Background Papers for the Workshop on Research Evidence related to Future Skill Demands

Bureau of Labor Statistics projections to 2014 (Monthly Labor Review, November 2005)

The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market, by David Autor, Lawrence Katz, and Melissa Kearney

(NBER Working Paper No. 11986, Issued in January 2006, JEL No. J3)

Deciphering Prometheus: Temporal Change in the Skill Level of Work, by Kenneth I. Spenner (American Sociological Review 1983, Vol. 48 (pp. 824-837)

Reshaping the American Workforce (Introduction), in Reshaping the American Workforce in a Changing Economy, edited by Harry J. Holzer and Demetra Smith Nightingale, (Urban Institute Press, 2007)