Skill shortages, demographic aging, and training implications for skill-based economies

Professional Geographer

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-69

  Smith, Helen Lawton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age profile; Oxfordshire; Technicians

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; ENGINEERING; LABOR MARKET; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SKILLED LABOR; TRAINING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; OXFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 65249182224     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330120802577715     Document Type: Article

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