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Scully-Russ, Ellen – Adult Learning, 2013
This article examines policy reports that advocate for new green jobs career pathways to help grow the green economy and create new opportunity structures in the green labor market. The reports are based on a series of propositions about the nature of green jobs and the existence of the political will to invest in new green education programs to…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Labor Market, Position Papers, Career Development
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Killingsworth, John; Grosskopf, Kevin R. – Adult Learning, 2013
With high unemployment and structural changes to industry, workforce development in the United States is a growing concern. Many semiskilled workers lack knowledge, skills, and abilities to be competitive for reemployment to green jobs. Nebraska's syNErgy research grant was introduced to address the training needs of unemployed and underemployed…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Semiskilled Workers, Emerging Occupations, Educational Needs
Fields, Jacqueline P. – 1985
This document is the final technical report of a study concerned with career transitions of women in professional occupations. The report was written to examine: (1) distinctive factors in women's career development related to their occupational concentration in typically female occupations; (2) midlife career transitions in general and in…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, Emerging Occupations, Employed Women