Reflecting their skill and education, 27 percent of Asian immigrants from major source countries get employment based green cards (for highly skilled immigrants) compared to just 8 percent of all other immigrants.
The widening pay gap between the skilled and unskilled, and the shrinking availability of well-paying mid-skill jobs underlines the importance of education and skill building in the new economy.
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The difference between men and women in the workforce has nothing to do with biological destiny and everything to do with education, skill and training.
We must learn to be comfortable in the midst of diversity, to find at least a small part of ourselves in every person we meet and to treat one another as an entirely unique and irreplaceable human being whose talents, opinions, background, education and skill we cannot guess at but must learn anew every time we stick out our hand to introduce ourselves to another.
You put your talent, education, wisdom, skill, and hard work into your joint adventure with another person.
Almost half have bachelor degree and only 5% are truly low skill workers with only an elementary education.
And incidentally, getting education or getting any skill at these online places is a wonderful way of improving yourself.
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As part of fulfilling its mission, USA Football offers education for coaches, skill development for players and resources for youth football league commissioners.
The United States has the most highly trained military in the world, comprised of men and women who have broad skill sets because of their military education and experience.
But embedding learning into life does provide an alternative way to acquire skills that is cheaper, easier to access, and in many ways complementary to existing education and job-based skill acquisition methods.
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The rising skill premium has rewarded those with lots of education, and social shifts have reinforced the income concentration.
As an example, the authors note that most high-skill jobs require only a high-school education in conjunction with on-the-job training.
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The notion that math is a male skill is a persistent mindset, from elementary education to the career paths men and women take in adulthood.
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In a 21st century economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, education is the single best bet we can make -- not just for our individual success, but for the success of the nation as a whole.
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The wealthy city-state has been working for years to become a regional education hub and enhance its citizens' skill sets to spur more innovation and to make residents more attractive as labor for multinational companies.
Davidson argues that the inability of employers to recruit skilled workers, particularly in the manufacturing industry, is not a result of a mismatch between the type of education being undertaken by students and the skill sets demanded by the current job market, but rather a function of low wages being offered by employers.
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In a global economy, where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity.
My Administration is committed to enhancing American education by raising standards, making higher education more affordable, and preparing students for high-skill jobs and civic participation.
It used to be thought that only rich countries had educated workforces able to produce skill-intensive goods, but poor countries have invested heavily in education in recent years, allowing them to start competing in more sophisticated markets.
Financial responsibility is a skill that people must be taught, and many just never received that education.
And there are direct economic consequences of high and low performing education systems, the study says, particularly in a globalised, skill-based economy.
Indeed, if Mr Bresnahan is right, economists' standard ways of categorising workers according to skill are wrong: there is more (or less) to it than education and training, narrowly defined.
For example at the entry level, workers with English skill may have been able to find a good job decades ago whereas now only the subset with more education would find a good job.
Good penmanship was a rare skill in the provinces, and Liu perfected his hand, becoming a trusted letter writer for bosses with limited education.
Adaptive learning is a method of education that seeks to personalize learning by using sophisticated algorithmic technology to continually assess students' knowledge, skill and confidence levels and design targeted study paths based on the resulting data to bolster students' understanding in the areas where they need to improve the most.
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