There's a degree of skill spillover in the labor market – even if a person is very skilled.
"Even below degree level, addressing the shortage of skilled technicians we face will require better-quality courses, with a strong role for businesses working with universities, colleges and providers to design the curriculum".
In which case, nothing may be better than this past weekend's rerelease of Monsters, Inc., the superb Pixar comedy -- now enhanced, to a more-or-less nominal degree, with 3D -- about a couple of skilled child scarers coming undone when a young target manages to sneak into their city.
"It will offer degrees in five areas that face a shortage of skilled workers: Computer sciences, engineering, business, architecture, and intercultural studies.
I constructed two measures of skill intensity: the change in the ratio of skilled to unskilled workers, where a skilled worker is defined either as one with a secondary degree or above (secondary degrees include vocational, high school, and post-secondary (two years after higher school) degrees); or one with a university degree or above.
This study uses a common international definition which classifies skilled immigrants as individuals who have completed a two-year college degree or more and are employed in a variety of skilled occupations (Batalova & Lowell, 2007).
For example, Slovak immigrants have the highest share of skilled immigrants with a master's degree or higher (71%), but they ranked 14th in income.
This interval was conditioned by the lack of availability of skilled interviewers with medical or pharmaceutical degree.
Nursing is seen as a semi-skilled activity – a series of tasks of varying degrees of technical skill.
Our results largely support their findings: industry concentration and degree of unionization for instance hamper innovation; skilled labor promotes it.
