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Michigan’s Lack Of Jobs In High-wage Occupations

Michigan’s lack of jobs in high-wage occupations

  • January 6, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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Terrific op ed in Crain's Detroit Business by Glenn Stevens Jr., executive director of MICHauto and Britany Affolter-Caine, executive director of Michigan’s University Research Corridor. They write: The most successful strategy to ensure Michigan's long-term competitiveness and economic prosperity is…

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The Paucity Of High-paid Blue Collar Manufacturing Jobs

The paucity of high-paid blue collar manufacturing jobs

  • December 21, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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In a 2012 post entitled Low pay driving job vacancies I posited that the reason manufacturers had a shortage of skilled trades workers was low pay, not a skills shortage. That post featured a New York Times Magazine article by…

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How Much Workers Made In The Pandemic Labor Market

How much workers made in the pandemic labor market

  • November 30, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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We have explored frequently that those with a four-year degree or more over a forty-year career work more and earn more than those with less education attainment. One of the reasons being that those with a B.A. or more tend…

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Where Young Professionals Develop Essential Skills

Where young professionals develop essential skills

  • August 19, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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In our last post we looked at the skills business-led KC Rising describes as essential to career success: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, interpersonal skills, proactivity and executive function. In this post we want to look at where metro Kansas City…

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21st Century Career Success Essential Skills

21st Century career success essential skills

  • August 12, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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The business-led metro Kansas City regional prosperity organization KC Rising recently published a terrific report defining what are the essential skills all students need for career success. Their definition: Communication – The ability to adapt within various channels, to connect…

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Michigan’s Top Ten Upper Middle Class Occupations

Michigan’s top ten upper middle class occupations

  • August 5, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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This post answers the question "What are Michigan's top ten upper middle class occupations?" Where we define upper middle class as jobs that pay at least $70,539. Our calculation of what it takes to be upper middle class for a…

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STEM Doesn’t Dominate Michigan Middle Class Jobs

STEM doesn’t dominate Michigan middle class jobs

  • July 29, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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This post updates our analysis of the proportion of good-paying Michigan jobs that are in STEM fields. This time using our middle class jobs for a three person household threshold. Where we define middle class as payroll jobs than pay…

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How Much Workers Make In A Two-tier Labor Market

How much workers make in a two-tier labor market

  • June 8, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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In a previous post we detailed that Michigan has a two-tier labor market. One for those with a B.A. or more and the other for those without a B.A. The B.A. labor market is dominated by jobs that pay middle…

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Michigan Has A Two-tier Labor Market

Michigan has a two-tier labor market

  • May 25, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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Michigan's two-tier economy exists in large part because Michigan has a two-tier labor market. Michigan's high ALICE rate––38 percent in the strong 2019 economy––exists in large part because Michigan has a two-tier labor market. The reality is that in both…

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A Two-tier Economy In Pictures

A two-tier economy in pictures

  • May 14, 2021
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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At Michigan Future we are always working to understand the reality of the economy and labor market in Michigan. We try to get beyond the assumptions and the holdover picture we have of how people earn money, and how much…

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