Data from the international Work Socialization of Youth project (1988-90) were analyzed for office technology workers and machine operators in six European countries. Organizational and societal factors had greater influence on part-time/temporary employment than did job search strategies, gender, or age. (SK)

The study examined the application of 1:3 in employments of academic and non-academic staff in Nigerian Universities, as recommended by the National Universities Commission (N.U.C.), following the general feeling that Nigerian Universities were highly bureaucratised; non-teaching staff was over employed while some universities lacked…

In an attempt to raise China's international competitiveness, the government instituted a series of sweeping reforms to expand rapidly the number of higher education places. Rapid growth, however, gave rise to a new set of problems, namely, a scarcity of resources, poor educational quality and underemployment of Chinese university graduates. In…

Youth with learning disabilities have high rates of unemployment and underemployment. A specific aspect of the poor social skills of adolescents with learning disabilities is their inability to solve unstructured problems on the job. The PROBE module was designed to help youth with learning disabilities to overcome this problem. PROBE is one of…

In a society that has traditionally emphasized the economic value of a college education, large numbers of college graduates in California are reporting great difficulty in finding employment, particularly during the past few years. The principal purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between projected college educated manpower…

The alliance of private industry and the schools has produced many excellent job-oriented education programs for the potential school dropout, the hard-core unemployed, and the underemployed. However, the majority of educators and businessmen throughout the country probably are not aware of the variety of cooperative training ventures that have…

The Training Incentive Payments Program (TIPP) is an experimental and demonstration project designed to explore the feasibility of using financial incentives to stimulate more effective upgrading of the skills and earnings of low income workers in the private sector. Self administration is stressed, with incentive payments to employers based on…

This article reviews certain behaviors of graduate departments in regard to possible sex discrimination. It also evaluates job market conditions for men and women with data from a national sample of doctorate holders and from a recent survey of mobile or nontraditionally employed PhD's in psychology. (Author)

Notes that the Civil Service Commission (CSC) has not utilized its resources to enforce the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, nor has the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) been capable of ferreting out racial discrimination in the private and public sectors. (Author/AM)

A followup survey of the employment patterns of British university graduates of 1984 who had not found suitable employment within six months of graduation is reported. Results show that most had succeeded in finding employment or proceeded to additional training within 12 months of graduation, even during a period of high unemployment. (MSE)

This historical look at black women mission workers focuses on some organizers and supporters of the missions and on some missionaries. Females were allowed to do these jobs but the ministry remained off limits to them. The leadership capabilities shown by these women support efforts to purge sexism from the contemporary church. (Author/VM)

Poverty is caused by barriers and traps in the economy. Participation in the labor force does not necessarily signal an end to poverty. Increasing one's educational level can help, but other factors such as age, marital status, disabilities, number of children, and geographic location can be stronger influences. (VM)

A forced change in employment status means the impact on the worker and immediate family can be devastating. Assisting workers during this transition period is an important adult career counseling task. They must see the journey back to satisfying work as a series of planned adjustments. (CH)

Outlines the magnitude of unemployment and underemployment in Jamaica, offers some explanations of the unemployment problem, and some policy proposals on how it might be combated. (CT)