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Iowa State Employment Security Commission, Des Moines. – 1969
The primary objective of this project was to focus on rural labor surplus areas in southeastern Iowa, relocating unemployed residents in industrial jobs on Iowa's Mississippi border, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City. The group was predominantly white and poorly educated. Small rural employment offices communicated job openings and worker qualifications…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Job Placement, Labor Utilization, Occupational Mobility
Download full textFairchild, Charles K. – 1970
This report reviews the knowledge gained in 4 years of operation of labor mobility demonstration projects and provides guidelines on the design and operation of a permanent worker relocation program. Data were gathered both from written material covering the experience of each project and from field trips to some of the projects when additional…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Development
North Carolina Manpower Development Corp., Chapel Hill. – 1969
The purpose of the project was to determine the feasibility of matching severely rural disadvantaged persons in the mountains and coastal plains with full-time employment in the Piedmont area by means of relocation assistance. Farm families with incomes of $1200 or less, workers discharged for no fault of their own, and workers unemployed for six…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Economically Disadvantaged, Job Placement, Labor Force Development
Parai, Louis – 1969
The impact of immigration and emigration on Canada's stock of professional and skilled manpower was analyzed for the period 1946-1963. Although the number of immigrants is recorded by Canadian authorities there is no complete record of emigration from Canada; however, a reasonably reliable picture was obtained from emigration data of other…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Foreign Countries, Labor Utilization, Migration Patterns
Reesman, Cilla J.; And Others – 1975
This report deals with the operations reports of 29 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) Experimental and Demonstration (E and D) projects concerning the geographic relocation of workers under the MDTA's provisions and analyzes both the demonstration findings dealing with program feasibility, and the available empirical research concerning…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development, Economic Research
The Impact of Technological Change; The American Experience. Studies in Employment and Unemployment.
Haber, William; And Others – 1963
Technological change is a complex term involving many more factors than "changes in machinery or automation." Six changes which affect jobs and influence skills in our industrial systems that could logically be called technological change have been identified: (1) scientific management, or time and motion studies, (2) mergers and consolidations,…
Descriptors: Administration, Automation, Individual Characteristics, Job Layoff
Ruesink, David C.; And Others – 1968
Two papers are presented which were given before the Social Science Section of the 1968 Annual Conference of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. The first paper reports on the results of a research effort designed to identify factors associated with successful relocation of people from a rural or small community environment into large,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Agricultural Laborers, Community Characteristics, Community Leaders
McElroy, Kathleen Mary – 1974
The labor mobility demonstration project attempted to increase the geographic mobility of a population characterized by low previous mobility and low mobility potential--black and white workers, either unemployed or newly trained (Manpower Development Training Act) from central Alabama. The complexity of the recruitment and selection task, and…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Demonstration Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Employment Opportunities
Somers, Gerald G. – 1972
Workers who were relocated under federally sponsored pilot mobility projects in Michigan and Wisconsin were compared with a group of nonmovers drawn from the same rural areas and with similar demographic and labor market characteristics. It was found that the movers improved their employment status, their occupational status, and their income…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Development, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Programs
Tuskegee Inst., AL. – 1968
The labor mobility program is designed to provide such counseling, technical, and financial assistance as will be needed to place retrained persons on jobs that make decent wages in other communities, in contrast to those programs which retrain persons for local employment. The general objectives include: developing jobs for persons having…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Demonstration Programs, Financial Support
Speight, John F.; And Others – 1973
The document provides an analysis of relocation stability of individuals relocated during the March, 1970-November, 1971 contract period. Data bases were 1,244 applicants with screening information and 401 individuals with follow-up interview information. Approximately one half were in new areas six months after being relocated. Reasons for…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Demonstration Programs, Economic Factors, Employee Attitudes
Kaufman, Jacob J.; Sumansky, John M. – 1974
The report details the implications of mobility for manpower planning, traces the impact of mobility on planning for the training and development of skilled manpower, and summarizes the factors influencing labor mobility drawn from a review of the relevant literature. The first section introduces the problem, summarizes factors affecting labor…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Area Studies, Black Employment, Demography
Speight, John F.; And Others – 1973
The report uses the experiences of the Mississippi Labor Mobility Project, STAR, Inc. (MLMP, STAR, Inc.), and the reports from other experimental labor mobility projects to respond to the problems of clarifying relocation assistance delivery techniques and services as they relate to the goals and objectives of manpower services. The population…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Employment Opportunities
