The article compares unemployment, employment, and other labor market indicators in the United States with the available indicators of the eight nations of Canada, Australia, Japan, France, West Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, and Italy. (Author)

Four potential biases incurred by using a sample of wives of male respondents as a sample of women for sex comparisons of the occupational attainment process were examined and empirically assessed. Using data from the Wisconsin longitudinal study of high school seniors, the extent and nature of two potential biases were considered: (1) a sampling…

THE GRADUAL MOVEMENT OF NONWHITE WORKERS, 90 PERCENT OF WHOM ARE NEGROES, INTO HIGHER SKILLED AND BETTER PAYING JOBS HAS CONTINUED SINCE THE MID-1950'S. DESPITE THESE GAINS, LARGE GAPS EXIST BETWEEN WHITE AND NONWHITE WORKERS AS MEASURED BY SUCH INDICATORS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING AS OCCUPATIONAL SHIFTS, MANPOWER UTILIZATION, INCOME, AND…

In order to analyze the timing of labor force entry and withdrawal during the business cycle, this dissertation divides cycles into stages and studies the change in participation between stages. Refuting the common assumption that labor force sensitivity is unaffected by the level of economic activity, the study shows that the timing of movements…

A vocational curriculum development model for agricultural education is proposed by the author, showing instructional areas for occupations in agriculture on four levels of vocational development: operational, skilled, technical, and professional. (MF)

Thirty-three kindergartners from two social classes were tested on an array of prereading and oral language skills. Prereading skills were found to be highly intercorrelated and to relate to ability to provide decontextualized definitions for words. Oral language measures of decontextualized skill correlated within task, but not across tasks. (PCB)

A content analysis of general interest magazine advertisements in 1983 was compared to advertisements during 1958 and 1970. Some sexist stereotypes have decreased in these periodicals. The advertisements from 1983 more accurately reflect the true diversity of women's social and occupational roles than do those of earlier time periods. (VM)

Examined relational consequences of supervisors' and supervisees' disagreements about supervisee's counseling sophistication, using Stoltenberg's developmental model of counselor supervision. Supervisors perceived themselves as varying their behavior with supervisees of different developmental levels, though supervisees did not see this.…

Results of this study were that (1) the majority of 1983 vocational agriculture graduates in Florida were involved in agriculture-related occupations; (2) graduates had not accurately predicted their post-high school plans; and (3) overall, program completers had very positive attitudes about vocational agriculture. (SK)

Compares women defining themselves as retired with those defining themselves as housewives despite having worked outside the home. Examined variables are (1) work continuity, (2) occupation type, (3) work satisfaction, (4) number of years worked, (5) quitting age, and (6) full- versus part-time employment. (Author/CH)

Hypotheses regarding the social contexts of reading activities were tested in two studies. Significant three-way interactions were found between (1) education, setting, and the contents (subject matters) of reading; and (2) occupation, setting, and reading contents. Because social contexts influence reading practices they should be considered in…

Presents data from the 1979 American Home Economics Association survey on 11,229 home economists employed full time (68 percent of all respondents). Illustrates how education, sex, minority status, academic major, and type of employer affect home economists' incomes. (SK)

Analyzes specific time preferences of temporary employees (by days of the week, time of day, and time of year) and the importance of flexibility in hours of work. Examines the relationship between employee skill level to the issues of time preference and flexibility. (SK)