Using data from personal interviews, participant observation in a rural poverty area, and intensive case studies, this study compared 1,325 women according to welfare, marital, and employment status. This appendix contains the tables of data used in the study. The other volumes are available as VT 014 885 and VT 014 887. (BH)

The essential nature of the relationship between patterns of education and development implies a causal connection between education and unemployment. Potentials for improvement of employment opportunities and participation in economic growth, together with potentials for improvement of the relevance of education and training to development, are…

Identifies a number of techniques that can help keep down the cost of operating plant management programs. Discussed are administrative economies, purchasing economies, manpower savings, maintenance saving, and cost-benefit analysis. (Author/DN)

The need in today's library for a middle career category between the professional and the clerical is stressed. The functions which could be performed by the library technical assistant are elaborated and programs for education and training are presented. (JN)

Productivity increased in 1981 in the United States, Japan, and European countries studied. Gains ranged from 2 to 4 percent in the US, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, to 6 percent in England and Denmark, and more than 7 percent in Belgium. In Canada and Sweden, productivity remained essentially unchanged. (SSH)

This article examines some of the indicators that have been used to assess job commitment: statistical series on absence from work; quits; working part time by choice (phenomena generally associated with weak commitment); and multiple job-holding and overtime (often associated with strong commitment). (SSH)

It is suggested that faculty, particularly in the liberal arts, use slack in their schedules to creatively develop new applications for college resources, design adaptations of existing programs and courses for new markets, and initiate change benefiting the college. (MSE)

Describes outcomes of clinical/services education programs for psychologists supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. Presents data on graduates' employment setting and status, geographic location, clinical research contributions, and recruitment of minority students. Discusses findings in the context of changes in psychology graduate…

Work in America Institute, a nonprofit organization, contends that many changes are necessary to extend the working life of older workers. Forty-five recommendations are made for employers and government to ready the American workplace for an aging workforce. (Author/MLF)

A series of charts and maps presents an overview of third-level education worldwide including global distribution of foreign students, several demographic variables, enrollment and growth in enrollment between 1965-75, foreign student exports, and labor force projections. (JMF)

Except for the increasing labor force shares of youth in the early 1970s, the impact of the changing age and sex composition of the labor force did not make a significant contribution to rising unemployment rates between 1969 and 1982. When compared to the recoveries over that period, however, the current recovery is marked by a significant impact…

Econometric forecasting models were used to forecast employment levels in the hotel and catering industry in Great Britain through 1993 under several different forecasting scenarios. The growth in employment in the hotel and catering industry over the next 5 years is likely to be broadly based, both across income levels of domestic consumers,…

This publication reports findings from the 1981 and 1982 Current Population Survey studies conducted by the United States Bureau of the Census regarding characteristics of the 6,319,000 noninstitutionalized handicapped women in America between 16 and 64 years of age. Tables, figures, and text provide information on age distribution, educational…

This publication reports findings from the 1981 and 1982 Current Population Survey studies conducted by the United States Bureau of the Census regarding characteristics of the 2,280,000 noninstitutionalized disabled blacks between 16 and 64 years of age. Tables, figures, and text provide information on age distribution, educational attainment,…

The investigation explores the impact that changing economies have had and will continue to have upon Human Resources Development (HRD)--the collective body responsible for training and retraining labor--and from that perspective offers recommendations to improve the impact HRD has upon society. The challenge for HRD is to recognize the economic,…