The Huffington Post – Amy Rosen
“This week, I’m attending The Future of Work Conference being held in London sponsored by The WorldPost. One panel I am on is “Mind the Skills Gap.” Discussions about the skills gap have usually included questions such as “How serious is it?” and “What can we do about it?” and “How can we get our schools and employers to work better together?” But now more serious questions are being raised — questions about whether the skills gap exists at all. Less than a year ago, New York Times columnist and economic heavyweight Paul Krugman wrote that it does not. He called it a skills myth. And he said it again just last week. And while I’m hesitant to disagree with someone as well-versed and well placed as Krugman, there’s really little debate that we have a skills gap — or maybe, better said, an employment gap.”(more)