Economists agree neither on the means for assessing education's contribution to the growth of productivity in the national economy nor on the role of education in the recent slowdown in productivity growth. Consequently, neither economists nor educators can confidently recommend a set of policies that will clearly lead to increases in education's…

Technological change will contribute significantly to growth in employment opportunities and wages. However, workers in specific occupations and industries may have to move among jobs and careers. Slow adoption by U.S. firms of productivity-increasing technologies is likely to cause more job displacement than their rapid adoption. New technologies…

This report describes the main areas of economic research supported by the Ford Foundation in the 1970s, with an emphasis on the work in international economics. It is divided into five sections: the international economy, less-developed countries (LDCs) and the new economic order, the industrialized world and inflation, workers and wages, and…

Social mobility is generally studied in three different ways: stratum mobility, intergenerational social mobility, and intragenerational or career mobility. This paper deals with the first two types of mobility and more with intergenerational mobility than with stratum mobility. The working hypothesis of both discussions is that, in general, a…

Income inequality in the United States displays considerable variance since the seventeenth century. There is no eternal constancy to the degree of inequality in total income, in labor earnings, or in income from conventional nonhuman wealth either before or after the effects of government taxes and spending. When all the necessary adjustments to…

"Tightrope" is a simulation based on economic stability and growth in a country. Several small groups of students, acting as Economic Advisory Councils, make fiscal and monetary policy decisions for their country based on their knowledge of business cycles, monetary policy, and fiscal policy. In each of the four rounds the Advisory Councils study…

This book contains four papers by noted educational planning experts that, together, cover practically all the implications of undertaking 'futurological' studies in education. Louis Emmery, in his "Alternative Educational Futures and Educational Policy-Planning," summarizes the three papers that comprise the remainder of the document and stresses…

This selected bibliography focuses on the Near East and North Africa. Among the topics covered are: Documentary Collections, History, Politics, and International Relations, Islam and the Islamic World, the Arabs, Geography, Art, Literature, Education and Sociocultural Patterns, and Economics, Labor and Oil. An introduction to the series is in SO…

This economics package course, designed for school districts wishing to give further in-service training to teachers of grades one through eight, offers seven original and three recent additional lessons. Supplementing teachers' guides, the objective of the handbook is to give teachers confidence in teaching economics and, further, enthusiasm…

This policy statement looks at America's basic research enterprise and lays out the processes and systematic reforms needed to meet emerging risks to the outcomes from investments in basic research. The Committee for Economic Development (CED) undertook this project in the belief that significant progress with many of society's problems and new…

Recent research findings on the economic implications of investments in the quality of education are examined in this report. "The Quality of Education and Economic Growth: A Review of Literature" (Lewis C. Solmon) reviews evidence on ways to develop educational policy that would stimulate economic growth in developing countries. "School Quality…

It is the theme of this paper that economic prosperity and public education are inseparable; yet, both are lacking in Louisiana. The lack of excellence in education is a liability for stimulating and accelerating the growth and diversification of business and industry. In particular, educational mediocrity is evidenced in the following: (1)…

The twin goals of this guide are to provide a greater understanding of basic economic concepts and an insight into Japanese culture. Economic concepts emphasized are: (1) scarcity; (2) choice; (3) production; (4) markets; (5) specialization and exchange; (6) sources of income; (7) free enterprise; and (8) marketing the product. Classroom…

The study of families who escaped poverty examined the relationship between possession of selected demographic, resource, social, and value characteristics and economic situation and attempted to determine which traits most significantly affected the ability to escape poverty. From personal interviews with a stratified cross-sectional unrestricted…

TWENTY-NINE REPRESENTATIVES OF MANAGEMENT, TRADE UNIONS, AND GOVERNMENTS FROM 28 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATED IN A STUDY COURSE DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD ALREADY ACQUIRED SOME EXPERIENCE WITH LABOR PROBLEMS AND HELD, OR WERE LIKELY TO HOLD, POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY IN THE FIELD OF LABOR. ADDRESSED TO QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE LABOR FORCE AND ITS…