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Research on Future Skill Demands
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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. The reports call for rapid improvements in K-12 and higher education to prepare young people with the higher skills said to be required for the coming century (Business–Higher Education Forum, 2003; Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2005). The National Academies report Rising Aboe the Gathering Storm (National Research Council, 2007a) argued that, to meet growing global competition for high-skill, high-wage jobs, the government should increase funding of research and development and strengthen the science and mathematics education of the nation’s future workforce. The America Competes Act (Public Law 110-69), signed into law in August 2007, is designed to carry out the recommendations of that report. 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 grow- ing gap in wages between college-educated workers and those with less edu- cation (e.g., Berman, Bound, and Machin, 1998; Acemoglu, 2003). Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003a) found that computerization and globalization are driving increasing demand for skills in solving non-routine problems and effectively communicating complex information, along with basic read- ing, writing, and mathematics skills. Extending this analysis, Levy and Murnane (2004) call for reorienting K-12 education to help more young people develop problem-solving and communication skills in the context of existing school subjects.
Margaret Hilton, - Personal Name
978-0-309-11479-0
NONE
Management
English
2001
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