Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States
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Keywords
education; workforce development; jobs; skills; employment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
- J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2012-05-22 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2012-05-22 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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