Building a Workforce Development System as an Economic Development Strategy: Lessons from US Programs

Shari Garmise

Local Economy, 2009, vol. 24, issue 3, 211-223

Abstract: In the knowledge economy, the economic prosperity of places is increasingly tied to the talents of its people. Therefore, many cities and regions have made the attraction and retention of skilled people a core economic development strategy. This article argues that a better strategy is actually to increase the overall pool of talent available, and to do so means rethinking, and investing in, the workforce system. Once the literature and theory has been reviewed, the second half of the article mines multiple US case studies for useful lessons on how workforce systems can be developed and better aligned to economic development.

Date: 2009
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/02690940802645497 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:loceco:v:24:y:2009:i:3:p:211-223

DOI: 10.1080/02690940802645497

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Local Economy from London South Bank University
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().