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Sum, Andrew M. – Monthly Labor Review, 1977
Describes the growth of the female civilian labor force in the Nation from 1950 to 1975 and analyzes the upward shift in the civilian labor force participation rate from a flow perspective to determine the role of various factors that have produced the rise in the civilian labor force participation rate of women. (SH)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics
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Fullerton, Howard N. – Monthly Labor Review, 1982
Points out that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has repeatedly underestimated the projected number of persons in the labor force, primarily by overestimating the male labor force and grossly underestimating the female labor force. Analyzes the data and suggests guidelines for their use. (JOW)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Labor Force
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Sweet, James A. – Rural Sociology, 1972
Revised version of a paper presented at the 1971 annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society in Denver. (FF)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
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Gottfredson, Linda S. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
The composition of employment was examined using 1970 census data for employed civilians, Holland's occupational typology, and a prestige scale. Results indicate areas where women and Blacks are under- and over-represented. (Author)
Descriptors: Blacks, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
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Polachek, Solomon William – Journal of Human Resources, 1975
The paper illustrates both theoretically and empirically that being married and having children have opposite effects on the wage rates of husbands and wives, and further that these diverging wage patterns are perpetuated over the length of the marriage. (Author)
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Spencer, Byron G.; Featherstone, Dennis C. – 1970
This study investigates the role of several important factors in terms of their influence on the supply of married women in Canada's labor force. The factors include income, child status, region of residence, family, holdings of assets and debts, labor force status of the husband, presence of other adults in the family, and residence in a…
Descriptors: Cross Sectional Studies, Demography, Economic Factors, Employed Women
Gordon, R. A. – Thrust: The Journal for Employment and Training Professionals, 1979
Suggests both the need and the methods for disaggregating the goal of full employment. Analyzes the categories of age, sex, race, and marital and economic status in determining the composition of unemployment. Stresses the need for measures that would reduce unacceptably high unemployment rates. Statistical tables examine the distribution of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
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Grossman, Allyson Sherman – Monthly Labor Review, 1977
Statistics in this study demonstrate that, on average, separated women are more likely than divorced women to have children and to have lower levels of education, employment, and income. Nevertheless, divorced women are not well off either, particularly when their high labor force participation rate and comparatively low family income are…
Descriptors: Divorce, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
Fligstein, Neil; Wolf, Wendy – 1976
Since research on sex differences in occupational attainment suggests that working men and women attain essentially the same mean level of occupational attainment and do so through quite similar processes, the censoring problem as a potential source of bias in estimating equations for these comparative occupational attainments is investigated.…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Experience, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Walwei, Ulrich; Werner, Heinz – IAB Labour Market Research Topics, 1996
The feasibility of policies encouraging more part-time employment as a cure for unemployment in Germany was examined through a comparison of the employment policies and labor markets of selected Organization for Economic Development (OECD) countries and the United States. OECD labor force statistics for the years 1972-1992 were analyzed to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Brown, Randall S.; And Others – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1980
Multinomial logic and multiple discriminant analyses are used to predict probabilities that individuals will attain several occupational categories based on individual characteristics and qualifications. The authors found that their results vary substantially from women's actual occupational distribution. They conclude that a significant portion…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Qualifications
Roos, Patricia A. – 1978
Using data from 1974 to 1977 National Opinion Research Center Surveys, the investigator examined differentials in income between currently employed white men and women aged 25 to 64 (sample size: 965 men and 672 women). Special attention was given to explanatory effects of occupational characteristics other than those traditionally used in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1970
This booklet on women workers of minority races includes all races in a minority other than white, Negroes constituting about 90 percent of all persons other than white in the United States; Spanish-speaking persons are included in the white population. The following topics are encompassed; labor force participation; unemployment; marital status;…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Dropout Characteristics, Employed Women
Vatter, Ethel L. – 1974
The study examines the increasing levels of female labor in the economy over the period between 1940 and 1970. Married women with husbands present show the most pronounced increase in participation rates with increases in every age group. Chart 1 and Table 1 present data on the percentage of women in the U. S. labor force over this period by both…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Employed Women
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. Office of Communications Services. – 1979
In a survey by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), women are shown to hold 2,905 of the 13,638 administrative positions reported by 106 major U.S. public universities--slightly more than 21 percent of the administrators at state and land-grant universities. The median number of women administrators at…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Department Heads
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