Product Description: The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is the premier, nationally recognized source for career information. Especially designed to provide valuable up-to-date information, the Handbook is great for all individuals making decisions about their futures including students about to graduate from high school or college, recent graduates, individuals returning to the workforce after an absence, or anyone looking for a career change...read more

Product Description: The Occupational Outlook Handbook, the federal government s premier career guidance publication since the 1940s, is used by millions of people including counselors, students, jobseekers, employment training specialists, and researchers...read more

Product Description: In 2013, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $706. On average in 2013, women made 82 percent of the median weekly earnings of male full time wage and salary workers ($860. In 1979, the first year for which comparable earnings data are available, women earned 62 percent of what men earned...read more

Product Description: Recent research studies cover the varying perspectives on education by ethnicity and race and the methods in which families exert influence over educational choices. In addition, a number of studies that are rooted in Human Capital Theory evaluate returns to schooling—education increases an individual’s productivity and contributes to an individual’s capacity to improve his or her financial and social well-being...read more

Product Description: The last 30 years have seen a shift in the allocation of U.S. consumer expenditures from commodities to services. This article uses Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) data and Consumer Price Index (CPI) “relative importance” and index data (1) to show that the shift has been driven by changes not only in price but also in quantity and (2) to identify the particular categories of services driving the overall shift to services consumption...read more

Product Description: The Occupational Outlook Handbook, the federal government’s premier career guidance publication since the 1940s, is used by millions of people including counselors, students, jobseekers, employment training specialists, and researchers...read more

Product Description: "Reflects the latest employment projections"--P. [4] of cover.

Product Description: The 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system is used by Federal statistical agencies to classify workers and jobs into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, analyzing, or disseminating data.

Product Description: "A Dictionary of occupational titles supplement"--Cover.

Product Description: Provides an overview of industry and occupational employment projections for the 1998-2008 period.  Focuses on industries and occupations that will generate the largest portion of the projected job growth.  Discusses the implications of employment growth on the quality of jobs in term of earnings and on the education and training requirements of jobs that will be generated from 1998-2008...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)