Tackling regional skill shortages: from single employer strategies to local partnerships

Adjusting to Skill Shortages: Complexity and Consequences

Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countries including the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about their prevalence, causes and consequences. This paper attempts to improve our understanding about these issues by using econometric methods to analyse the Business Longitudinal Database, an Australian panel data-set with in...

Technology, Wages and Skill Shortages: Evidence from UK Micro Data

Why have skill shortages continue to persist despite increases in training and the skill levels of the workforce? We argue that technical progress has raised the demand for skilled labour to mach the observed increase in supply. We provide econometric evidence in support of this hypothesis, showing that skill shortages are higher for establishments that use advanced technology in the production...

Employer Perceptions of Skill Deficiencies in the UK Labour Market: A Sub-Regional Analysis

Past research on labour market skill shortages indicates that whether respondents report skill shortages or hard-to-fill vacancies do so for widely different reasons. Nevertheless, there is some consensus that skill shortages analysis needs to examine such shortages within the context of the local labour market in order to understand the labour market dynamics and structural factors that affect...

Ten strategies to build partnerships with patients.

Start - up entry strategies : Employer vs .

Casual observation points to a broad variety of internal organizations of newborn ...rms. For instance, many start-up ...rms are owned and managed by their founders who are simultaneously the employees. These belong to the category of so-called Nonemployer ...rms, according to US Bureau of Census nomenclature. The internal organization of a start-up Nonemployer, belonging to the subcategory of ...