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Uses recent data from the San Francisco's Bay Area Longitudinal Survey (BALS) to evaluate characteristics of recruiting and screening methods, skill requirements in entry-level jobs, and promotional opportunities concerning jobs available to workers with little formal education or work experience. Finds that low-skilled jobs do require skills in English, mathematics, problem-solving and communication, often relatively high physical and mechanical...

In this study, the authors develop an indicator of the value of human capital stock held by the nation's working-age population. They then use that indicator to assess the utilization of the nation's human capital stock overall and by a number of demographic subgroups. This serves to complement the many existing indicators that measure the U.S. economy's capital utilization.

A companion to The new American workplace, which is co-published with the Society for Human Resource Management and the Center for Effective Organizations, this volume contains original articles on workplace issues in America today. Leading scholars in the fields of business, management, and human resources contribute groundbreaking research, highlighting the relevance of these issues for private and public policy.

Study comparing trends in job content, career pattern and occupational status of nonmanual workers in the electrical machinery industry, public service and banking in the USA between 1940 and 1970 - discusses working conditions, technological change, labour force participation of woman workers and minority groups, educational level, the role of job satisfaction in labour turnover, trade unionization, etc. Bibliography.

From the author, an economist, this book is an examination of innovation and success, and where to find them in America. An unprecedented redistribution of jobs, population, and wealth is under way in America, and it is likely to accelerate in the years to come. America's new economic map shows growing differences, not just between people but especially between communities. In this book, the author provides a fresh perspective on the tectonic shifts...

Based on data from the Area Wage Survey for 20 urban labour markets for the period 1974-1991, examines changes in wage inequality in local labour markets during the 1980s.

In this book, Ann Crittenden argues that although women have been liberated, mothers have not. Drawing on hundreds of interviews from around the country, as well as the most current research in economics, sociology, history, child development and law, she shows how mothers are systematically disadvantaged and made dependent by a society that celebrates the labor of child-rearing but undervalues and even exploits those who perform it. The price of...

Study of woman workers in export oriented industries on the northern frontier in Mexico - based on a field study (1978-1979) in Ciudad Juarez, discusses industrial worker demographic aspects, educational level, wage differentials, working conditions, obstacles to trade unionization, seasonal unemployment, underemployment, labour market segmentation, employees attitudes and social implications of the Border Industrialization Program based on multinational...

This book includes a careful discussion of the substantive meaning of racial equality as a social goal and a detailed assessment of policy recommendations for remedying persistent disparity.

In this updated edition, economists, scholars, and researchers examine the future of the American workforce. The book contains four chapters addressing topics such as globalization, technology, education, the labor market, and the economy. Includes information on generational trends.