The conventional wisdom that there is a growing gap between the skills U.S. workers possess and the skills employers need is at best questionable and may even be false, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The study’s author, Michael Handel, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows the skills of American workers are not as weak nor job requirements changing as rapidly as published accounts suggest. For copies of the study, Worker Skills and Job Requirements, visit
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/book_worker_skills .
From: Work in Progress
