The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections of occupational employment growth have consistently underpredicted the growth of skilled occupations. BLS currently projects that professional, technical, and managerial jobs will account for 44.5% of employment growth between 1988 and 2000, while we project they will account for 70% of employment growth. Between March 1988 and March 1991 these occupations, in fact, accounted for 87% of employment growth. The BLS\u27s projections of the supply/demand balance for college graduates have also been off the mark-predicting a surplus for the 1980s when, in fact, a shortage developed, and relative wage ratios for college graduates rose to all-time highs. We project that the supply of college educate...
Increased education is associated with both higher wages and lower unemployment. This Spotlight on S...
There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have mill...
[Excerpt] Skill demands also appear to be rising within occupations. Increasing numbers of manufactu...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections of occupational employment growth have consistently...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of occupational employment growth have consistently under...
[Excerpt] Demand for college graduates workers was strong during the 1980s (Blackburn, Bloom and Fr...
[Excerpt] The growing shortage of professionally trained workers and the rising skill premiums will ...
Recent cohorts of college enrollees are more likely to work, and work substantially more, than those...
Recent cohorts of college enrollees are more likely to work, and work substantially more, than those...
[Excerpt] At the beginning of the 1980\u27s, some analysts predicted an increase in lower-skilled jo...
Analyzes trends in the state's supply and demand of college-educated workers, the projected shortfal...
The United States has benefitted from an educated workforce that has been integral to the growth in ...
Among better-educated employed men, the fraction of full-time full-year (FTFY) workers is quite high...
[Excerpt] In the late 1960s and early 1970s American students were told that the value of a college ...
Half of college students drop out before completing a degree. These low rates of college completion ...
Increased education is associated with both higher wages and lower unemployment. This Spotlight on S...
There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have mill...
[Excerpt] Skill demands also appear to be rising within occupations. Increasing numbers of manufactu...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections of occupational employment growth have consistently...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of occupational employment growth have consistently under...
[Excerpt] Demand for college graduates workers was strong during the 1980s (Blackburn, Bloom and Fr...
[Excerpt] The growing shortage of professionally trained workers and the rising skill premiums will ...
Recent cohorts of college enrollees are more likely to work, and work substantially more, than those...
Recent cohorts of college enrollees are more likely to work, and work substantially more, than those...
[Excerpt] At the beginning of the 1980\u27s, some analysts predicted an increase in lower-skilled jo...
Analyzes trends in the state's supply and demand of college-educated workers, the projected shortfal...
The United States has benefitted from an educated workforce that has been integral to the growth in ...
Among better-educated employed men, the fraction of full-time full-year (FTFY) workers is quite high...
[Excerpt] In the late 1960s and early 1970s American students were told that the value of a college ...
Half of college students drop out before completing a degree. These low rates of college completion ...
Increased education is associated with both higher wages and lower unemployment. This Spotlight on S...
There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have mill...
[Excerpt] Skill demands also appear to be rising within occupations. Increasing numbers of manufactu...