Increasing Workforce Skills: The Possible Disconnect between Employers and Potential Job Seekers

Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel

No 413254, Cornhusker Economics from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics

Abstract: In a multi-year survey of potential job seekers, those who are likely to change jobs in the next year or who are likely to reenter the workforce in the next year, several key training obstacles for improving their employment situation were identified. There seemed to be only slight differences in how they viewed these challenges, regardless of whether they saw their potential job as a career, a steppingstone to a career, or just a job to get by. The cost of training, the lack of available training, the distance or transportation to the training, lack of time, and the knowledge of what is available were all substantial barriers to training.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.413254

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