Since the late 1950s, the engineering job market in the United States has been fraught with fears of a shortage of engineering skill and talent. U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy brings clarity to issues of supply and demand in this important market. Following a general overview of...

In the 1980s and 1990s successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors. Today, the United Kingdom is one of the least regulated economies in the...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1. The Economic Theory of Occupational Choice -- 2. Models of the Labor and Education Markets -- 3. Developments in the Market for Highly Specialized Workers after World War II -- 4. The Cobweb Pattern: the...