Projecting Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in US States and Metro Areas

James Orr & Ofronama Biu — 2017-10-10T12:34:48Z

Analysts have long noted difficulties in quantifying and projecting skill mismatches in local labor markets. Workforce development providers and community colleges have led the way in responding to this challenge, particularly when it comes to middle-skill jobs, or jobs that require more than a high-school diploma but less than a bachelor's degree. In this article, James Orr and Ofronama Biu probe the methodologies local practitioners use to define middle-skill occupations and to understand the

- From the Field / United States, employment, work, methodology, metropolitan areas, education, training, university, workforce, middle-skill occupations, jobs, qualifications, community college, labor markets

Urban Ethnography: A Handbook

Daniel Cefaï & translated by Oliver Waine — 2013-04-03T11:51:49Z

Since the 1980s, the field of ethnography has enjoyed a return to favour in the social sciences. Richard E. Ocejo's recent work – the first collection of texts to deal specifically with the city and urban ethnography – offers a valuable introduction to the classics of the genre. It also highlights the efforts that are called for by an approach that is still all too often considered “easy access”.
This work begins with a scene that takes place in Milano's Bar, one of the “little social worlds”

- Reviews / United States, ethnography, methodology, fieldwork

Metropolitics

Projecting Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in US States and Metro Areas

Urban Ethnography: A Handbook