Falling Behind? - Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent

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About the author

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.

Summary

Is the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are US employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need to compete in a globalized world? This book offers careful examinations of the existing evidence and of its use by those involved in these debates.

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"Despite policy differences that readers may have with Teitelbaum, the concerns he raises about booms and busts in the scientific workforce (due in large part to failures of public policy) should command broad interest."---Daniel Kuehn, Cato Journal

Product details

• Authors: Michael S. Teitelbaum, Teitelbaum Michael S.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2014
• EAN: 9780691154664
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15466-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; USA, SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, United States of America, USA, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Scientific research, Science Funding & Policy, Science funding and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher