Posts Tagged ‘college labor market’
Mismatch in the Labor Market: The Supply of and Demand for “Middle-Skill” Workers in New England
by Alicia Sasser Modestino
February 8, 2011
Over the past decade, policymakers and business leaders across New England have been concerned that the region’s slower population growth and loss of residents to other parts of the country will lead to a shortage of skilled labor—particularly when the baby boom generation retires. Prior to the Great Recession, the concern ...
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A Labor Market Mismatch in New England
by David Mabe
December 13, 2010
A mismatch is brewing between the supply of skilled workers in New England and the increasing demand for such workers, according to a new report by the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
The study by senior economist Alicia Sasser Modestino shows that, over the next 10 years, New England ...
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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.
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College Labor Shortages in 2018?
by Paul E. Harrington and Andrew M. Sum
November 8, 2010
The Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce has engaged in a highly publicized campaign claiming that the nation will face a very substantial deficit of college graduates by 2018 if the American postsecondary system fails to rapidly expand the number of college degrees it awards each year. Indeed, the employment ...
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Mismatch in the Marketplace: NEPPC Forum to Address Supply and Demand in Labor Force
by Shoshana Akins
October 18, 2010
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will host a free forum, titled "Mismatch in the Labor Market? Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Skilled Labor in New England," on Tuesday, Nov. 30, from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
Alicia Sasser Modestino, senior economist at the FRBB's New England Public Policy Center will describe the misalignment between the ...
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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 ...
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Applications to One Business School Skyrocketed Despite Recession
by Sharon Tao
July 19, 2010
In the past two years, the global financial crisis has wreaked havoc on businesses in America and abroad. But the gloom and doom seems to have had the opposite effect on business schools. The reason is that a recession often signals the perfect time for proactive students to sharpen their skill sets, shift their career ...
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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 ...
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