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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
Cotner, Hope; Bragg, Debra; Goold, Grant; Heiser, Eric; Miller, Darlene G.; Van Noy, Michelle; Cheng, I-Fang; Costelloe, Sarah; Freeman, Brian; Lemire, Sebastian; Porowski, Allan; Yadav, Elizabeth M. B. – What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
In today's labor market, students increasingly need greater levels of postsecondary education and training to enter or advance in many industries. Meanwhile, employers are calling for the education system to better align with industry needs, as their demands for a skilled workforce continue to rise. In response to the increasing emphasis for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Pathways, Program Design, Program Evaluation
Escobari, Marcela; Seyal, Ian; Meaney, Michael – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2019
Every person deserves the opportunity for dignified employment that provides living wages and potential for advancement. However, for many in America today, this is far from reality, as they are caught in a cycle of low-wage work, earning poverty wages, and unable to move up in the economy. Local leaders, firms, and workers need to adapt quickly…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment, Qualifications, Job Training
Kazis, Richard; Molina, Frieda – MDRC, 2016
WorkAdvance is a sectoral workforce development program designed to meet the needs of workers and employers alike. For unemployed and low-wage working adults, the program provides skills training in targeted sectors that have good-quality job openings with room for advancement within established career pathways. For employers in those sectors,…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Employment Programs, Job Skills, Skill Development
Paryono – International Journal of Training Research, 2011
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) report (2007) highlights that labour productivity, education and migration play important roles in shaping competitiveness, growth and development in Southeast Asia. The statistics also reveal interesting aspects of labour mobility. Thirteen and a half million migrants originate from countries in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Job Training, Job Skills
Karmel, Tom; Misko, Josie; Blomberg, Davinia; Bednarz, Alice; Atkinson, Georgina – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2014
In recent years, the level of participation and attainment by Indigenous Australians in education and training has improved, yet substantial gaps still exist between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians. Education has to be a key focus if the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous employment rates is to be closed. This report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Job Training, Indigenous Populations
Manpower Research Visibility, 1972
Manpower Research Visibility is a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (SB)
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Improvement, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Clarke, John – 1971
Two seminars were held to provide professional staff of the Humanic Designs Corporation, faculty of selected schools of business administration, labor union leaders, and executives of corporations engaged in manpower and training programs an opportunity to exchange information on upgrading theory and practice, thereby contributing to the…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Employment Opportunities, Federal Legislation, Job Training
American Hospital Association, Chicago, IL. – 1971
One means of dealing with manpower problems is to develop career mobility programs which give employees the opportunity to advance, in terms of responsibility and income, to jobs where there are manpower shortages. The material developed in this publication is designed to guide health care institutions, educational institutions, and other…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Ladders, Guidelines, Job Training
Soong, Robert K.; And Others – 1971
Developed through the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Project and based on an analysis of 200 YMCA jobs, this syllabus includes training designed to improve the career mobility of YMCA employees. Topics include: (1) Fundamentals of Financial Development, (2) Techniques in Board and Committee Development, (3) Building Management, (4)…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
MILLER, S.M. – 1967
EXISTING SOCIAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURES SHOULD BE REMADE SO THAT CREDENTIALISM DOES NOT ARBITARILY BAR NEGROES AND THE POOR FROM ECONOMIC WELL-BEING AND SOCIAL MOBILITY. GRADUATION FROM A SCHOOL SIMPLY IMPLIES THAT ONE HAS FIT INTO THE PROPER EDUCATIONAL STRAITS AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY SIGNAL QUALITY PERFORMANCE. CREDENTIALISM AND ITS…
Descriptors: Blacks, Business Responsibility, Credentials, Disadvantaged
Skill Upgrading in Cleveland, OH. – 1970
Skill Upgrading in Cleveland (SUIC) is one of three manpower training and upgrading organizations which was funded to replicate and further test the High Intensity Training (HIT) model for upgrading underemployed workers. This report is a summary of activities aimed at upgrading low-skill, low-wage workers within a plant setting and with small…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Inplant Programs