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The Skills Gap
What employers actually need, why the shortage persists, and the difference between a training problem and a wage problem.
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What Pay Signals
Employers benchmark against their own history and conclude the labour market has become unreasonable. The rate a person can actually earn is a fact about the world rather than an opinion about them.
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Whether It Is a Skills Problem
Employers describe a shortage of trained people. Some of it is that. Some of it is a wage problem, a location problem, or a retention problem wearing a training costume, and the four require…