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National Retired Teachers Association, Washington, DC. – 1981
These background papers and recommendations from a mini-conference on the consumer problems of older Americans and new directions that government and business should take to protect the consumer rights of the elderly address the following areas: credit, food, insurance, investments, prescription drugs and medical appliances, and primary health…
Descriptors: Banking, Business Responsibility, Change Strategies, Consumer Economics
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
Focusing on sales occupations, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include automobile sales workers, buyers, insurance…
Descriptors: Auto Parts Clerks, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Michigan State Civil Rights Commission, Lansing. – 1967
By projecting the immediate outlook in Michigan into the forthcoming decade, a picture emerges of the social and economic status of non-whites and whites in the years ahead. The methodology used to project industry-occupational group trends of non-whites in Michigan is predicated upon a mathematical model consisting of four basic steps outlined in…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Labor Force, Labor Force Development
Chicoine, David L.; Langston, Suzanne W. – 1985
Simulation of changes through 1988-89 in the distribution of general school aid (GSA) in Illinois demonstrated implications of a dual state economy for educational finance. Agricultural and heavy manufacturing areas were found to have suffered loss of tax revenue while service and light industry areas experienced increased revenue. Downstate…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Differences, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
BARSKY, LILLIAN; TERLIN, ROSE – 1967
DETAILED INFORMATION IS PROVIDED ON A VARIETY OF PROFESSIONS FOR WOMEN. EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, ESTIMATED SALARIES, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVANCEMENT ARE DISCUSSED IN SUCH OCCUPATIONS AS ACCOUNTANT, HOME ECONOMIST, ENGINEER, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST, NURSE, SCIENTIST, REAL ESTATE AGENT AND BROKER,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Opportunities, Career Planning, College Graduates
Pennsylvania State Employment Service, Harrisburg. Automation Manpower Services Section. – 1965
To provide information on the relationship of automation to changing occupational patterns and related worker displacements, examples of automation and technological change in industry are given. Some summary findings are: (1) Technological advancements cause some jobs to disappear and also cause some new jobs to appear, (2) Many workers dispaced…
Descriptors: Automation, Employment, Industry, Job Layoff
Young, Roger L.; Gould, John A., Jr. – 1974
The report surveys the occupational environment of the towns in the region within 30 to 45 minutes' commuting time of North Reading, Massachusetts. A random sample of manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, service, and to a much lesser extent finance, insurance, real estate establishments was surveyed in person or by mail. Information…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Employment Opportunities, Employment Qualifications, Entry Workers
McHewitt, Earl R. – 1994
To determine employment outcomes for graduates of the 1993-93 academic year, the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) undertook a study of outcomes by examining state unemployment insurance wage records. The analysis determined that for all 23 colleges in the system, 63.6% of graduates were employed by a Virginia business or industry at the…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Employment Statistics
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1997
Between 1994 and 2005, employment in the United States will rise to 144.7 million from 172 million, an increase of 14 percent, with women's labor force growth expected to be twice that of men. Growing occupations requiring a Bachelor's degree or above include the following: lawyers, physicians, systems analysts, computer engineers, management…
Descriptors: Adults, Demand Occupations, Educational Needs, Employed Women
Ford, Geraldine A.; Ford, Jerry D. – 1985
A study examined the attitudes of employers from 10 firms in northwest Arkansas toward changing from a traditional office to an electronic one. Even though the 10 employers represented 7 different categories of industry (construction, manufacturing, transportation and public utilities, wholesale and retail trade, finance and real estate, services,…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Literacy, Educational Needs, Electronic Equipment
Keely, Charles B. – 1971
The involvement of speculative activities in real estate transfers in central cities where racial composition is changing has been the center of controversy in a number of cities. This paper is a statistical description of the scope of the operations and some of the effects as measured by demographic data. The site of the study was Baltimore,…
Descriptors: Black Housing, Black Population Trends, Census Figures, Housing Industry
American Vocational Association, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1970
The publication is a bibliography prepared in an attempt to assist guidance and distributive education personnel in their task of securing relevant published career information. Depending on overall adequacy, three categories of the National Vocational Guidance Association (NVGA)--highly recommended, recommended, and useful--were used in rating…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Career Opportunities, Distributive Education, Employment Opportunities
Downtown Business Quarterly, 1998
This theme issue explores lower Manhattan's burgeoning "New Media" industry, a growing source of jobs in lower Manhattan. The first article, "New Media Manpower Issues" (Rodney Alexander), addresses manpower, training, and workforce demands faced by new media companies in New York City. The second article, "Case Study:…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
Texas A and M Univ., College Station. Texas Real Estate Research Center. – 1985
Part of a series of classroom aids designed for real estate instructors, this instructional packet was developed to help real estate students understand the more common provisions and the legal significance of an oil and gas lease, as well as some provisions landowners may wish to insert for personal benefit and protection. Following an evaluation…
Descriptors: Business Education, Contracts, Fuels, Instructional Materials
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1981
Written by California teachers and administrators involved in distributive and office education at the secondary and community college levels, these 24 articles present information on new methods of instruction and uses of technology occurring in the business world and in education. Topics covered include Centers for Business Teacher Education,…
Descriptors: Accounting, Bilingual Education, Business Education, Business Education Teachers
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