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Title: Labor Market Trends in Wisconsin

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Wisconsin is expected to experience positive job growth through 2022, but will the state have workers to fill these jobs? Challenges include the retirement of baby boomers, migration patterns that do not favor Wisconsin, as well as skill and geographic mismatches between available workers and available jobs. The state has a unique opportunity to meet these challenges by leveraging evidence-based policy options such as using data to better align education and workforce training programs with employers’ needs, providing more practical experiences to students who will be future workers, accelerating the preparation of low-skilled workers to meet current demand, and finding ways to engage and support the chronically unemployed. Policymakers might also consider proactively shaping the future labor market by encouraging entrepreneurship and the growth of high-skilled jobs, facilitating community efforts to attract residents, and strengthening policies that support working families.

Url: http://wisfamilyimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/FIS36-Tessa-Conroy.pdf

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Authors: Conroy, Tessa

Publisher: Wisconsin Family Impact Seminars

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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