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Download full textBrown, Bettina Lankard – 1998
Options for flexible work schedules such as job sharing, compressed work weeks, reduced hours, work at home, and flextime have provided employees with the means to realize a better balance between work and family and engage simultaneously in more than one endeavor (for example, school and work or two careers). The same options can also lead to…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Demography, Education Work Relationship
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1993
This report examines training provided to young persons by employers during the 1986-90 period. Data from the Youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys provided information on a sample of young men and women who were between the ages of 14 and 22 in 1979 and who have been interviewed annually since then. The study focused on three…
Descriptors: Blacks, Demography, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1993
Recent changes in the structure of wages and in employer-provided benefits made available to young workers were examined. Changes in the wage structure and in benefits were compared by educational level. Data from the Youth, Young Men, and Young Women's cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys provided information on a sample of young men and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Demography, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison
Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
This report was prepared because of the growing national interest in the questions of work and family dynamics. It puts together 82 key statistics on work and family issues in four major areas: child care, parental leave, alternative work schedules, and elder care. In addition, a chapter of miscellaneous statistics covers areas such as the…
Descriptors: Adults, Day Care, Demography, Employed Women
Meier, Gretl S. – 1979
Job sharing, a new option in permanent part-time employment, is attracting national attention as a viable alternative to more traditional patterns of work. Job sharing is defined as an arrangement whereby two employees hold a position together, whether they are as a team jointly responsible for the whole or separately for each half, dividing time,…
Descriptors: Demography, Employed Women, Employee Responsibility, Employer Employee Relationship
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. General Government Div. – 1992
The tremendous growth in the number of women in the labor force has dramatically changed the world of work. Traditional human resources policies were not designed for this new workforce. Federal regulations prohibit federal workers from using any of their sick leave to care for a child or a parent. To learn about nonfederal work/family efforts,…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Demography
Barrett, Nancy S. – 1984
As increasing numbers of women make the transition from the household sector into the labor market, dramatic changes in household composition have occurred that have thrust many women into the role of provider. This new role for women has led to dramatic and rapid changes in attitudes, as well as in the institutions and laws relating to women's…
Descriptors: Day Care, Demography, Economic Change, Economic Status
