Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by...

In this paper I discuss a structural problem facing the United States with respect to our policy responses in the context of trade and technological change and their impact on workers. Both trade and technological change have put enormous pressure on the U.S. economy to raise the skill level of...

Vulnerable youth : employment and job training programs / Adrienne L. Fernandes -- Vulnerable youth : issues in the reauthorization of the workforce investment act / Adrienne L. Fernandes -- Vulnerable youth : federal funding for summer job training and employment / Adrienne L. Fernandes --...