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Mott, Frank L.; Shaw, Lois B. – 1978
A study was conducted on the transition to adulthood among women, age fourteen through twenty-four, who were high school dropouts or who did not attend college immediately after high school. Data for 1968-73 was gathered in interviews and from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience. The information obtained was related to the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Blacks, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis
Court, David – 1972
Despite rising sentiment, the decision to "de-school" society seems premature unless it derives from a comparative empirical assessment of school and nonschool educational programs' relative contributions to national goals. One of many new alternative systems, Kenya's village polytechnics (low-cost primary training centers in rural…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Development, Community Attitudes, Community Responsibility
Walwei, Ulrich; Werner, Heinz; Konig, Ingeborg – 2001
This document contains three papers from an international conference on "ways and means for more employment." The first paper, "Employment Policy Comparisons and Policy Advice" (Ulrich Walwei), covers the German labor market in the second half of the 1990s and requirements for longer-term employment success through coping with…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Economic Development