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Escobari, Marcela; Seyal, Ian; Meaney, Michael – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2019
Every person deserves the opportunity for dignified employment that provides living wages and potential for advancement. However, for many in America today, this is far from reality, as they are caught in a cycle of low-wage work, earning poverty wages, and unable to move up in the economy. Local leaders, firms, and workers need to adapt quickly…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment, Qualifications, Job Training
Sheppard, Harold L. – 1969
Intended to promote discussion about unemployment and underemployment in America, this report considers the question of who among the poor do, or do not, work, and why; the occupations, industries, regional distribution, and other characteristics of the working poor; estimates as to how many more jobs could be filled or created during 1965-75; and…
Descriptors: Business, Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Geographic Regions
Williamson, Jeffrey G. – 1975
The document is based on a premise that mid-twentieth century experience with income distribution cannot be adequately understood without a better knowledge of the long-term macroeconomic forces that have endogenously determined the wage structure. The secular performance of the price of skills and the occupational wage structure are important to…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Employment Patterns, History, Income
BRAZZIEL, WILLIAM F. – 1966
A STUDY WAS MADE TO IDENTIFY, IN THE POSTTRAINING PERFORMANCE OF TWO GROUPS OF GRADUATES OF A TRAINING PROGRAM, DIFFERENCES THAT MIGHT BE ATTRIBUTABLE TO BASIC EDUCATION EXPERIENCES. NINETY MEN--45 IN EACH GROUP (COMBINED GENERAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, GROUP A, AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION ALONE, GROUP B)--COMPLETED MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Course Content, Employment Level
Adams, John F.; And Others – 1977
Focusing on the factors inhibiting the labor market's adjustment to economic change, the study examined the economic and social problems facing southern rural areas and populations, including Chicanos and migrants. Factors were in the areas of the labor market behavior, income and earnings, poverty, welfare system and welfare reform, manpower…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Black Employment, Economic Development, Economic Research