Designed as a basic reference source for vocational counselors and manpower planners, this handbook includes job descriptions and employment outlook information for white-collar, blue-collar, and service occupations. Updated to include 26 new occupational and industry outlook statements, information in the handbook is based on data received from…

Economic and demographic shifts in Appalachia show that overall conditions in the region are improving. This July 1972 economic report presents major changes in Southern Appalachia, Central Appalachia, Highlands Appalachia, and Northern Appalachia. The report includes (1) a summary of the previous year's economic report covering employment from…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO (1) IDENTIFY PRESENT AND EMERGING AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS OTHER THAN FARMING FOR WHICH VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IS NEEDED AND (2) DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF PERSONS PRESENTLY EMPLOYED AND NEEDED IN THE FUTURE. BUSINESSES IN THE STATE IN WHICH EMPLOYEES WOULD FIND A KNOWLEDGE OF AGRICULTURE USEFUL OR…

Physical and educational changes and changes in family and human values are briefly discussed in this speech focusing on the changing work force. Career education and career guidance are viewed as ways to help make education and learning more relevant. Makeup of the labor market is reviewed and changes projected for ten years in the future. The…

Using information from surveys conducted by the U.S. Civil Service Commissions Bureau of Intergovernmental Personnel Programs, the author discusses female employment in state and local government. The quantity and quality of female employment and conditions facilitating female employment are examined. (Author/RM)

Because of its complex, multidimensional causes, unemployment is unlikely to be reduced significantly as a result of improved employability achieved through career education. (Author)

Principal sources of data on employment and earnings or income are outlined here. Among them are Labor Department data sources, Labor Department publications, census publications from 1970 census, and the Social Security administration. (Author/AM)

A Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) economist describes two BLS program surveys measuring working hours data and economic trends: the Current Employment Statistics Survey (from payroll surveys) and the Current Population Survey (from household surveys). From different data, both series indicate very similar economic forces. (MF)

A survey of students graduating from a social policy program was taken to determine students' work affiliations after graduation, and to compare their situations before and after graduation. The findings indicated differences in work affiliations and experiences, with a large percentage entering the social policy field. (Author/BH)

The structure of nonmetro employment has become increasingly diverse and decreasingly agricultural. The precise policy implications of these shifts are not self-evident, but the increasingly nonagricultural character of the rural economy is at the heart of the population turnaround. (Author/KR)

Outlines relationships between ethnic stratification, the economic status of a country, and the typical nature of demographic change. Notes that in ethnically stratified societies some lower socioeconomic groups have a demographic opportunity to move into a middle niche. Examines Asian and colored groups in South Africa and demographic differences…

Certain recent social and economic changes are discussed that have an impact on the development of in-service training programs. Case studies from several countries are compared. (MP)

Outlines objectives and conclusions of a 1977 seminar for trade union officials and other specialists in labor relations on Europe and the trade unions in the next decade. Continuing economic problems and increasing economic interdependence between societies call for international labor cooperation in employment planning. (MF)

Utilizing data on the work experience of women, the authors examine both the empirical specification of human capital models of earnings in the presence of discontinuous work experience over the life cycle and simultaneous-equations models of wage determination and labor supply. (EM)

Analyzes the effects of changes in the composition of the work force and in government policies toward work since the 1960s. Today there are stronger concerns for the compatibility of work with life values and for individual rights in work. (Author/AV)