Research on Future Skill Demands: A Workshop Summary

by Margaret Hilton, Center for Education, National Research Council, et al.

Over the past five years, business and education groups have issued a series of reports indicating that the skill demands of work are rising, due to rapid technological change and increasing global competition. Researchers have begun to study changing workplace skill demands. Some economists have found that technological change is "skill-biased," increasing demand for highly skilled workers and contributing to the growing gap in wages between college-educated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309114799
• ISBN13: 9780309114790
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 126 Pages