A college degree is no longer the one-way ticket to success and fortune that it was considered in the past. This document deals with three specific aspects of adjustment of manpower production to demands for manpower: (1) What responses are being made by the academic community and by state governments to problems of changing demand for…

Two surveys of 1972 graduates of the University of Texas at Arlington, representing a college labor market, indicate a high degree of inefficiency in manpower utilization caused by lack of information, poor dissemination of information at decision-making times, and sex discrimination. (JH)

One of a series of proceedings of seminars on Manpower Policy and Program, this report presents a condensed transcript of a seminar. Dr. Wilbur J. Cohen discussed women in the labor force today, future trends in women's employment, future demands for workers, health personnel shortages, educational opportunities, homemaker services needed, and…

This Department of Labor report presents tables that describe manpower needs for college graduates. Some of the areas covered are: age distribution of the labor force; employment by occupation; employment for black men; and projected job openings for college graduates and projected entrants. (CS)

This document contains the proceedings of a conference on the general topic of labor market information, particulary the need to develop better methods, services, and subsystems for delivering such information. The source of the current concern for an adequate system of labor market information was the increased national interest in the optimum…

Research findings indicate the paraprofessional movement has not produced either the anticipated leap in service productivity or satisfactory career development alternatives. The author gives his recommendations for changing this situation. (Author/HMV)

This monograph is addressed principally to the policy maker and program planner dealing with job development, and defines some of the limits, problems, and needs of the field. Primarily, job development is concerned with the demand side of the labor market equation, dealing with the availability of job openings in general or for a particular…

This book deals not with the administrative or information searching processes related to the guidance function of providing occupational information, but with the substantive information itself. It presents a contemporary view of values, trends, and principles, derived primarily from statistical information describing the current world of work.…

This preliminary model deals with manpower requirements to 1980 and jobs for University of Georgia graduates. Emphasis is placed on suggested methodology for dealing with a projected output of graduates in terms of speciality fields and the correlation of this projected output with projected manpower requirements in the related speciality fields.…

This document examines trends in employment, earnings, and education requirements among major sectors, industries, and four detailed industry groups (high tech, business services, health services, and eating and drinking establishments) in the United States. Trends show that the service sector, particularly in business and health services, are…

THE LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION STIPULATED THAT IT MAINTAIN A REGISTER OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL AND IN OTHER WAYS PROVIDE A CENTRAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR INFORMATION COVERING ALL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PERSONNEL IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS PUBLICATION BRINGS TOGETHER INFORMATION FROM MANY SOURCES ON THE…

In spite of increasingly effective anti-discrimination laws and a reduction in the educational differential between blacks and whites, the rapid economic progress made by Negroes in the 1940's and early 1950's has not continued. This study finds evidence that labor market adjustments and population changes are major factors. The labor market…