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CETA: Is It Equitable for Women?

Assesses the quantity and quality of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) services. Analyses of the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey for fiscal years 1976-78 show that women are underrepresented relative to their eligibility in CE...

Jan 1, 1981
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Demand and Supply Integration for Air Force Enlisted Work Force Planning: A Briefing

Documents the final briefing on RAND research on improved methods for integrating demand and supply factors in planning future work forces for Air Force enlisted personnel.

Jan 1, 1981
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U.S. Women at Work

Examines the reasons for this dramatic rise in the participation of women in the labor force and the consequences for women themselves, their families, and U.S. society in general.

Jan 1, 1981
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The effects of federal education programs on school principals

This is a study of the effects of federal education programs on the job of school principals. It asks: (1) how have school principals' jobs changed in the past five years, (2) how much of the change is due to federal programs, and (3) to what degre...

Jan 1, 1980
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Vocational Education and the Work Establishment of Youth: Equity and Effectiveness Issues

Assesses the equity and work establishment effects of secondary vocational education for youth in general and selected subgroups.

Jan 1, 1980
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Estimating the errors in hours of work and wage rates

Labor supply equations are often estimated by regressing hours worked on a wage measure which is itself the quotient of income and hours, leading to downward biases. The author shows that where both income and hours of work are measured with error, ...

Jan 1, 1979
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Sex desegregation of jobs: evaluation issues

Policies that desegregate jobs by sex affect two social issues: the absolute and relative increase in female poverty, and the equality of pay and occupation between men and women. The authors have limited experience in evaluating such policies, but ...

Jan 1, 1978
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Job search, spatial separation of jobs and residences, and discrimination in suburban labor markets

Examines the job search behavior of a sample of low income central city residents from the Baltimore, Maryland SMSA. The specific model which is used in this study draws on work of Lippman and McCall and incorporates concepts of spatial separation o...

Jan 1, 1978
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Minimum wages: issues and evidence

Minimum wage laws reduce employment, particularly among those whose wages are lowest. The law tells workers that unless they can find jobs at or above the specified minimum, they cannot work. Teenagers are not the only ones affected. The low-wage, lo...

Jan 1, 1978
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Reasonable expectations: limits on the promise of community councils

Assesses whether and how the Wirtz concept of community-education-work councils might affect youth, particularly their unemployment rates. Since it is assumed that these councils will deliver programs of a career education nature, the paper assesses ...

Jan 1, 1977
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Urban underemployment and the spatial separation of jobs and residences

Poor physical accessibility has been offered to explain why low income central city workers are systematically retained in the lowest paying occupations. However, it is possible that factors other than physical accessibility contribute to retaining w...

Jan 1, 1977
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Analysis of the Content of Advanced Avionics Maintenance Jobs

An analysis of the skills and knowledge required to maintain advanced avionics systems on the flight line to provide a basis for evaluating existing training methods and career structure.

Jan 1, 1976
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Women, Work, and the Law — A Legislative Review

An introduction to the legislation affecting the status of women, with primary focus on what is illegal and legal treatment of employed women.

Jan 1, 1974
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The Estimation of Training Premiums for U.S. Military Personnel.

A methodology for determining the effect of one term of military service on men's civilian earnings and occupations. Determining civilian benefits from military training would enable the Department of Defense to structure enlistment and reenlistment...

Jan 1, 1974
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Uses of the Social Security Work History Sample in Studying Metropolitan Migration.

Describes two examples of how our understanding of the migration process has been broadened by the Social Security Work History Sample. In the first, the sample is used as a longitudinal register from which individual migration histories can be deve...

Jan 1, 1972
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Part-Time Experience and the Transition from School to Work.

Part-Time Experience and the Transition from School to Work.

Jan 1, 1970
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The Impact of Income Maintenance Programs on Hours of Work and Incomes of the Working Poor : Some Empirical Results.

Most welfare reform programs incorporate negative income tax principles. However, if a program reduces the work incentive and therefore the hours of work of its new participants, projected income increases will be lower and subsidy costs higher than...

Jan 1, 1970
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Income Guarantees and the Working Poor: The Effect of Income Maintenance Programs on the Hours of Work of Male Family Heads

Analyzes economic effects of alternative income maintenance programs, considering male recipients' work or leisure choices.

Jan 1, 1970
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Markov Chain Analysis of a Situation Where Cannibalization is the Only Repair Activity.

Considers a group of [S] identical aircraft, each of which is partitioned into [K] parts which fail exponentially. The only way in which a failed aircraft can be repaired is by cannibalizing its out-of-commission parts from other failed aircraft. T...

Jan 1, 1970
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Small company strategy in minority group employment

Suggested personnel policies for small companies recruiting and hiring members of minority groups. Small companies can capitalize on their size by emphasizing more personal and informal human relationships in their recruiting activity. They can upg...

Jan 1, 1966

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