rating strength (balance between unemployment insurance taxes and expected benefit payments). Results suggest that experience-rated unemployment insurance taxes are effective in stablizing employment. (MF)
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Differences, Economic Research, Employment Experience
Braden, Paul V.; Paul, Krishan K. – 1979
Vocational education plays a significant role in the nation's economic development in terms of its capacity to make individuals more employable. It can respond to specific regional needs by producing the skilled workers for a rapidly growing industry. If, however, the industries of a region do not utilize the skills of the existing labor force, it…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Coordination, Economic Development, Economic Factors
National Inst. of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 1978
This volume presents a study undertaken in Connecticut to identify short-term and long-term strategies for changing prison industries into self-supporting labor systems while simultaneously promoting the rehabilitation of prison inmates. Individual tasks performed as part of the study include a job market survey, an inmate manpower survey, and a…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation, Cost Effectiveness
Lawrence, John E. S.; Gross, John – 1981
A series of 13 surveys examined the occupational information needs of 11 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. During the course of this research effort, state occupational information coordinating committees (SOICCs) polled various agencies within their states to determine the agencies' needs for information concerning occupational…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Employment Projections
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Ripley, Randall B. – 1977
This last of a series of reports on the implementation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in Ohio, from the inception of the program in 1974 through mid-1976, compares 16 of the 17 prime sponsors in the State. The monograph describes and explains patterns of influence over decisionmaking about CETA at the local level, a…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Organizations, Decision Making, Delivery Systems