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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Staff
Pages 109-112

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... David Autor is associate professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a faculty research fellow in the Program on Labor Studies and Education of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is currently engaged in two research programs, one on the growth of labor market intermediation, and the other on job skill demands, technological change, and earnings inequality.
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From page 110...
... An ethnographer of work and occupations, she studies the work activities of professional, technical, and knowledge workers in order to understand the changing nature of postindustrial work and its theoretical and practical implications for how organizations are managed. Her recent studies have examined how workers in manufacturing use engineering drawings and prototype machines to solve problems, how film crew members learn and coordinate their work in temporary organizations, and how contract workers acquire jobs that stretch their skills in order to advance their careers.
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From page 111...
... She has a bachelor's degree in geography (with high honors) from the University of Michigan and a master of regional planning degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and she is currently studying for a master's degree in human resource development at George Washington University.
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From page 112...
... At the Human Resources Research Organization, he designed data collection and analysis procedures for elements of the ongoing O* NET occupational analysis effort, and led a future-oriented job analysis project for the U.S.
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Key Terms

  • skill demands
  • market intermediation
  • labor markets
  • continuing education
  • changing economy

  • brookings institution
  • congressional office
  • standards board
  • special issue
  • american journal

  • knowledge workers
  • contract workers
  • thompson professor
  • engineering drawings
  • job analysis

  • faculty research
  • educational quality
  • directed projects
  • peter cappelli
  • planning degree

  • foss thompson
  • temporary organizations
  • job market
  • skill standards
  • analysis procedures

  • management perspectives
  • guest editor
  • founding editor
  • human resource
  • market efficiency


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