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Yelin, Edward H.; Trupin, Laura – Monthly Labor Review, 2003
An analysis of the California Work and Health Survey indicates that people with disabilities have lower employment rates and less secure kinds of employment than those without disabilities. Once on the job, the two groups do not differ fundamentally in their working conditions. (Contains 19 notes and references.) (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Patterns, Tables (Data), Work Environment
PEARCE, FRANK C. – 1966
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE'S MULTIOCCUPATIONAL TRAINING PROJECT AT NEW HOPE SCHOOL WAS EVALUATED ON THE BASIS OF SUBSEQUENT EMPLOYMENT OF TRAINEES. DATA ON THE CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATUSES OF TRAINEES AND DROPOUTS, REASONS FOR BEING OUT OF THE LABOR FORCE, ANTICIPATED EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS AND EARNING POWER OF EMPLOYED…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Vocational Education, Employment Patterns, Employment Potential
Richards, Craig – 1982
Changes in California's public school Hispanic teacher employment practices and the contribution of bilingual categorical funding and regulations to these practices in the period 1967-1980 are described and interpreted. The paper attempts to clarify these related issues of fact and interpretation by first describing the relative levels and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Hispanic Americans
Hayward, Gerald C.; Barbarita, Juana – 1981
Pursuant to the California Education Code, Sections 87100-87106, this report summarizes the progress made by the 70 California community college districts in meeting affirmative action regulations calling for the establishment of district hiring programs aimed at increasing the number of women and ethnic minorities employed at all levels of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Trupin, Laura; Yelin, Edward – 1999
This report uses data from the California Work and Health Survey (a random sample of 2,310 California adults), conducted in July 1996, to compare labor force status, employment history, and experience of work for persons with and without disabilities. Results found: (1) the largest difference in the employment experience of persons with and…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment, Employment Experience, Employment Opportunities
Baker, William P.; Jenson, Henry C. – 1973
The fourth report in a series of 5 yearly follow-up studies of a school district in San Jose, California, the report: (1) assists the district, and other districts with similar populations, in assessing organization, curriculum, and guidance services by ethnically analyzed responses and (2) compares the results of this study with the 3 previous…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation, Dropout Research
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1989
This report presents fall 1989 demographic, staffing, salary, and workload information on all California community college employees, based on data from 69 of the 71 districts in the state. First, tables present the total number of district employees by primary occupational activity; full-time equivalency; type of assignment; weekly faculty…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Compensation (Remuneration)
Johnson, Hans P.; Tafoya, Sonya M. – 1999
Data from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) were used to assess the prospects of California's welfare population versus those of the U.S. welfare population. Welfare recipients were found to have substantially lower basic skills than other adults do. Although 58% of California adults with basic skills and demographic characteristics…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis
Riccio, James; And Others – 1994
The cost-effectiveness and 3-year impacts of California's Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN) program, which is a statewide initiative aimed at increasing the employment and self-sufficiency of recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), were evaluated by studying follow-up data for 33,000 people from 6 counties who entered…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, County Programs