Thompson Today, it is more the variety and quality of local employment opportunities in the smaller urban area that creates cause for con-cern. The narrow range of occupations that emanate from a narrow product base offers little opportunity for up-grading on the job, a still important alternative to formal education. But probably most important of all, especially in days to come, is the place-ment problem posed by the highly educated husband and wife team --professional or technical labor in joint supply. If females would resign themselves to roles as teachers and nurses, if they insist on becoming educated and professional, joint placement would be easier. There are schools everywhere and a clinic, if not a hospital, almost everywhere. But reflect on the vocational problem of the psychologist wife of the chemical engineer whose employer selects a small town plant location (near the basic raw material). The probability of both positions appearing in the same urban place is the product of the two probabilities for that size place. But an even greater scale is required to generate enough positions in each occupation so that there is a high probability that both positions will be open simultaneously, or nearly so. Again, while the chemical company may make provision for continuing graduate education in chemical engineering, what are the prospects for post-degree work in psy-chology in a remote small town? 27 May 1971

DOI link for Thompson Today, it is more the variety and quality of local employment opportunities in the smaller urban area that creates cause for con-cern. The narrow range of occupations that emanate from a narrow product base offers little opportunity for up-grading on the job, a still important alternative to formal education. But probably most important of all, especially in days to come, is the place-ment problem posed by the highly educated husband and wife team --professional or technical labor in joint supply. If females would resign themselves to roles as teachers and nurses, if they insist on becoming educated and professional, joint placement would be easier. There are schools everywhere and a clinic, if not a hospital, almost everywhere. But reflect on the vocational problem of the psychologist wife of the chemical engineer whose employer selects a small town plant location (near the basic raw material). The probability of both positions appearing in the same urban place is the product of the two probabilities for that size place. But an even greater scale is required to generate enough positions in each occupation so that there is a high probability that both positions will be open simultaneously, or nearly so. Again, while the chemical company may make provision for continuing graduate education in chemical engineering, what are the prospects for post-degree work in psy-chology in a remote small town? 27 May 1971

Thompson Today, it is more the variety and quality of local employment opportunities in the smaller urban area that creates cause for con-cern. The narrow range of occupations that emanate from a narrow product base offers little opportunity for up-grading on the job, a still important alternative to formal education. But probably most important of all, especially in days to come, is the place-ment problem posed by the highly educated husband and wife team --professional or technical labor in joint supply. If females would resign themselves to roles as teachers and nurses, if they insist on becoming educated and professional, joint placement would be easier. There are schools everywhere and a clinic, if not a hospital, almost everywhere. But reflect on the vocational problem of the psychologist wife of the chemical engineer whose employer selects a small town plant location (near the basic raw material). The probability of both positions appearing in the same urban place is the product of the two probabilities for that size place. But an even greater scale is required to generate enough positions in each occupation so that there is a high probability that both positions will be open simultaneously, or nearly so. Again, while the chemical company may make provision for continuing graduate education in chemical engineering, what are the prospects for post-degree work in psy-chology in a remote small town? 27 May 1971