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Peer reviewedMason, Geoff – Journal of Education and Work, 2002
In Britain, the retailing, computer services, transportation, and communications industries have hired increasing numbers of college graduates, both because of demand for skills and oversupply of graduates. This has contributed to temporary and permanent job upgrading through expansion of tasks and responsibilities in certain jobs. (Contains 14…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Development
Peer reviewedSloan, Judith; Wooden, Mark – Australian Bulletin of Labour, 1992
The Australian labor market in 1992 was characterized by (1) high unemployment; (2) variability across states; (3) long-term unemployment; (4) government focus on infrastructure projects; (5) emphasis on training; and (6) enterprise bargaining in industrial relations. (SK)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries, Job Development
Rosen, Howard, Ed. – 1986
These five papers underscore the fact that the labor market policies of Japan, West Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia are similar in many ways. The papers are "Japanese Labor Market Policies" (Koji Taira), "The Labor Market Policies of West Germany" (Deborah R. Cichon), "The Management of the U.K. Labour…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Employment Programs, Foreign Countries
Haveman, Robert H., Ed.; Palmer, John L., Ed. – 1982
These nine papers are from a conference held at Brookings Institution on April 3-4, 1980, focusing on subsidizing private sector job creation for workers with structural employment problems. Chapter 1 summarizes the papers and conference proceedings. The remaining nine chapters are divided into three parts consisting of three papers each. Part 1…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Categorical Aid, Cost Effectiveness
Download full textDacus, 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
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1974
The examination of Irish manpower policy is largely devoted to a consideration of the strategy for economic development and permanent job creation--as well as to a study of various aspects of the procedures and administrative arrangements adopted to attain these objectives. Attention is drawn to the fundamental imbalances in the Irish…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Change Strategies, Economic Development, 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
