Falling Behind? (eBook)

Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent

Michael S. Teitelbaum (Autor)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5014-3 (ISBN)

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Michael S. Teitelbaum is a Wertheim Fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and senior advisor to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York. Until 2011 he was vice president of the Sloan Foundation. His previous books include The Global Spread of Fertility Decline, A Question of Numbers, The Fear of Population Decline, and The British Fertility Decline.

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How the fear of a shortage in American science talent fuels cycles in the technical labor marketIs the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are U.S. employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a globalized world? Such claims from some employers and educators have been widely embraced by mainstream media and political leaders, and have figured prominently in recent policy debates about education, federal expenditures, tax policy, and immigration. Falling Behind? offers careful examinations of the existing evidence and of its use by those involved in these debates.These concerns are by no means a recent phenomenon. Examining historical precedent, Michael Teitelbaum highlights five episodes of alarm about "e;falling behind"e; that go back nearly seventy years to the end of World War II. In each of these episodes the political system responded by rapidly expanding the supply of scientists and engineers, but only a few years later political enthusiasm or economic demand waned. Booms turned to busts, leaving many of those who had been encouraged to pursue science and engineering careers facing disheartening career prospects. Their experiences deterred younger and equally talented students from following in their footsteps-thereby sowing the seeds of the next cycle of alarm, boom, and bust.Falling Behind? examines these repeated cycles up to the present, shedding new light on the adequacy of the science and engineering workforce for the current and future needs of the United States.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 16 line illus. 6 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: academic degree • advanced • Advocacy • Airspace • America COMPETES Act • American Immigration Lawyers Association • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 • Association of American Universities • Bachelor's degree • Budget • Bureau of Labor Statistics • Calculation • Career • chairman • Chief Executive Officer • Competition • competitiveness • Council on Competitiveness • Criticism • developed country • Disease • Doctor of Philosophy • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economics • economist • Education • Elaine Bernard • Employment • engineer • Engineering • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • Freeman (Colonial) • Funding • Funding of science • Globalization • government agency • Graduate school • H-1B visa • higher education • Higher education in the United States • High Tech • Human Capital • Immigration Policy • income • Inflation • Information Technology Association of America • Institution • Intel • international geophysical year • Jack Abramoff • Legislation • lobbying • mainstream media • master's degree • Microsoft • missile gap • National Association of Manufacturers • National Institutes of Health • National Science Board • National Science Foundation • national security • of education • Offshore Outsourcing • opportunity cost • percentage • Politician • Postdoctoral researcher • Princeton University Press • private sector • Project • Public Policy • Quantity • Recruitment • Remuneration • Requirement • Research and Development • salary • Scientist • Shanghai Jiao Tong University • shortage • Social Science • Sputnik 1 • stipend • Subsidy • Superiority (short story) • Supply and Demand • Supply (economics) • Technology • Telecommunication • Trade association • undergraduate education • Unemployment • University • Vannevar Bush • Venture Capital • Wernher von Braun • Workforce • World War II • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5014-2 / 1400850142
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5014-3 / 9781400850143