Browsing Ray Marshall Center Research Reports by Issue Date
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The Role of Texas Secondary Schools in the Preparation of Youth for Employment
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1970)The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of public secondary vocational education in meeting the manpower needs of Texas. The contention of this report is that public high school vocational education has ... -
Black Employment in a Tight Labor Market: The Houston Experience
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1970)The study of Black Employment in a Tight Labor Market: The Houston Experience by Professor Vernon M. Briggs, Jr, is part of a project on Negro Employment in the South (NES) sponsored by the Manpower Administration of the ... -
Black Entry Into the Apprentice Trades: Lessons of the Sixties and Prospects for the Seventies
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1970-03)Underrepresentation of minorities in the mechanical trades is a pattern found in many cities across the country. Paper presented at the Indiana University Manpower Conference March 20, 1970. -
Rural Industrialization and Rural Poverty in the South: A Report on Some Literature
(1971)Rural industrialization is a significant topic for several reasons. First, the high level of underemployment in Southern rural areas naturally mises the question, given the drastic decline of agricultural employment, can ... -
Rural Poverty: The Economic Status of the Chicano Population and the Needs of Public Policy for the 1970"s
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1971-02)A prime example of the incongruity between public policy and human needs 1s to be found in the treatment of the Chicano population of rural America. It is this group that is the subject of this paper. -
Chicanos and Rural Poverty: A Continuing Issue for the 1970"s
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1971-05)This study pertains to those people of Mexican descent who reside in five Southwestern states (Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and California). -
An Analysis of Traditional Routes of Entry into Selected Construction Unions
(1972-05)Focus is on the relatively narrow issue of entry into the unions. Who is allowed to join the construction unions, and what are the procedures which must be followed in order to Join? What standards must be met· by prospective ... -
Effectiveness of Social Science Research for Public Policy
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1972-10)This paper seeks to synthesize some of the main conclusions a of those who have thought about or studied the uses and limitations of social science research for public policy. The paper is designed to provide some background ... -
The Public Employment Program in Texas: An Assessment of the First Year's Operations of the Emergency Employment Act of 1971
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1972-11)An Assessment of the First Year's Operations of the Emergency Employment Act of 1971 in Texas -
Implications of Noninstitutional Considerations Upon the Effectiveness of Manpower Programs for Chicanos
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1973-01)The paper is an effort to posit the probability that there is a definite need for fragmented policy measures if assurances of equal economic opportunities are to be provided to all individuals in all racial subgroups. -
A Comparison of Union Construction Workers Who Have Achieved Journeyman Status Through Partnership and Other Means
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1973-12)We sought mainly to determine the influence of apprenticeship on the employment and earnings of selected construction craftsmen and secondarily to learn how informally trained journeymen learned their trades. Information ... -
Operation Mainstream in Central and South Texas
(1974)This study is primarily focused on the rural components of Operation Mainstream in central and south Texas. Data were collected directly from the files of the local projects, and interviews were conducted with the staffs ... -
Concerted Services in Training and Education
(1974)Concerted Services in Training and Education (CSTE) is a small experimental program originally intended to provide for better coordination and utilization of existing occupational education programs in small towns and ... -
Black Employment in the South
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1974-01)This paper summarizes the major findings of the 'Negro Employment in the South Project (NES). The main objective of the NES project was to analyze black employment patterns in 13 Southern states with a view to making policy ... -
The Mexico-United States Border: Public Policy and Chicano Economic Welfare
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources and the Bureau of Business Research, 1974-01)n 1970, the gross national product for the United States was over $974 billion; for Mexico, it was $33 billion. The U.S. per capita national income was approximately $4,300, while Mexico's was slightly above $500. Living ... -
The Crop Support Programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or Who Gets the Grain and Who Gets the Chaff
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1974-04)The picture of agriculture presented by journalism and the mass media to the American public has changed markedly within the first years of the 1970's. The gist has changed from low agricultural commodity prices and expansive ... -
Dichotomous Market Structure and the Labor Force Participation of the Urban Poor
(1974-08)The purpose of this study is to attempt to explain these large differences in the labor force participation of the poor and the non poor populations. In the course of this analysis, we will seek to define a theory which ... -
Bibliography: Citrus Labor Market Issues
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1974-09)Bibliography on Labor and Management -
The Migration of Mexican Nationals into the United States: A Mounting Issue for the 1970's
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1974-12)Legal migration from Mexico is an important but not significant migration factor; it far exceeded in both number and consequences by illegal entry. With respect to the quantitative impact of illegal Mexican entry, it is ... -
Economies of Size and the Future of Black Farmers
(Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, 1975-01)This paper attempts to assess the options available to blacks in agriculture by examining the existence of economies of size in agricultural production and the importance of these economies in (a) explaining the past ...
