When looking for a job, how does the American workforce prepare their skills? Philosopher Edmund Burke said, “You can never plan the future by the past.” David Blinder author of “Will Your Job Be Exported,” writes about the American Workforce skills and education that will be needed for future jobs. Blinder, will explain his theory to help Americans plan for jobs skills that will prepare them for the future. He writes about wage difference, the value of education, and how to prepare personal job skills that might become high in demand because of jobs being offshored.
There has always been a wage difference between those with higher education or skills. Which plays a factor in how Americans choose a career that will make them successful. In “Will Your Job Be Exported,” it claims that the government tried to make the wage difference better by rising minimum wage and expanding the Earn Income Tax Credit. Blinder points out that the reason that this failed is, because there
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At one point in time there was the required levels of skill and education that determine this factor. The new distinction between the jobs can and cannot be offshored is that some jobs may require personal delivery, or they are degrading when electronically delivered, while other jobs are not. Blinder gives his theory which contain three main point about preparing our workforce for the future.
He believes that the first step is to change education and keep in mind the distinction between personal and impersonal service jobs. “Many of the impersonal service jobs will migrate offshore, but the personal service jobs will stay here” (in America). His second advice is make personal service jobs more impersonal, with technology processing soon make it possible to deliver services electronically. Third, there is no longer the requirement of skill and education, but the new way to distinguish a jobs from personal or impersonal is how well the job can be
“Intelligence is closely associated with formal education- the type of schooling a person has, how much and how long- and most people seem to move comfortably from the notion to a belief that work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence” (Rose 276). My Dad has worked blue collar jobs his entire life. Security guard, lawn service, woodworker, carpenter, plus anything else that involves his hands. He didn’t have any schooling past his high school diploma. But he’s always told me, “Yeah, I wish I went to college, but I’m sure as hell glad I was taught and forced to learn the skills I have now. Like doing things on my own and working with my hands, my work ethic, and my ability to absorb as many things as I could to get the job done.” Blue collar jobs can never be outsourced. There will always be a need for plumbers, electricians, machine operators, carpenters and many, many more
Globalisation is a growing phenomenon that is the result of various developments in the global environment, each of which merits an individual analysis of its social impacts. For the purpose of this analysis, the focus will be placed upon arguably its most controversial aspect, offshore outsourcing. Offshore outsourcing, or offshoring, is becoming an increasingly common business practice as a result of a combination of the recent technological advancements in the areas of transportation and communication, and the increased competitiveness of the business world. From the perspective of firms, tapping into cheap labor from less developed countries is a very logical business decision to reduce costs and maximize profits. This has not only motivated businesses to engage in offshoring, it has sometimes been critical to their survival in fiercely competitive environments.
Cook provides data from the Federal Reserve bank in St. Louis. Where Senior economist Guillaume Vanderbroucke calculated the percentage differences between lifetime incomes for workers with different levels of education. From the data it shows that a person with a college education earns at least 37 percent more over their lifetimes than those that do not have an education. The article goes on to point out that college educated students are able to deal with economic crises than those that are not college educated. Cook finishes by pointing out that the cost of education is has doubled in 2013-2013 since
Throughout the United States, some types of work are valued highly over others. This stigma strongly associates the idea all career paths without the need of formal education require no cognitive skill and are unable to teach the same principles as a traditional classroom. This also causes the view that blue-careers specializing in a trade are overall lesser than white collar or office work that mandate a college degree. Authors Matthew B. Crawford and Mike Rose both argue this widespread belief is unfair and incorrect in their essays “The Case for Working with Your Hands” and “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” respectively. However, Crawford’s recollection of his own personal experience does not explain the valuable skills and knowledge learned from
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If more people went to college, and less went the vocational route, jobs will take a momentous hit. Today, companies will not even touch an application that does not include a Bachelor’s Degree; even if the Bachelor’s Degree has nothing to do with the job being applied for. Attention is not given to whether the hopeful applicant qualifies for the job; all that matters is that the applicant has a Bachelor’s degree. Murray best sums up the American job market when he says, “Employers do not value what the student learned, just that the student has a degree” (Murray). However, if less people obtain a Bachelor’s Degree, employers will be forced to base applicants on their skills, and abilities. Furthermore, important vocational jobs that lie vacant will be filled. Good electricians, carpenters, and construction workers will always be in
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But progress has stalled in recent years” (Hill, 3). The equal pay gap percentage varies from study to study, ranging from as high as 79% to as low as 21%. But no matter the percentage, the gap is still there. Education is not a factor in the reasoning behind the pay gap, however it is not the solution either. In the modern workplace, men and women are salaried at different wages, even if both the man and the woman have the same educational background. Often times, even if the woman has more of an educational background than the man, the man is recompensed more. Although the woman has a bachelors degree, and the man only has a high school diploma. In some cases as well, the higher the education, and the higher the job, the wage gap is even larger the majority of the time. Even still, if a Hispanic women and black women have the
It is a very daunting question that looms over many Americans. “What does our future hold?” is the frequently asked question. When people are faced with this question, there is a lot of uncertainty. Many people do not know how to answer. Despite what many might think, America 's future is well known across hundreds of nations all over the world. America 's future has actually been a question people have asked since the beginning of this great nation and has a very important meaning in the lives of many. There are many factors that will affect the United States future. These factors include culture and education, economy, resource management, politics, and protection of freedoms. In this paper, I will give each factor a grade in terms on future
Education and experience are considered “human capital” by economist. The knowledge and skills learned on the job make employees more productive. Historically women were less likely to go to college and graduate, however according to the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics Between 1970 and 2001, women went from being the minority to the majority of the U.S. undergraduate population, increasing their representation from 42 percent to 56 percent of undergraduates. If these trends continue women will make up the larger segment of the skilled labor force. Educational attainment is particularly important in closing the wage gap. The simple fact is that employees with a college degree makes more than employees with a high school education. The gender wage gap exists at all levels of education, and women with graduate degrees experience the widest wage ratio of 73 percent, earning almost $450 less per week than
“Tomorrow’s Jobs.” In Text and Contexts .7th Ed. Robinson, William S. and Staphine Tucker. Boston: Wasworth cengage Learing, 2009.109-117 print.
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You may have heard the topic raised on some morning show or another, but likely thought little of it. However, the figures are quite shocking. According to one author's research, '52 percent of skilled trades are expected to retire within the next 15 years, with 41 per cent of respondents indicating they will face a skills shortage in their industry within five years.'; (Arnold, par. 12).
Most people can find a job in their field, but the amount of people who can not find a job in their field is increasing. “Unequal outcomes from college have always been a fact of life, but there is evidence that the dispersion of outcomes has increased” (Haltom). If a person ha a lower income job, it is not always because they did not have a college education. “1 percent of taxi drivers and roughly 3 percent of bank tellers had a college degree” (Haltom). This shows that even though some people have a college education, they could not find jobs in their field and had to take jobs that they less likely wanted. Haltom also says, “as many as 120,000 of the nations 1.7 million 2012 graduates who wanted to work elsewhere took jobs as waiters, salespeople, cashiers, and the like” (Haltom). More and more people with a college education can not find jobs in their field.