Outsourcing: bigger than you thought: the outsourcing wave is about to hit the service sector. To keep good service jobs, we need to prepare the workforce and understand the jobs.
American Prospect, The, November, 2006 by Blinder, Alan S.
THE GREAT CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL philosopher Edmund Burke, who probably would not have been a reader of The American Prospect, once observed, "You can never plan the future by the past." But when it comes to preparing the American workforce for the jobs of the future, we may be doing just that.
For about a quarter-century, demand for labor appears to have shifted toward the college-educated and away from high-school graduates and dropouts. This shift, most economists believe, is the primary (though not the sole) reason for rising income inequality, and there is no ...
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