Competitiveness and the Quality of the American Work Force: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Education and Health of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - Competition, International |
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Page 277 - The views I express are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of members of the Board of Trustees of the Citizens's Research Foundation.
Page 6 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee: I am very pleased to have the opportunity to appear before you today to present the views of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on S.
Page 163 - If present trends continue without corrective actions, American business will confront a severe employment crisis. The scarcity of well-educated and wellqualified people in the work force will seriously damage this country's competitive position in an increasingly challenging global marketplace.
Page 265 - In response to the continued feminization of work, the convenience industries will boom, with "instant" products and "delivered-to-the-door" service becoming common throughout the economy. Demands for day care and for more time off from work for pregnancy leave and child-rearing duties will certainly increase, as will interest in part-time, flexible, and stay-at-home jobs. • Minorities will be a larger share of new entrants into the labor force: Non-whites will make up 29 percent of the new entrants...
Page 258 - Despite its international comeback, US manufacturing will be a much smaller share of the economy in the year 2000 than it is today. Service industries will create all of the new jobs, and most of the new wealth, over the next 13 years.
Page 270 - The need for more, better-educated immigrants to help staff a growing economy will increase as the growth of the population and labor force slows in the 1990s. Despite the political and social objections, the nation should begin a program of gradually increasing its quotas and opening its doors to more individuals desiring to enter the country. Reconciling the Demands of Women, Work, and Families: America has become a society in which everyone is expected to work — including women with young children....
Page 264 - Unemployment Remains Stubbornly High: The baseline scenario forecasts unemployment at just over 7 percent in the year 2000, despite the relatively slow growth of the labor force projected over the period. In the deflation scenario, unemployment climbs above 9 percent, while even in the boom scenario unemployment is reduced only to 5.9 percent. • Disposable Income Increases Moderately: Disposable personal income per person, the best single measure of how rapidly society is improving its standard...
Page 265 - In combination, these demographic changes will mean that the new workers entering the workforce between now and the year 2000 will be much different from those who people it today. Non-whites, women, and immigrants will make up more than five-sixths of the net additions to the workforce between now and the year 2000, though they make up only about half of it today...
Page 271 - If the policies and employment patterns of the present continue, it is likely that the demographic opportunity of the 1990s will be missed and that by the year 2000 the problems of minority unemployment, crime, and dependency will be worse than they are today. Without substantial adjustments, blacks and Hispanics will have a smaller fraction of the jobs of the year 2000 than they have today, while their share of those seeking work will have risen.
Page 258 - The new jobs in service industries will demand much higher skill levels than the jobs of today. Very few new jobs will be created for those who cannot read, follow directions, and use mathematics.