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The study prepared by the San Diego Workforce Partnership outlines a strategic plan for the workforce development for the Bioscience industry cluster in the San Diego Region. The plan was designed to address three questions. Each question is answered in great detail in the report with specific suggestions for each.

The report released last week by the Business-Higher Education Forum suggests the nation faces social and economic crisis unless America succeeds in promoting and taking advantage of racial and ethnic diversity. The report further calls on business and institutional leaders, policy makers and the general public to become actively involved in promoting and expanding diversity efforts

The San Diego Workforce Partnerships report consists of four strategic plans as a blueprint to prepare San Diegos workforce to compete in the changing global economy. Initiated as part of a broader Regional Workforce Development Strategic Planning Initiative, the plans reflect the concerns of area businesses for developing and maintaining skilled workers.

The Womens Experiences in College Engineering Project study reveals female engineering students are most encouraged by a support network of peers, faculty and advisors, when it comes to pursuing a degree in their field. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the study results suggest efforts to improve female students self-confidence and to strengthen the schools support climate positively affect whether women persist in obtaining engineering degrees and entering the workforce as engineers.

AEAs sixth annual survey of employment in the electronics and information technology sectors revealed 20 states experienced more information technology (IT) job losses than creations in 2001. Texas led the way with more than 3,000 job losses while South Dakota experienced the greatest percentage loss of its IT workforce at 14 percent.

The National Governors Association guide argues that developing new workforce policies to address the shortage of skilled workers in the U.S. is critical to the success of the nation in the 21st century.

The report proposes a new business-led Connecticut Digital Compact to oversee most of the plan’s implementation in order to ensure the information technology efforts remain focused on meeting current and future industry needs.

The authors examine technologys effect on earnings and income inequality by using interstate differences in technology. Their analysis, using data from the 1979-94 period, shows that workers earn a wage premium in high-technology states.

The paper explores two related effects of computers on older workers, who tend to use computers less than younger workers. Instrumental variables estimates suggest that computer use directly lowers the probability of retirement.

From the Monthly Labor Review, the article projects industry output and employment for the first decade of the 21st century. Computer and data processing services continues to top the chart of fastest growing industries with an average annual rate of 6.4 percent growth for 2000-2010. Projected output for the field is expected to grow by an annual rate of 8 percent.