Uneven opportunity: exploring employers' educational preferences for middle-skills jobs
To ensure more low- and moderate income families can enjoy pathways into prosperity, it is crucial to identify the economic opportunities available to non-college-educated or middle-skill workers. To this end, this report explores why employer preferences for bachelor's degrees for the most prevalent opportunity occupations vary significantly between metropolitan areas in the US. Opportunity occupations are jobs that pay more than the national median annual wage, as adjusted by local cost of living, and are generally accessible to workers without a college degree. As such, they provide essenti... Show more
Authors: Wardrip, Keith; Andreason, Stuart; De Zeeuw, Mels
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia and Atlanta, 2017
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 19 p.
Access item: https://www.frbatlanta.org/community-development/publications/partners-update/2017/01/170125-uneven-opportunity-variation-in-employers-educational-preferences-for-middle-skills-jobs.aspx
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