The problem is clearest in the technology industry because of the incredible shortage of qualified workers.
Indeed, anecdotal reports suggest that businesses are having difficulty recruiting well-qualified workers in a range of occupations.
It is interesting to note that many technology companies have hundreds of job openings for qualified workers.
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Yet finding jobs for these highly-qualified workers in the U.S. is almost impossible due to H-1B regulations.
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Now, because of globalization the jobs have gone to wherever qualified workers will do them for the least pay.
Again, the local vocational college has promised to churn out suitably qualified workers.
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For example, Germany's demanding and lengthy training courses mean that only a limited number of qualified workers emerge each year.
In the long run, auto executives say, a shortage of qualified workers might eventually put the brakes on Thailand's auto industry.
Healthy economies, particularly those such as Ireland's, with fast-growing high-technology industries, have outstripped the local markets' ability to furnish qualified workers.
The Maltese have created a special course for aircraft technicians at a local college to ensure a steady supply of qualified workers.
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In that case, one might expect retention rates to fall for those with short tenure, because less-qualified workers often flit between jobs.
As its population declines and ages, the nation badly needs qualified workers to fuel economic growth and support its pension and health-care systems.
The Fed also pointed to signs of structural unemployment, noting labor shortages for qualified workers with specific skills, particularly in the energy and IT sector.
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In a February 1998 survey of information-technology companies by the Minnesota Department of Economic Security, 57% of respondents said they were having trouble finding qualified workers.
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When that is combined with a graying workforce and a need to invest in modern infrastructure and technologies, job opportunities for qualified workers will only get better.
Our high-tech companies are suffering growing shortages of qualified workers.
This is true for our businesses when, according to one study, six in 10 simply cannot find the qualified workers that they need, are ready and willing to hire.
The TVA, meanwhile, had approached schools in its southeastern region and had explained that the nuclear sector would need qualified workers to replace those retiring and to occupy newly-created positions.
Some places, like Paris, have such high unemployment and deep pools of qualified workers that you'd have trouble standing out as an American looking to get hired by an American company.
Legislation to ease immigration, especially of the highly qualified workers that Germany lacks, has passed the lower house of parliament, although it may yet be blocked by conservatives in the upper house.
He responded that a Chinese competitor of his bought two machines from him with that idea in mind but had to shut both down within six months because he lacked the qualified workers to operate them.
To get as far as a jury trial, your wife would need to show evidence that her former bosses had discriminatory motives such as any remarks they made to her or others about her pregnancy, or the fact they bypassed laying off less-productive or -qualified workers in order to target her, he says.
That means qualified care workers called to the person's house to bathe, feed or provide medication.
An interesting and noticeable shift is occurring in the Chinese workforce, driven by business demand and the growing need for qualified knowledge workers.
Kim Bromley-Derry, president of the Association of Children's Services, said the scheme must not take qualified social workers away from the front line.
Some employers say there might not be enough qualified disabled workers in their fields to meet that target and that they may have to fire nondisabled workers to achieve the ratio.
"The program was never meant to replace qualified American workers, but it was instead intended as a means to fill gaps in highly specialized areas of employment, " he said in a statement.
After Sept. 11, the number of H-1B visas, which allow highly qualified foreign workers to remain in the United States for up to six years, was reduced from 195, 000 to 65, 000 per year, because of security concerns.
But their skills are not as rare as they were in the early 1980s, when the discipline took off, and graduates today must contend with competition from hundreds of thousands of similarly qualified foreign workers in the U.S. or overseas.
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