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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