| Abstract: |
The article presents a study to design, develop, and demonstrate techniques by means of which urban areas throughout the nation may secure and maintain reliable and timely labor market information and may control those underlying relationships that exert significant influences on employment. The study seeks to analyze demands for labor and changes in these demands. For the study to have maximum value as a guide to public policy, it must discover means of analyzing and appraising both objective and subjective aspects of demand. For developing a satisfactory group of techniques for the appraisal of specific demands for labor, evaluating the structural setting in which these demands appear may be done. The article describes the possible methods for evaluating the essential elements in this structure. Such a market may be objectively defined as an area in which there are sales of a specific type of labor, defined in terms of occupation, skill, experience, sex, and such other qualifications as may be stated or imposed in practice, or the labor force of a local industry, where only minimum levels of skill, experience, and other qualifications may be required. |