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Download full textWilliams, C. Brian – 1968
This bibliography is composed of 1,125 citations ranging in date from 1960 to 1966 with a number of pioneering studies, published in the late 1950's, also included. Studies conducted in Canada and the United States are reported for the broad field of manpower and employment. Part I focuses on topics in the fields of employment and unemployment.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Bibliographies, Employment, Foreign Countries
Muhammadi, Ed. – 1976
The report of the Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development Workshop held in Vientiane, Laos, December 1974 is presented. The workshop focused on three main issues: national development strategies and high-level manpower needs; the responses of universities of high-level manpower requirements; and the employment of university…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, College Graduates, Conference Reports, Developing Nations
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1974
Two elements were identified as being of paramount importance in the examination of manpower policy in Denmark: (1) the division of responsibilities for matters of direct concern to the labor market between different branches of government and the social partners--an important facet of the social framework of a country, and (2) the impact of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Employment
Ailes, Catherine P.; Rushing, Francis W. – 1982
This book represents a comparison of the systems of training and utilization of scientists/engineers in the United States and Soviet Union. Chapter 1 provides a general description of the economic structure and organization in which the training of scientists/engineers is conducted and in which such trained personnel are employed. In chapters 2-5,…
Descriptors: College Science, Employment, Engineering Education, Engineers
International Labour Organisation, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1964
A MONTH-LONG STUDY TOUR PROVIDED 23 OFFICIALS OF 17 DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THE COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF MANPOWER PLANNING AND UTILIZATION EMPLOYED IN THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (USSR) AND TO EXAMINE BASIC PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES WHICH, WITH SUITABLE ADAPTATION, MIGHT HAVE APPLICABILITY TO SIMILAR PROBLEMS…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Projections, Foreign Countries, Human Resources
International Inst. for Labour Studies, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1963
TWENTY-NINE REPRESENTATIVES OF MANAGEMENT, TRADE UNIONS, AND GOVERNMENTS FROM 28 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATED IN A STUDY COURSE DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD ALREADY ACQUIRED SOME EXPERIENCE WITH LABOR PROBLEMS AND HELD, OR WERE LIKELY TO HOLD, POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY IN THE FIELD OF LABOR. ADDRESSED TO QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE LABOR FORCE AND ITS…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Progress, Educational Planning, Educational Sociology
Bowman, Mary Jean; And Others – 1978
Three essays are presented as part of a research project on education and the labor market. The aim of the project is to study long-term relations between education and productivity, with special attention to Swedish higher education. The first essay, by Mary Jean Bowman, deals with some broad issues in the philosophy and methodology of…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Education Work Relationship
Bach, Hans-Uwe; Koch, Susanne – 2003
The Institut fuer Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) or Institute for Employment Research has developed a detailed working time and volume of work measurement concept in order to more comprehensively assess the demand for labor. The individual components of working time in Germany are obtained from various data sources and combined to form…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Economic Factors, Efficiency
Wong, Ging, Ed.; Picot, Garnett, Ed. – 2001
This is the first of two volumes of selected papers presented at the 1996 conference on "Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States." Eleven chapters focus on weekly hours worked by individuals, including the recent changes in the distribution of weekly working time in Canada and the U.S., implications of the changing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Employment, Employment Level
Houseman, Susan, Ed.; Nakamura, Alice, Ed. – 2001
This is the second of two volumes of selected papers presented at the 1996 conference "Changes in Working Hours in Canada and the United States." Eleven chapters explore an expanded set of working-time issues, which may be loosely grouped under these two topics: working time over the life cycle and nonstandard work arrangements.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Career Education, Comparative Analysis
