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Mirengoff, William, Ed. – 1976
This document provides eight case studies of implementation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), P.L. 93-203, which decentralized manpower programs by transferring program administration to state and local authorities. The studies reported were implemented in Kansas, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, and California.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Employment, Federal Legislation, Job Training
Feifer, Irwin; And Others – 1972
In its attempts to apply behavior modification principles to teaching job-required behaviors to manpower trainees, the Mobilization for Youth-Experimental Manpower Laboratory (MFY-EML), has mounted a number of reinforcement-based Neighborhood Youth Corps training programs. The nature, magnitude and scheduling of reinforcers, the nature of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Modification, Disadvantaged, Employment
Littlejohn (Roy) Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1976
Vanguards in Training presents, in summary form, the National Training System's (NTS) Training Grant Program supported throughout the Nation by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to increase the skills, career mobility, and credentials of drug abuse prevention, treatment, and research personnel. The program summaries speak for themselves…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Educational Programs, Employment
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 Labour Office, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1967
Major manpower and social problems encountered by developing countries in the process of industrial development, and action to be taken both at the national and international levels comprise the substantive focus of this document. The document is a collection of papers prepared by the International Labor Office. Part I, "Manpower for Industry,"…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Programs, Educational Strategies, Employment
Vrooman, John – 1979
Recurring evidence that workers with similar skills do not necessarily earn the same wages led to the formulation of an alternative to the conventional market theory, namely, the segmented market theory. This theory posits that certain skills are distributed not among prospective employees but among jobs, in relation to the technology of those…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Education, Employment, Employment Qualifications
Workforce Policies for the 1990s. A New Labor Market Agenda. The Possibilities of Employment Policy.
Marshall, Ray; Osterman, Paul – 1989
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) was founded in 1986 with the intent of widening the debate on U.S. economic policies by presenting analyses that provide an alternative point of view from those of various conservative research institutions. The two papers presented in this document were originally prepared for a seminar designed to identify…
Descriptors: Adults, Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Community Programs
Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 1968
THE MANPOWER MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE CONGRESS, DELIVERED JANUARY 23, 1967, IN WHICH HE PROPOSED THE LARGEST MANPOWER PROGRAM YET UNDERTAKEN BY THE NATION IS PRESENTED. THE SIXTH MANPOWER REPORT, THE MAJOR PART OF THIS DOCUMENT, ASSESSES ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SHORTCOMINGS OF EFFORTS DIRECTED TOWARD NATIONAL MANPOWER OBJECTIVES. NEW GROUND IS…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Economic Factors, Educational Needs, Employment
Adams, John F.; And Others – 1977
Focusing on the factors inhibiting the labor market's adjustment to economic change, the study examined the economic and social problems facing southern rural areas and populations, including Chicanos and migrants. Factors were in the areas of the labor market behavior, income and earnings, poverty, welfare system and welfare reform, manpower…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Black Employment, Economic Development, Economic Research