Need for More High School Dropouts

Beliavsky
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:20:18 +0000

The types of jobs that exist depend in part on who is available to fill them. India has more people working in call centers for Western companies than China does because India has more people who are fluent in English. The supply of such people (and cheap telecommunications) effectively created the jobs.

The same thing occurs in the U.S. Massachusetts has different types of jobs than Arkansas, because its labor force has different skills. If the U.S. produced more engineers than it did now, more jobs for engineers would be created, although maybe not enough to absorb the supply.