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Jagger, Nick; Perryman, Sarah – 1997
A study examined the feasibility of measuring employment in high-technology sectors at the regional level. First, the effect of definition of the term "high-technology" on survey results was considered along with potential effects of using 2- and 3-digit classifications of technology occupations from the Nomenclature of Economic…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Economic Research, Employment Patterns, Feasibility Studies
Glasmeier, Amy – 1988
This report questions whether high-tech development is an option for rural counties in the United States by examining the spatial location, industrial composition, growth experience, and environmental factors associated with high-tech industries in such counties. Using a highly detailed database of manufacturing plants and estimates of employment,…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Employment Patterns, Job Development, Labor Needs
Todd, Lee T., Jr. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2006
Today, many high-tech, professional jobs are being sent overseas. According to TechsUnite.org, more than 150,000 technology jobs have been lost to offshoring since 2000. In this article, the author asserts that American colleges and universities are uniquely poised to help confront this economic challenge by providing basic and applied research…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Technological Advancement, Professional Occupations, Colleges
LUSKIN, SHELDON H.; AND OTHERS – 1966
ELECTRONIC SOLID STATE SWITCHING SYSTEMS, COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES, SEMIAUTOMATIC INFORMATION SERVICES, AUTOMATIC INTERCEPTING AND DATA PROCESSING, AND DEDICATED PLANT, THE PERMANENT ASSIGNMENT OF LINES FROM A CENTRAL OFFICE TO EACH ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL SUBSCRIBER, ARE SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS WHICH WILL BRING SIGNIFICANT MANPOWER…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Forsgren, Roderick A.; Clark, David H. – 1976
Implications for Maine's vocational technical institutes of changes in the pulp and paper industry are examined in this study designed to help vocational educators realize the importance of keeping current with the needs of employers in relevant labor markets. Information used was gathered from relevant literature and from indepth interviews with…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Employment Patterns, Employment Qualifications, Instrumentation Technicians
Critchlow, Robert V.; Herman, Arthur S. – 1973
In an effort to assess the manpower implications of technological innovations in the printing and publishing industry, the study undertakes to provide answers to the following questions: How extensively are the various innovations being used and what is the trend of their use for the future? What factors, such as costs and benefits, govern the…
Descriptors: Automation, Communications, Employment Patterns, Industrial Training
Barley, Stephen R. – 1992
Over the past 4 decades, the number of professional and technical workers has increased by 282 percent, and economic forecasts indicate that this trend of rapid growth will increase. The bureaucratization of the professions, expansion and application of scientific knowledge, and technological change have all fueled a "technization" of the work…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Economic Change, Economic Research, Employment Patterns
Howard, H. Philip; Rothstein, Debra E. – 1981
In 1980 1,455,000 persons worked in computer occupations. Two in five were systems analysts or programmers; one in five was a keypunch operator; one in 20 was a computer service technician; and more than one in three were computer and peripheral equipment operators. Employment was concentrated in major urban centers in four major industry…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computers, Data Processing Occupations, Educational Needs
Nystrom, Dennis; And Others
Selected technological and research areas that may affect emerging careers and work expectations were discussed in the five seminar presentations contained in this proceedings. In the introductory section, Dennis Nystrom outlines the goals of the conference and suggests possible implications. Sar Levitan, in the keynote address, examines the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Computers, Conference Reports, Economic Factors
Hunt, H. Allan; Hunt, Timothy L. – 1983
A study examined the job creation and job displacement potential of industrial robots in the United States and specifically, in Michigan, by 1990. To complete an analysis of the impact of robotics on the American labor force, researchers combined data from previous forecasts of future unit and dollar sales projections and from interviews with…
Descriptors: Automation, Continuing Education, Economic Factors, Educational Needs
Fraser, Bryna Shore; Goldstein, Harold – 1985
A study examined the training required for a wide range of occupations in which workers use computers or computer-controlled equipment. It was determined that although computer use is widespread and growing rapidly, relatively few workers (about 5 percent) need extensive education or training in computer-related skills. Because most workers…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Computer Science Education, Data Processing Occupations, Educational Needs
Crohn, Leslie – 1983
A study examined the views of leading Northwest business executives concerning the implications of and need for technological literacy in the 1990s and beyond. The executives made it clear that the United States is moving toward a future in which high-technology industries will alter work functions dramatically. Providing students with a basic…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Emerging Occupations, Employer Attitudes
Liaroutzos, Oliver; Robichon, Marc – Training & Employment: A French Newsletter from Cereq and Its Associated Centres, 2000
The nature of basic computer occupations has changed greatly since the early 1980s. The changes reveal a shift in the respective roles of the sectors of industry associated with computer services (manufacturing and industrial computing). The service sector has adopted the procedures of industry in terms of organization, methods, and quality,…
Descriptors: Computers, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
Devinatz, Victor G. – 1999
This book, which is based on a 7-month ethnographic study of working conditions and employment practices at a biomedical electronics factory, examines the impact that high tech has had on the relationship between management and workers in the manufacturing industry. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's 10 chapters: (1) the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Biomedical Equipment, Career Education, Case Studies
Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN. Office of Manpower Studies. – 1984
To assess the need for technology programs in the Kokomo, Indiana area, such background data (population projections for the region, the educational level of adults living in the region, and the number and size of firms located in the area) concerning Kokomo and the counties surrounding it were compiled. The researchers formulated projected…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Associate Degrees, Computer Oriented Programs, Continuing Education
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