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Kathleen Bolter, Contributor; Tim Bartik, Contributor; Brad Hershbein, Contributor; Michelle Miller-Adams, Contributor; Lee Adams, Contributor; Brian Asquith, Contributor; Alfonso Hernandez, Contributor; Kyle Huisman, Contributor; Iryna V. Lendel, Contributor; Gabrielle Pepin, Contributor; Bridget Timmeney, Contributor; Beth Truesdale, Contributor; Yulya Truskinovsky, Contributor – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
The Policies for Place initiative at the Upjohn Institute brings together experts from around the country to study community-based strategies to create good jobs--and how to help people get and keep those good jobs. This initiative represents a unique approach to helping people in distressed places: (1) focus on good jobs because research shows…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Place Based Education, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
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Megan Andrew; Jonah Kushner; Lucas Greer; Christine Mulhern; Jenna W. Kramer; Daniel Schwam – RAND Corporation, 2024
Many states, including Ohio, intend to strengthen and grow their computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) workforces. Jobs in CS and IT are projected to grow in coming years, but it is not always clear how states can expand and diversify their CS and IT workforces. In this report, the authors leverage representative national and state…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Information Technology, Labor Force Development, Job Development
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Megan Andrew; Christine Mulhern; Jenna W. Kramer; Jonah Kushner; Lucas Greer; Daniel Schwam – RAND Corporation, 2024
The number of jobs in computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) is projected to grow rapidly in the United States over the next decade as the demand for workers expands and current CS and IT workers retire. Against the larger backdrop of growth in CS and IT employment and wages nationally, Ohio is looking for ways to grow and diversify…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Information Technology, Labor Force Development, Job Development
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Sawada, Yasuyuki – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Infrastructure investments play a particularly important role in expanding overall employment opportunities either directly by absorbing workers or indirectly by crowding in private investments, technology adoption,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Development, Labor Force Development, Job Skills
Anthony P. Carnevale; Nicole Smith; Martin Van Der Werf; Michael C. Quinn – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2023
Over the past century, the United States workforce has undergone a massive structural shift. Technological change has moved the economy toward skilled labor and away from unskilled labor--a phenomenon known as skill-biased technical change. This structural shift has increased the relative demand for educated and skilled labor, leading to…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Technology, Job Development, Job Layoff
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2023
This appendix documents the methodology used by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce to project educational demand within the US economy. The methodology produces forecasts using data from two private analytics companies. The authors use occupational forecasts provided by Lightcast that are calibrated to total employment…
Descriptors: Economics, Employment Projections, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2023
The staggering highs and lows of the recent US economy and their effect on the labor force has been deeply unsettling. The US has come through the COVID-19 recession, the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, followed by the quickest recovery ever. One trend in the workforce has remained unaltered throughout this historic change:…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Technology, Job Development, Job Layoff
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2023
This report projects education requirements linked to forecasted job growth for all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 2021 through 2031. It complements a larger national report that projects education demand by occupation and industry for the same period. The national report finds that by 2031, 72 percent of all jobs nationally will…
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Background, Technology, Job Development
National Skills Coalition, 2021
The need to invest in our nation's crumbling infrastructure goes back decades. But today, with millions of people unemployed, there is unprecedented momentum to act. Women, immigrants, and people of color are disproportionately represented in these numbers as are young adults. President Joe Biden and Congress are counting on infrastructure…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Public Policy, Federal Legislation, Investment
National Governors Association, 2019
This guide is a result of the 2018-2019 National Governors Association (NGA) Chair's initiative, "Good Jobs for All Americans," led by Montana Governor Steve Bullock. This initiative aimed to understand the changing world of work and the factors that affect an individual's ability to connect to a good job and for businesses to access the…
Descriptors: Job Development, Employment Opportunities, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship
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Chukwumezie, F. U.; Osapka, David U. – African Educational Research Journal, 2015
This study investigated entrepreneurship opportunities and Nigerian graduates' unemployment in south-east and south-south geopolitical zones. The study adopted a survey-descriptive design because the events had taken place in their natural course of happening. Two hundred lecturers and Entrepreneurship Development Centers' Staff constituted the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Entrepreneurship, Employment Opportunities
Colleges Ontario, 2013
The priority for the Ontario government--for its economic ministries, its education ministries, and for the entire government--must be economic growth and helping more people find good jobs. This is particularly important for the province's young people. Far too many young people are unemployed or underemployed and are giving up hope of finding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
Cleary, Jennifer; Van Noy, Michelle – John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, 2014
The Great Recession and several other factors have heightened concerns among policymakers and the public at large about higher education's role in employment, leading to a renewed wave of pressures, policies, and incentives to create job-driven strategies at all levels. Policymakers and the public often assume that aligning higher education with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Alignment (Education), Education Work Relationship
Public Impact, 2012
This brief summarizes the ways that schools and their teachers can simultaneously reach more students with excellent teaching, expand teachers' career opportunities, and sustainably fund higher pay and other priorities. This is based on Public Impact's school models that use job redesign and technology to extend the reach of excellent teachers to…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Teacher Effectiveness
Goering, Barton L. – School Administrator, 2012
During the summer of 2010, school districts across the country reported almost daily on their plans to lay off staff because of sharp declines in aid. Hundreds of thousands of teachers' jobs were on the line. If these losses materialized, class sizes would skyrocket and educational enrichment activities would be lost. Some districts shortened…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Advocacy, Educational Finance
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