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Blau, David M.; Goodstein, Ryan M. – Journal of Human Resources, 2010
After a long decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We examine how changes in Social Security rules affected these trends. We attribute only a small portion of the decline from the 1960s-80s to the increasing generosity of Social…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Retirement, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
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Moen, Phyllis – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1991
Examined work and family ties over 10-year period (1970-79) for women aged 35 to 59 using life-course perspective and data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Marital status (and marital transitions) and presence of children were related to labor force patterns over 10-year period, but with different effects for women aged 35-44 than for those…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Employed Women
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1998
Although the gap between women's and men's wages differs slightly depending on how the gap is measured, no matter how they are measured, women's earnings are below those received by men in 97% of the occupations for which data are available. Since 1979, women's earnings have been climbing when compared with men's earnings, gaining steeply during…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women
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Rodriquez, Havidan – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1992
Focuses on the impact of household composition, educational attainment, and employment characteristics on household income for Puerto Rican householders in New York and other areas of the United States, from 1970 to 1980. Suggests that deteriorating economic conditions of Puerto Ricans are a result of joblessness and low-skilled, low-wage jobs…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Differences, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
Citro, Constance F.; Gaquin, Deirdre A. – 1987
This monograph examines the size and composition of the population of U.S. artists from 1950 to 1985 using data from four U.S. decennnial censuses (1950-1980) and the Current Population Survey (CPS). Chapter 1 presents an overview and summary of the report. Population growth rates for the United States and persons in specific arts-related…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Artists, Comparative Analysis, Demography
Maglen, Leo; Hopkins, Sonnie – 2000
Australian employment patterns for 1986-2000 are depicted in this report using a framework of nine occupational categories classified in terms of level/nature of skills and degree/nature of exposure to globalization. The categories are as follows: symbolic analytical services (conceptual, technical), in-person services (professional, intermediate,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Economic Change, Employment Patterns
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Callaway, Rick; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1996
A study of employment patterns and starting salary gaps among male and female business graduates during the 1980s found that while both employment conditions and earnings improved for women, the gender gap in starting salaries increased during the decade. Of college-acquired student characteristics, only academic achievement persisted as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis
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Carpenter, Seth B.; Rodgers, William M., III – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
Employing two widely used approaches to identify the effects of monetary policy, this paper explores the differential impact of policy on the labor market outcomes of teenagers, minorities, out-of-school youth, and less-skilled individuals. Evidence from recursive vector autoregressions and autoregressive distributed lag models that use…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Labor Force, Economics Education, Economic Impact
Maglen, Leo – 2001
Three broad categories were identified among 340 occupations at the four-digit level of the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations: positively/opportunistically engaged in the global economy (conceptual/creative, conceptual/technical); vulnerable (manufacturing, white-collar clerical, blue-collar operative, manual low skill); and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Competition, Economic Change, Economic Impact
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC. – 1997
In February 1995, a supplement to the Current Population Survey examined the job search rate among a sample of 108,876 employed persons (except unpaid family workers) who had worked for their employer for at least 3 months were asked if they had looked for others employment since December 1994. Of those surveyed, 6,044 (5.6%) had actively searched…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Career Education, Education Work Relationship
Burniaux, Jean-Marc; Padrini, Flavio; Brandt, Nicola – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
There have been concerns that employment-enhancing reforms along the lines of the 1994 OECD Jobs Strategy could inadvertently lead to increased income inequality and poverty. This paper focuses on the impact of institutions and redistributive policies on inequality and poverty with the view of assessing whether a trade-off between better labour…
Descriptors: Wages, Poverty, Employment Patterns, Labor Market
Shaw, Lois; Gish, Melinda; Braunstein, Jill; Allore, Sara – 1997
After remaining virtually unchanged from 1995 through the 1970s, the wage gap between women and men began to decline in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, the ratio of the annual earnings of women employed full time year-round to the annual earnings of their male counterparts reached 72.0%. That ratio decreased slightly (to 71.4%) in 1995. The wage…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Blacks, Career Development
Cornwell, Gretchen T.; Thorsen, Jenny S. – 1985
Data from the 1980, 1970, and 1960 censuses were used to describe Pennsylvania's rural women and to compare them with urban women and, in some instances, men. In Pennsylvania in 1980, just 1 rural woman in 25 lived on a farm. These women were more educated, more active in the labor force, and somewhat better paid than their counterparts in 1960…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Rate, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2002
In May 2001, 7.8 million people in the United States (5.7% of U.S. workers) worked multiple jobs. The May 2001 Current Population Survey asked multiple jobholders their main reason for holding more than one job. These percentages of respondents gave the following reasons: to meet expenses or pay off debt, 27.8%; to earn extra money, 35.4%; to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Blacks, Debt (Financial)
Maglen, Leo; Shah, Chandra – 1999
The effects of globalization and rapid technological change on emerging occupational patterns in Australia need to be understood in order to understand their implications for the effects on education and vocational training. Building on the classification scheme introduced by Robert Reich in his 1992 book, the Work of Nations, Australian…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Articulation (Education), Cooperative Planning, Economic Climate
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