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Download full textJones, Warren – 1981
A study was conducted in Victoria (Australia) to determine college students', graduates', and employers' expectations and experiences concerning employment after graduation. The study sought answers to the following four questions: (1) What proportion of graduates and diplomates in various fields of study, and at different levels, obtain…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Students, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Beckmann, Petra – 1998
The actual and desired working hours of women in western and eastern Germany were examined by surveying a random sample of 6,742 western and eastern German women aged 18-65 years. Of the women interviewed, 1,800 from western Germany and 1,341 from eastern Germany were in dependent employment. An overall response rate of 52.8% was achieved.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
Dacus, Phyllis, Comp.; Selph, Patricia M., Comp. – 1980
Projects funded by the Office of Research and Development (ORD) of the Employment and Training Administration are summarized in this document. It includes all projects active on September 30, 1980, and all those completed between October 11, 1977, and September 30, 1980. The projects and publications presented in chapters 1-4 are grouped by…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Employment Practices, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
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
Mishel, Lawrence; Bernstein, Jared – 1995
Numerous sources of data about family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth, and poverty were used to analyze the impact of the economy on living standards in the United States in 1994-1995. It was discovered that most individuals in the United States are worse off in the 1990s than they were at the end of the 1970s. Between 1979 and 1989,…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Comparative Analysis, Economic Change, Economic Factors
Rouhelo, Anne; Ruoholinna, Tarita – 2000
Research synthesized from three studies of the Finnish labor market indicates that a rapidly changing working life in Finland (and the rest of Europe) sets many different challenges for the workforce. In Finland, the population is even more aged than in the other European Union (EU) member states, and the transition of older workers to retirement…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Demography
