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Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Since U.S. economic growth began to slow in 2006, both the Bush and Obama Administrations have enacted a number of fairly costly programs designed to stimulate the economy and employment growth. Because many of these programs are fairly new, there has been little comprehensive examination of their impacts, but initial analysis suggests that these…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Employment Patterns, Human Capital, Labor Market
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Lee, Eddy – International Labour Review, 1996
Despite concerns that globalization will increase unemployment and wage inequality, drive down wages and labor standards, and threaten national policy autonomy, it is clear that national policies still determine employment levels and labor standards. However, the need to protect those damaged by globalization still exists. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Labor Market
Russell, Thyra K. – 1988
This paper reports the results of a survey of 1,277 libraries in Illinois which investigated the status of job sharing in armed forces, college and university, community college, government, law, medical, public, religious, and special libraries and library systems. Job sharing is described as the division of one full-time job between two or more…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Flexible Working Hours, Job Sharing
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Reich, Robert B. – Dissent, 1992
U.S. business has spent very little on educating workers and pay a far smaller proportion of local taxes than formerly. Corporations are increasingly finding skilled, less expensive workers abroad or through immigration. Global capital cannot create high-wage jobs in the United States without skilled workers and a first-class infrastructure. (SK)
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Corporate Education, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
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Kahnweiler, William M; Kahnweiler, Jennifer B. – Journal of Career Development, 1992
A few corporations are responding to the impact of family structural changes on workers' ability to balance their roles with flexible benefits and schedules and with training. Work/family issues are an integral part of career and life decision making and must be incorporated into the career development process. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development, Dual Career Family
Hovey, Harold A. – 1985
Federal tax policy could affect employment policy through the following four provisions: the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC), employment incentives in enterprise zone legislation, individual training accounts (ITAs), and employer reimbursement of employee educational expenses. The TJTC and enterprise zone proposals are both attempts to cause…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
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George, Janet – Vestes, 1982
Because of attitudes and policies, women academics are clustered in service rather than career areas of their professions. The social and academic results of this underrepresentation include the loss of valuable contributions from women. Policy areas needing change are employment conditions, inclusion in decision making, and child care. (MSE)
Descriptors: Careers, College Faculty, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
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Ison, Terence G. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1993
This article describes the Japanese quota system for the employment of people with disabilities and assesses the potential of a quota law that includes financial incentives for compliance. It concludes that laws to compel the employment of people with disabilities are unlikely to be effective and may be counterproductive. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities
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Allen, Claudia – Journal of Career Planning & Employment, 1995
Ann McLaughlin, a former secretary of labor, discusses her views on the future of the workplace. She feels that to solve the impending problem of educational deficits among the work force, employers will begin their own educational programs, improving both employee loyalty and work force mobility. Includes predictions for future growth fields.…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Higher Education
Hagemo, Sharon J. – 1997
Change is the most prominent characteristic of society and business today. Change is driven by people, technology, and information. In order to remain competitive in the job market, people must constantly update their knowledge. The education system must be evaluated and changed to meet the needs of the economy. Parents and educators need to…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Employment Potential
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Selvadurai, Ranjani H. – Community Review, 1990
Reviews trends in the employment of part-time faculty, sources of part timers, and rationales for hiring them. Summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of employing part-time faculty, concluding that financial constraints will ensure their continued place in higher education. Advocates the development of appropriate recruitment, orientation,…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Educational Trends, Employment Patterns
Wheelock, Verner, Ed. – 1981
This report presents keynote papers and summaries of panel discussions from a conference dealing with such issues as future career patterns in the United Kingdom (UK), the impact of microelectronic technology on the workforce, and the role of education in preparing persons for careers in an information society. Verner Wheelock describes the growth…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship, Electronic Equipment, Employment Opportunities
Freedman, Audrey – 1986
There has been a long-term rise in the relative share of the total number of workers engaged in producing intangible goods or services. Since 1967, this shift to employment in the service sector has been accommodated by a relative decline in manufacturing. Other trends that have taken place over the last decades and are likely to continue are…
Descriptors: Demography, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Futures (of Society)
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1985
This Congressional report contains the testimony given at a hearing pertaining to passage of the Youth Employment Opportunity Wage Act of 1985. (The act, which would terminate in September 1987, would authorize an employer to pay a subminimum, "youth employment opportunity wage" to a person under 20 years of age.) Included among those…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Federal Legislation
American Federation of Teachers, 2004
A growing component of the instructional workforce in higher education, graduate teaching and research assistants are frequently viewed by university administrators and trustees as students rather than employees, according to this American Federation of Teachers (AFT) report. As the number of new full-time faculty hired decreases, an increased…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employment Practices, Employees, Unions
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