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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
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Carnevale, Anthony; Smith, Nicole; Strohl, Jeff – Community College Journal, 2013
By 2020, 65 percent of all jobs in the economy will require postsecondary education and training beyond high school. That's a pretty strong statement in defense of the value of higher education in this country. But it will mean little unless the nation's colleges and universities--and, specifically, community colleges--can produce more workers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education, Educational Indicators
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Van Adams, Arvil; And Others – International Labour Review, 1992
Labor market planning techniques must take into account the dynamic nature of economies. A better approach than labor needs forecasting is use of labor market signals developed by monitoring wage and employment changes and evaluating training programs. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Efficiency, Employment Projections, Job Training
Rooney, Joseph J. – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 1975
Advances and employment outlook in the field of computer science are discussed as well as the problems related to improving the quality of computer education. Specific computer jobs discussed include: data processing machine repairers, systems analysts, programmers, computer and peripheral equipment operators, and keypunch operators. (EA)
Descriptors: Careers, Computer Science, Educational Programs, Employment Projections
Striner, Herbert E. – Journal of Industry--Education Cooperation, 1981
Until the United States adopts an investment approach to its labor force and provides adequate funds for continuous upgrading of human resources, the unemployment rate will remain above acceptable levels. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Employment Projections, Human Resources, Job Training
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1974
The bulletin presents projections of the 1985 manpower requirements of 240 occupations for which considerable training is most often required or desirable, and which will comprise an estimated 70 million workers or two-thirds of the civilian labor force at that time. A brief chapter discusses the use of occupational projections and training data…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics
MacFarland, Thomas W. – 1986
The investigation explores the impact that changing economies have had and will continue to have upon Human Resources Development (HRD)--the collective body responsible for training and retraining labor--and from that perspective offers recommendations to improve the impact HRD has upon society. The challenge for HRD is to recognize the economic,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Emerging Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections
CEDEFOP Flash, 1993
The ninth meeting of CEDEFOP (French acronym for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) is summarized in this report. Attending the forum were representatives of the leading vocational training research and development institutions and ministerial departments from the European Community (EC) Member States and from…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Developed Nations
Rathbun, Donald L., Ed.; Burwell, Anne, Ed. – 1971
These five research reviews should be useful to educators concerned with developing and improving vocational education programs. Reviews include: (1) Four longitudinal studies of labor market experience conducted by The Ohio State University Center for Human Resource Research, concerning young men 14-24, young women 14-24, men 45-59, and women…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Apprenticeships, Employed Women, Employment Projections
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1996
Recent studies profiling the United States' current and future work force have identified significant changes in work force demographics, immigration patterns, economic structure, the education-employment connection, and company training investments. Among the specific changes and trends that have been identified are the following: (1) the…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Canada Employment and Immigration Commission, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1990
This study, in English and French, analyzes the trends emerging in labor demand and supply in Canada, and examines the challenges to preparing an adequately trained and prepared workforce. The economy and the labor force seem to be developing along divergent paths, creating a potential gap between the flexibility and skills of workers and the…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Research, Educational Needs, Employment Opportunities
Taylor, William H. – 1982
Exploratory, descriptive research was conducted to identify potential and existing shortages of skilled manpower in the petroleum industry. Data came from interviews with 60 individual companies, governments, industry groups, and professional associations. Company characteristics that were significant determinants of training were size, foreign or…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections, Foreign Countries, Industrial Education
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