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Download full textSCHULTZ, THEODORE W. – 1967
WORKERS ARE PRODUCTIVE AGENTS. THEIR ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY IS ENHANCED BY INVESTMENT IN THEM. THE INVESTMENT APPROACH IS NOT ONLY A USEFUL BUT A VERY POWERFUL ORGANIZING CONCEPT FOR POLICY AND PROGRAMING. BY USING IT, ONE CAN IDENTIFY MAJOR MALINVESTMENTS THAT ARE A CONSEQUENCE OF PUBLIC POLICY SUCH AS--(1) IN AGRICULTURE, TOO MUCH HAS BEEN…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Economically Disadvantaged, Labor Force Development, Labor Utilization
Celovsky, Boris – Training In Business and Industry, 1972
Author carefully analyzes who stands to gain from employee training programs. This information will help government and private industry in the process of allocating and financing the training programs. (Editor/LF)
Descriptors: Economic Opportunities, Economic Progress, Human Resources, Industrial Training
Office of Manpower Policy, Evaluation, and Research (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1970
This report provides an overview of the changing labor force of the 1970's. Employment trends for youth, blacks, women part-time workers, and other groups are projected, after which the report discusses the role of Federal manpower policy in improving the operation of the labor market during inflation, recession, and steady growth. Numerous graphs…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Ginzberg, Eli; And Others – 1971
Realizing the relationship of productivity to technological, organizational, and manpower variables, and the need to improve and increase production gains, this document examines existing public and private entrepreneurial and industrial relations structures in an effort to ascertain manpower policy measures which if strengthened or introduced…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Progress, Labor Force Development, Labor Legislation
International Inst. for Labour Studies, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1963
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…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Progress, Educational Planning, Educational Sociology
WOLFBEIN, SEYMOUR L. – 1967
DURING THE EARLY 1960'S, THREE PRIMARY CHANGES OCCURRED IN THE UNITED STATES WHICH CALLED FOR A BASIC REORIENTATION IN ATTITUDES, POLICIES, AND PROGRAMS OF ACTION. INVOLVED WERE (1) AN ECONOMIC POLICY TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH ECONOMIC GROWTH (1964 REVENUE ACT), (2) AN ACTIVE MANPOWER POLICY TO PROVIDE A TRAINED LABOR SUPPLY (1965 MANPOWER…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Economic Progress, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Level
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1964
EXAMINERS APPOINTED BY THE ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD) REPRESENTING THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE, CANADA, AND SWEDEN, VISITED THE UNITED STATES IN JANUARY 1963 TO STUDY THE COUNTRY'S MANPOWER POLICY, AND PREPARE A LIST OF QUESTIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE UNITED STATES AUTHORITIES. THE EXAMINERS' REPORT AND A…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Educational Planning, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems
Haveman, Robert H.; Bershadker, Andrew; Schwabish, Jonathan A. – 2003
This book provides an introduction to earnings capacity (EC), a measurement of human capital, and its application to a research study of potential earned annual income over a 25-year period. Focus is on qualitative aspects of EC such as race, age, gender and education and its utilization. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 reviews existing…
Descriptors: Capital, Definitions, Demography, Economic Development
