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Garcia, Steve B. – 1981
The implications of an ethnicity variable, language usage patterns, on the status attainment of 1,777 Mexican American males, ages 18 to 64 years, in the civilian labor force were studied. Language was viewed as a background variable that influences the relative positioning of Chicanos in the stratification system. It was hypothesized that, in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Economic Opportunities, Education Work Relationship
Download full textLaitman-Ashley, Nancy M., Comp. – 1979
Focusing on five possible transition points in a woman's career, these five symposium papers explore some major problems that women encounter in career and job transitions and present existing and potential solutions and the extent to which women develop skills and abilities in one setting that are transferable to another situation. Priscilla…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Development, Careers
EDWARDS, G. FRANKLIN – 1966
IN CONTRAST WITH THE BASIC SOCIALIZATION PROCESS AND ACCULTURATION OF THE IMMIGRANT, THE NEGRO STILL IS MORALLY AND SOCIALLY ISOLATED FROM SOCIETY. ALTHOUGH CHANGES TOWARD MORE EQUALITY FOR THE NEGRO WILL OCCUR, THEY WILL BE DIFFICULT TO BRING ABOUT. THE GHETTO, WHICH ISOLATES THE NEGRO, PERSISTS BECAUSE OF THE VAST PROFITS THAT WHITE REALTORS…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community, Court Litigation, Education
Greenfeld, Sue – 1979
Advanced graduate students enrolled in a management course conducted thirty-four structured interviews at a major multi-million-dollar Houston-based oil company. Approximately fifty open-ended questions were asked the respondents over topics related to sex roles in the organization, including employee interactions, secretarial roles, work-related…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Business, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
Oaxaca, Ronald L. – 1978
Although government social and economic policy, where women and minorities are concerned, is largely focused on income and earnings, specific types of data on the occupational affiliation of women would be useful for research. It is necessary to have a theoretical frame of reference in order to ask the right questions about women's occupational…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Economic Research, Employed Women, Employment Level
California State Dept. of Industrial Relations, San Francisco. Fair Employment Practices Commission. – 1965
Analysis of 1960 census statistics reveals that American Indians in California had the highest growth rate of any ethnic group in the state from 1950 to 19 0. This is attributed to improved health practices plus an in-migration of Indians from other states. Educational attainment of the American Indian in California is low compared with other…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Comparative Analysis, Employment Level
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1974
Two elements were identified as being of paramount importance in the examination of manpower policy in Denmark: (1) the division of responsibilities for matters of direct concern to the labor market between different branches of government and the social partners--an important facet of the social framework of a country, and (2) the impact of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Employment
Gurin, Gerald – 1970
Covering 5,891 trainees in a nationwide sample of 324 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) classes, this longitudinal study concentrated on how trainee attitudes and motives relate to program completion versus dropping out, and to subsequent job histories. Wage rate, extent or duration of employment, completion, dropout status (for…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bibliographies, Employment Level, Family Status
Pace, Lois W. – 1970
This study investigated the place of personal and background factors in attitudes of married women toward married women's employment. The interview schedule, including an attitude inventory devised by the researcher, was administered to a sample of 236 women in northeastern Missouri. Significant relationships were found between attitudes and these…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Attitudes, Educational Background
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1968
The President sends to the Congress each year a report on the Nation's manpower, as required by the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962, which includes a comprehensive report by the Department of Labor on manpower requirements, resources, utilization, and training. This statistical appendix to the Department of Labor report presents data…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Potter, Harry R.; And Others – 1969
The purpose of this paper is to examine the definitions, perceptions, and extent of poverty in what has been called an "average income" county in the midwestern section of the United States. The uniqueness of the study lies in the utilization of respondents' perceptions of poverty to establish a definition of poverty. The data is based…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Census Figures, Economic Status, Educational Background
Miller, Joe A.; Ferman, Louis A. – 1972
A sample of 1010 low-wage workers in Detroit (stratified by sex and welfare status) were interviewed in 1969. Data were collected on background characteristics, labor market experiences, and work career histories. The data relate to sexism as an important determinant of income in low-wage groups (women earn less and have lower status jobs),…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Potential
Harris, Everett Wayne – 1973
The primary objective of this study was to determine whether or not there were differences in selected aspects of work commitment among rural low income adults who were employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force. Specific objectives of this doctoral thesis were: (1) to determine the social and economic characteristics of rural low income…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Experience, Employment Level
Leone, Richard D. – 1970
Unlike many other industries where factory walls can hide the number of Negroes employed, the trucking industry's racial composition is largely open to public view. This study concerns the racial employment practices of interstate common and contract carriers, the for-hire segment of the motor trucking industry, in the driver and other job…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Civil Rights Legislation, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
Kalmyk, Valentina Abramovna – 1976
The socioeconomic consequences of urbanization in rural areas were investigated. Data were taken from 2 sampling sociological-statistical surveys of 157 rural communities of the Novosibirsk province in West Siberia (USSR). A two-dimensional typology of centrality and social-branch structure of production was used. By using the centrality factor…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Surveys, Developed Nations, Employment Level
