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Passmore, David Lynn; Welch, Frederick G. – Adolescence, 1983
Examined the relationship between preferences for part-time work and the personal characteristics of unemployed youths (N=2,087) using data from the March 1979 Current Population Survey. Age and school enrollment were the strongest correlates of desire for part-time work. Additional research is needed on the consequences of youth unemployment.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Employment Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Part Time Employment
Richardson, Ann; Dunning, Bruce B. – 1975
This study was undertaken in response to expressions of concern about the apparent high dropout and low placement rates for young under-22 Work Incentive Program (WIN) participants. The analysis is based on interviews with 518 young people in 13 cities across the United States who were in the program at some time between July 1971 and the spring…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Rate, Employee Attitudes, Employment Patterns
McNeil, John M. – 1983
Recent changes in the questionnaire used in the March Income Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS) have made it possible for the March CPS to be used as a source of information on the labor force status and other characteristics of noninstitutional persons with a work disability. According to the March 1982 CPS, the overall rate of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Definitions, Demography, Disabilities
Howieson, Cathy; And Others – 1993
A study examined the vocational counseling needs of youths in full-time employment and homeless youths in the United Kingdom. Available research regarding homeless young people and young people employed full time was reviewed to identify the following: their social and educational characteristics, their main transitions into/out of full-time…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling Services
Biggart, Andy – 2000
Based on a secondary analysis of the Scottish School Leavers Surveys from 1978-96, a study focused on low attainment with particular reference to gender. Findings indicated the proportion of low-attainers at ordinary or standard grade had more than halved since the 1970s; it declined more among women than men. Low S4 attainment was associated with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Developed Nations, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Biggart, Andy – 2000
A study analyzed a range of factors associated with male and female low attainment and the subsequent routes of low attainers leaving S4 up to the age of 19, using the Scottish School Leavers Survey data from 1978-96. The most significant trend was the extent to which low attainment declined, although significant differences in terms of gender…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Developed Nations, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Zanni-Teliopoulou, Kassandra; Stathakopoulou, Penelope – 1994
A study examined the vocational guidance needs of young people in Greece. Available literature on the following topics was reviewed: transitions of young people to economically active life; available vocational guidance services; transitions of youth from education to work; youths who abandon compulsory education; and young women with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling Services
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1980
This report examines the causes and consequences of youth unemployment in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries. Summarized first is the youth unemployment situation since the 1974/1975 recession. In a section on recent developments in youth labor markets a series of tables and graphs provide data on youth…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Demography, Economic Climate
Chung, H. C. – 1983
A study assessed the employment and training needs of Hispanics in Connecticut. As part of a research project entitled the Survey of Hispanics in Connecticut, trained bilingual interviewers surveyed 500 randomly selected Hispanic households in seven major cities in Connecticut. This survey sample represented approximately 1.5 percent of the total…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Communication Problems, Dropout Rate
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation and Research (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This factbook on youth employment contains 58 graphs and tables of data concerning social and economic indicators of the employment and employability development of youth aged 14 to 24 as per 1979. Indicators examined are population growth and distribution, marital and family status, educational status, labor force and employment status by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Crime, Delinquency
Borus, Michael E., Ed. – 1984
This collection consists of analyses based on data from the 1979, 1980, and 1981 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth Labor Market Experience. In a paper entitled "A Description of Employed and Unemployed Youth in 1981," Michael E. Borus describes employed, unemployed, and discouraged workers between the ages of 16 and 21. Next, Tom K.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Employment, Black Youth, Delinquency
Freeman, Richard B.; And Others – 1980
This collection of papers on the youth employment problem consists of 15 papers that cover the dimensions, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment and that also focus on problems in measuring the extent of the problem, the dynamic aspects of youth labor force participation, and problems associated with adequately assessing the consequences…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Demography