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1 Framing the Research on Future Skills
1 Framing the Research on Future Skills
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Russell Sage Foundation president Eric Wanner then described the challenge of addressing the two guiding questions. He warned that understanding both future workplace skill demands and educational needs is "an extremely hard problem .
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However, Wanner said, research funded by the Future of Work program also found that an additional factor -- the regulatory and labor market framework -- is very important in determining wage levels. He observed that, in the United States, 25 percent of all employed workers earn less than two-thirds of the median gross hourly wage of all employees. By comparison, he said, the proportion of workers earning less than two-thirds of the median gross hourly wage is 8.5 percent in Denmark, 12.7 percent in France, and around 20 percent in Germany and the United Kingdom (Lloyd, Mason, and Mayhew, 2008)
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He said he hoped this variety would generate discussion, while also cautioning that "there are real gaps in the methodologies for examining skills." To begin addressing these gaps and inform future research efforts, he said, the first day's agenda includes a session on research methods. Finally, he said, because the steering committee recognized that concerns about workforce skills are not new, they asked David Finegold to open the workshop with a brief history of past policy discussions on the issue.
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, from about 2001 and continuing today, characterized by concerns about the loss of highly paid professional and technical jobs to other nations. Finegold noted that, despite concerns raised in the first two eras, the United States remains the global leader among the world's economies, with growing productivity and output. The continuing strength of the national economy is partly attributable to unforeseen events, such as the recession in One research method for understanding changing skill demands and educational needs -- employer surveys -- was discussed briefly at the workshop but was not explored in depth.
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Individual U.S. workers bear more of the risks of employment than in the past, as companies provide less job security and fewer health insurance and pension benefits (National Research Council, 1999)
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