A REVIEW OF LITERATURE TREATING NATIONAL, STATE, AND REGIONAL INFORMATION RELATING TO "HARVESTING,""PRIMARY MANUFACTURING," AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY REVEALED THERE HAVE BEEN FEW STUDIES OF EMPLOYEES AND THE KINDS OF JOBS THEY PERFORM. THE TOTAL CONTRIBUTION OF THE TIMBER-BASED INDUSTRY WAS ABOUT 25 BILLION DOLLARS…

This publication is the second of four volumes of "Tomorrow's Manpower Needs," which are devoted to the subject of national, state, and area projections of manpower requirements. This volume presents a discussion of industry employment trends, and the occupational structure and projections of manpower requirements for each major industry in the…

Many service industries are capital intensive, and the range of expansion in output per hour is not significantly different from that found among goods-producing industries. (Author/SSH)

Annual productivity increases averaged 2.4 percent during 1963-79, slowing since 1972 to 1.5 percent; computer-assisted design and product standardization aided growth in output per employee-hour. (Author)

Tables and charts developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor illustrate: (1) trends in employment, (2) proportion of workers in white collar, blue collar, service, and farm jobs, (3) membership in unions, (4) areas of rapid job growth, (5) percent change in employment by industry, (6) occupational trends, (7)…

Examined in this paper is the importance of industrial sectors for the process of earnings determination. Findings indicate that there are significant differences in labor force composition and economic status between core and periphery industrial sectors. (Author/EB)

Cluster analysis grouped 621 jobs into 6 "contours" showing that from 1973-1990 employment distribution shifted away from 2 middle-quality to the 2 highest-quality contours; no change was apparent in the 2 lowest quality. Black and Hispanic men were affected by a worsening job mix and drop in the quality of low-skill jobs. Women experienced a…

The paternalistic industrial system is not likely to be discarded soon; in today's fast-moving economy, it affords cost flexibility and employment security. (Editor)

In the 1980s, men's average earnings declined and percentage with low earnings increased, largely because of technological change. Shifts in industrial employment patterns affected African Americans' earnings more than whites' or Hispanics', although educational upgrading helped hold down the growth of low earnings. (SK)

This publication is the third of four volumes of "Tomorrow's Manpower Needs," which are devoted to the subject of national, state, and area projections of manpower requirements. This volume presents information on the national employment trends and projected 1975 requirements for workers in nine major occupational groups and 40 selected…

This report series defines and measures the "information activity" within the national economy. "Information activity" is defined to include those specific industries and occupations whose primary function is to produce, process, or transmit economically valuable information. Changes in the national labor force are analyzed…

Contingent workers are those employed in jobs that do not fit the traditional description of a full-time, permanent job with benefits. Contingent work takes the form of part-time, temporary, and contract employment. The number of contingent workers in 1988 has been estimated at between 29.9 and 36.6 million, representing 25-30 percent of the…

This paper, in "Part I--Trends in Industrial Development"--notes that industrial development is continuing in developing countries, but with such discontinuity, diversity, and selectivity that generalizations are difficult. In the first development decade (the 1960's), industrialization did not fulfill expectations, and gaps in economic status…

Comparison of intragenerational mobility of black and white men shows the following: (1) black upward mobility is less frequent and more restricted; (2) blacks within the public sector have substantial rates of upward mobility to nonmanagerial positions; and (3) discrimination against blacks in the labor market has not disappeared. (Author/PS)