The impact on education of the near full employment in Massachusetts is analyzed. The document covers such probable impact areas as effects of the shortage on various job categories in school systems, characteristics of applicants, hiring strategies, and future plans. Data were gathered from telephone interviews with school system representatives…

The metropolitan Miami area is a thriving bilingual community that uniquely exemplifies the utility of Spanish for business careers. Miami is unique in its large Latin population, the success of this population, and the proximity of Miami to the Caribbean and Latin American markets. The impact of the Latin population of Miami on education and…

United States economic courses of action--and inaction--are increasingly being based on the employment and unemployment figures put out monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Yet, the basic statistical concepts that are still used were fashioned during the Great Depression and do not take into account the very different conditions we…

Minnesota and national employment statistics show that there is a significant imbalance between men and women in administrative positions. Causes of this condition are attributed to stereotyped role definitions learned by males and females very early in life, leading to lower job aspirations and the acquiring of minimal professional or vocational…

As a result of a 1997 change in federal law, this on-going 5-year study evaluated the effects of elimination of some prior regulations on the employment choices of 854 Wyoming adults in the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Service Waiver program. The study examined who worked, who wanted to work, the average hours worked, the average percentage…

A review of the literature indicated that few empirical studies have been conducted on either what factors influence or what factors deter women from pursuing information technology (IT) careers. Much of the information that is available is anecdotal. Several studies have focused on broader areas of women in science and/or technology; however,…

Library historians and historians of literacy have been more creative than journalism historians in using individual-level historical data such as deeds, wills, depositions, surveys, and census figures to study reading behaviors of the past. For example, the series of family cost of living surveys conducted in the United States by state and…

This document contains one of two reports presented at the Governor's National Forum on Youth Employment, May 22-23, 1980. Focusing on the issue of youth employment, this report is divided into seven sections. Section 1 discusses the high national youth unemployment rate. Section 2 describes a variety of factors pertinent to youth unemployment and…

This presentation reports on a study of the participation of women in public school administrative positions for the St. Louis Metropolitan Area (1968-9 through 1975-6). While the numbers and percentages of women in administration generally increased, these findings need to be qualified. First, when the number of administrators increased, men…

In recent years, researchers have been questioning the assumption that more education necessarily guarantees workers greater occupational payoffs. This study examines overeducation in the American work force in terms of its frequency; segments of the work force in which it is most common; its relationship to job dissatisfaction, low self-esteem,…

Data collected from 1967 to 1972 during the National Longitudinal Surveys was used to examine the labor force behavior of the mature women's cohort (women who were thirty to forty-four years old in 1967) as well as their attitudes toward work and home. The findings include the following: while white women increased their labor force participation…

After asserting that public institutions should not provide training for nonexistent jobs, this paper reviews problems associated with the accurate prediction of future manpower needs. The paper reviews the processes currently used to project labor force needs and notes the difficulty of accurately forecasting labor market "surprises,"…

Nine papers presented at the conference on Employment Statistics and Youth are presented. Focusing on the meaning of unemployment counts in the U.S., the first three papers are Measurement and Interpretation of Teenage Unemployment in the United States and Other Countries, by Beatrice Reubens; What Do Teenage Unemployment Statistics Measure?, by…

Sixty-four women who hold positions in educational administration completed questionnaires describing themselves, their professional aspirations, their experience in seeking employment as administrators, the roadblocks they believe limit their careers, and the factors that have contributed to their success. Almost all the respondents hold one or…

The document, part of a series of chapters described in SO 011 759, presents an overview of theories about the labor market structure, suggests hypotheses about patterns of job shifts, and describes methods and results of testing these hypotheses. Three sections comprise the document. Section I defines basic labor market terms. Section II…