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Why are manufacturers struggling to hire high-skilled workers?


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;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Part of Series: Chicago Fed Letter

Publication Date: 2011

Issue: July

Order Number: 289