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Direct linkCummins, Phyllis A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Despite the desire of many older adults to remain in the workforce, those without jobs face unprecedented durations of unemployment. Many of the unemployed lack current skills for jobs in demand and need to either upgrade their skills or be trained for a new occupation to become reemployed. An aging workforce, combined with the negative effects of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Role, Older Workers, Career Development
Murray, Corey; Keen, Larry – Community College Journal, 2008
When Martin Lancaster took over as president of the North Carolina Community College System more than a decade ago, the state, not unlike much of the nation, stood at the precipice of a massive economic shift. As traditional manufacturing and farming jobs--from tobacco to furniture to textiles--began to disappear, demand for a new breed of worker…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Economic Factors, Economic Change
Hall, Donna Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Beginning in the 1970s, low-wage manufacturing areas in advanced industrialized countries experienced deindustrialization and worker dislocation as transnational corporations left for sites of lower-cost labor. In response, communities sought to rebuild their economies and pursue new employment opportunities in the restructured labor markets of…
Descriptors: Structural Unemployment, Economic Progress, Human Capital, Dislocated Workers
Download full textHolzer, Harry J. – 1989
This monograph studies unemployment in relation to labor market vacancies throughout the United States, using a new set of data: the Survey of Firms from the Employment Opportunity Pilot Project, a labor market experiment conducted by the Department of Labor at 28 sites in 1979 and 1980. The monograph is organized in five chapters. The first…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Dislocated Workers, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Powers, Laura; Markusen, Ann – 1999
A study examined the experiences of some 1.4 million American defense industry workers, displaced in the wake of the Cold War, as a way of reviewing and evaluating national policies toward worker adjustment and re-employment as they have evolved in the 1990s. The study found that the federal government, through the Department of Labor,…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Economic Impact, Employment Patterns
Blalock, Ann Bonar, Ed. – Evaluation Forum, 1995
In this issue various concepts of economic change are examined. Part I looks at economic change as a context for focusing on workforce issues. Parts II and III discuss what is being done to address this contemporary problem. This issue contains the following papers: "Presidential Perspectives on Economic Change and Restructuring: An…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Competition, Cooperative Planning
