Posts Tagged ‘Anthony P. Carnevale’
Public Radio Program Explores Why So Many Americans Drop Out of College
by John O. Harney
September 8, 2011
More people are going to college than ever before. But in the U.S., about half of the people who start don't finish, leaving about 37 million Americans with some college credit but no degrees, according to "Some College, No Degree," a new documentary from American Radioworks.
The first in a three-part series exploring how higher education ...
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College Labor Shortages in 2018? Part Deux
by Paul E. Harrington and Andrew M. Sum
December 7, 2010
(This lively debate on the future demand for college-educated workers will continue in our Forum.)
“About every two years someone comes up with this story. There is absolutely nothing to it—it's simply not true,” Peter Capelli, Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, commenting on the Georgetown's college labor supply shortage forecast.
Tags: Andrew M. Sum, Anthony P. Carnevale, college labor market, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, malemployment, Northeastern University, Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, Paul E. Harrington, unemployment | No Comments
More than 2 Million Job Vacancies Forecast for NE by 2018 … But Do Our Workers Have What it Takes to Fill Them?
by Anthony P. Carnevale and Nicole Smith
September 10, 2010
The New England states, like the rest of the nation, are finally starting to show signs of a recovery from the Great Recession of 2008, albeit at different paces. Three of the states, however, still have unemployment rates that are about four percentage points above where they were before the recession began in 2007 ...
Read MoreTags: Andrew M. Sum, Anthony P. Carnevale, college labor market, Georgetown University, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018, National Education Longitudinal Study, Nicole Smith, Paul E. Harrington | 2 Comments
The Real Education Crisis: Are 35% of all College Degrees in New England Unnecessary?
by Anthony P. Carnevale, Nicole Smith and Jeff Strohl
November 30, 2010
The notion of the "college labor market" as a fixed set of occupations is remarkably static. In contrast, we assume that job and skill requirements are dynamic.
(This lively debate over future demand of college-educated workers will continue in our Forum.)
Northeastern University economists Paul E. Harrington and Andrew M. Sum argue that in our ...
Read MoreTags: Andrew M. Sum, Anthony P. Carnevale, college labor market, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Jeff Strohl, malemployment, Nicole Smith, Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, Paul E. Harrington, unemployment | 1 Comment