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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

NALT Core

Concept information

  1. Fields of Study
  2. economics
  3. labor and demographic economics
  4. labor economics
  5. occupations
  1. Economics, Trade, Law, Business, Industry
  2. economics
  3. labor and demographic economics
  4. labor economics
  5. occupations

Preferred term

occupations

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information General categories of job or work specializations, as characterized by duties, skill levels, status, pay, responsibility levels, or other distinguishing factors.

    Source: ERIC Thesaurus

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • professions

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/11820

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