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The influx of Indochinese refugees into the United States since 1975 has forced policy development in various resettlement areas. Considerable emphasis has been placed on employment and employment barriers. This article investigates the refugee employment process. A multivariate model is used to distinguish employed from unemployed refugees. Early arrivals, recent arrivals, and each of the four major ethnic groups is investigated separately.

This study finds that, although energy policy preferences are related to political party identification, they are often more strongly related to perceived seriousness of the energy situation, to education, and to age. Those who perceive the situation to be serious, and the young, are more likely than others to favor conservation and abandonment of existing energy supplies in favor of nonconventional supplies. Also, the partisan dimension of the energy issue is found to increase as consideration of the issue becomes more specific.