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A Ford Foundation Working Paper that discusses the demographic, technological and educational causes of youth and adult unemployment. Also describes some program responses of the Ford Foundation in the areas of basic literacy skills, public-private partnerships for training, research in structural changes in the labor market and policy studies.

Ford Foundation
1983
63 pages


Preface
The Problem
Unemployment
Demography
Incidence of Youth Unemployment
Geography and Education
Economic Hardship
Technology and the Restructuring of Work
Programs from the Past
Ceta Programs for Youth
Shortcomings of Employment and Training Programs
Foundation Activities
Strategies for the Future
Strategy I: Developing the Basic-Literacy Skills of Dropouts and Other High-Risk Youth Through the Improved Use of Competency-Based Curricula As Well As Computer-Managed and Computer-Assisted Instruction Programs
Strategy II: Promoting Public-Private Partnerships That Address the Training Needs of High-Risk and Dropout Youth
Strategy III: Supporting Research and Policy Studies Involving Youth, Education, Labor Markets, and Alternative Forms of Employment
Strategy IV: Clarifying and Testing Ways in Which Displaced Workers Can Adapt to Structural Transformation of the Labor Market
Conclusion
Notes