Research Catalog

Title

Research on future skill demands : a workshop summary / Margaret Hilton, rapporteur ; Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Hilton, Margaret L.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Center for Education.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

Description

xiii, 112 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Alternative Title

Future skill demands

Subjects

• Employees > Training of > United States > Congresses
• Skilled labor > Supply and demand > United States > Forecasting > Congresses
• Employment forecasting > United States > Congresses

Note

• Summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council, held May31-June 1, 2007 in Washington, D.C.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-100).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

Contents

Framing the research on future skills -- Labor market trends : a loss of middle-class jobs? -- Skill demands of knowledge work -- Skill demands of service work -- Promising new data and research methods -- Skill supply and demand -- Implications for education and training -- Final reflections.

ISBN

• 0309114799
• 9780309114790

OCLC

• 198756746
• ocn198756746
• SCSB-5391436

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries