The document presents the corporate and managerial policy results of quantitative models of an individual's propensity to terminate from manpower programs. The models were tested using a sample from 10 firms participating in the National Alliance of Businessmen (NABS) and the Job Opportunities in the Business Sector (JOBS) programs formed to…

Continuing programs in the field of manpower research were originated at seven educational institutions to utilize the resources of universities to investigate problems of unemployment, under-utilization of workers, labor force requirements and resources, and vocational training. At Oklahoma State University, studies underway include an…

A study of a small town in the Mississippi Delta, Madison, Arkansas, questions the myth that poverty means resignation. The study concluded that the major deterrents to getting and holding jobs were lack of transportation and unsatisfactory work environments. (Author/JB)

Training of professionals and technicians should be means to an end, not an end in itself. (Editor)

The conventional approach to analysis of employment problems in the modern sector, namely comparison of workforce supply and demand, is inapplicable in the traditional sector, where a distinction needs to be made between the concepts of workforce underutilization and its availability. The author discusses these concepts and presents their policy…

A series of 185 interviews in the San Francisco Bay area, conducted by 15 young black men with college backgrounds, dealt with the employment-related experiences, problems, and attitudes of a random sample of black males who were participants in one of 11 federal and private manpower programs, or were labor force nonparticipants. Comparisons were…

TWO CHIEF AIMS OF THIS CHAPTER ARE TO TAKE A BROAD NEW LOOK AT THE MAJOR PROBLEM AREAS OF CONCERN TO MANPOWER POLICY AND TO POINT THE WAY TOWARD MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND SENSITIVE MEASURES OF PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN THESE AREAS. IN ADDITION TO THE REDUCTION OF JOBLESSNESS AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT, SOME OF THE IMPROTANT AREAS OF MANPOWER CONCERN WHICH…

The part-time job market now employs about 12.5 million persons who are voluntary part timers--those who customarily work one to thirty-four hours a week on their own volition. Data from the Current Population Survey (March-May, 1973) was used to examine the cross-sectional distribution of the employment and wages of part timers, and an analysis…

TWENTY-NINE REPRESENTATIVES OF MANAGEMENT, TRADE UNIONS, AND GOVERNMENTS FROM 28 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATED IN A STUDY COURSE DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD ALREADY ACQUIRED SOME EXPERIENCE WITH LABOR PROBLEMS AND HELD, OR WERE LIKELY TO HOLD, POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY IN THE FIELD OF LABOR. ADDRESSED TO QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE LABOR FORCE AND ITS…

This report describes changes in the rate of economic recovery in 1972 and analyzes rates of unemployment that occurred following Phase II of President Nixon's New Economic Policy. Chapter 1, "The Employment and Unemployment Record," discusses the major gains in employment achieved in 1972, while Chapter 2, "Manpower Programs: A New…

A study examined the impact of new technology upon women's employment in West Yorkshire in Great Britain. During the study, 2,000 copies of a questionnaire were distributed to past and present users of the Leeds Trade Union and Community Resource and Information Centre (TUCRIC) as well as to participants at a conference entitled Women and New…

The increase in investment in education in the Sudan has increased the number of graduates by about 12 percent each year in 1970-1975. The increase in output has not been matched by an equal increase in the absorption capacity of the labor market. Postsecondary education has been extremely costly, and the nation can hardly support the problem of…

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…

Representatives of employers' and workers' organizations from 16 member countries met to analyze the problems of facilitating adjustment to geographical and occupational changes, to discuss their experience, and to study the type of overall program needed in this field. The report contains (1) an introduction to the Seminar by Solomon Barkin, (2)…

THE YEAR'S PROGRESS, PROBLEMS OF UNEMPLOYMENT, AND STEPS FOR OVERCOMING THESE PROBLEMS ARE COVERED IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL REPORT. MAJOR DIVISIONS ARE REVIEW OF MANPOWER DEVELOPMENTS IN 1966, UNUSED MANPOWER, AND OCCUPATIONAL SHORTAGES AND TRAINING NEEDS. DURING 1966 THE NATION'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPPED BELOW 4 PERCENT, A 13-YEAR LOW. THE TOTAL…