Why are manufacturers struggling to hire high-skilled workers?

Britton Lombardi and William Testa

Chicago Fed Letter, 2011, issue July, No 289

Abstract: The authors examine the apparent lack of high-skilled workers for the U.S. manufacturing sector by focusing on the educational attainment and wage compensation of manufacturing workers and their nonmanufacturing counterparts over the period 1990?2007.

Keywords: Wages; Manufacturing industries; Skilled labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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