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Farooq, Ghazi M.; MacKellar, F. Landis – International Labour Review, 1990
The authors contend that problems associated with rapid population growth in developing countries must be tackled through comprehensive planning. They discuss impacts of demography on labor supply and demand and migration. Then they propose a practical framework for population and human resource development planning and policy formation. (SK)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
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Gozalez, Andrew – Higher Education, 1992
Solutions to two problems in Philippine higher education and employment are proposed: for disciplines with too many graduates, overseas employment is recommended; for those with too few graduates, an incentive system tied to mandatory service is suggested. Problems and advantages of government regulation of labor supply and demand are discussed.…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Employment Patterns, Faculty Mobility, Foreign Countries
Grant, Geraldine – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1983
Suggests that immigration entails redefinition of sex roles and kin obligations in immigrant families; reveals a trend toward increasingly differentiated nuclear families among immigrants; and identifies pressures that may make immigrant families more susceptible to instability than American families, and countervailing forces that may contribute…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Employment Patterns
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Frey, William H. – Urban Studies, 1993
Evaluates three broad dimensions of new urban-growth and urban-decline patterns in the United States on the basis of results from the 1990 census. These dimensions involve new patterns of urbanization, the expanded growth of the nation's minority populations, and the continued spread of population and jobs outward from central cities. (GLR)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Economic Climate, Employment Patterns
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Morokvasic, Mirjana – International Migration Review, 1984
Introduces a special issue on women and migration. Discusses immigrant women's participation within the world labor market, the ideologies affecting them, the effects of migration on sex roles and family patterns, and women's reasons for migration. Also discusses sex biases in research and policymaking concerning migration. (KH)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Family Relationship
Deavers, Kenneth L. – 1987
Knowledge of major economic forces shaping the future of rural America provides insights about the likely importance and effectiveness of various broad program alternatives as components of a rural development policy. The rural economic base was transformed during the 1960s and 1970s from a primary dependence on natural resource activities,…
Descriptors: Change, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
Mazey, Mary Ellen; Lee, David R. – 1983
Presented from a geographical perspective, this book examines major themes of human geography by drawing from the literature on feminism. The book is arranged into four parts. Part 1 examines sex ratios throughout the world, geographical distribution of female rights and status, spatial patterns of the Equal Rights Amendment ratification, the…
Descriptors: Abortions, Contraception, Demography, Employment Patterns
Kissam, Edward; Intili, Jo Ann; Garcia, Anna – 2001
The U.S. agricultural labor market is already, in many respects, a binational one, and it will become increasingly one in which workers who are born in Mexico will follow a variety of worklife trajectories that take them back and forth between both countries. Recognition of this reality has important implications for policy development and program…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescents, Braceros, Child Labor