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- Title
A MEASUREMENT OF DEMAND FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.
- Authors
Richardson, V. A.
- Abstract
This paper is concerned with the extent to which the model of a competitive labour market may be held to be relevant in a consideration of the demand and supply of highly specialized manpower, such as professional engineers and scientists. It is striking that up to the present time the Government Appointed Committee on Manpower Resources for Science and Technology, in all its wide ranging discussions, and recommendations for an increased supply of scientific manpower, have hardly examined the workings of the labour market for this type of manpower in Britain. The alleged ‘shortage’ of scientists and engineers, we are told almost daily by some distinguished figure from the academic or professional engineering world, will lead to all sorts of dire consequences. The available statistical data on the relative earnings of engineers will be examined and in the light of this some of the findings of the Committee on Manpower Resources for Science and Technology will be briefly assessed.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LABOR market; LABOR supply; ENGINEERS; SCIENTISTS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT
- Publication
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1969, Vol 7, Issue 1, p52
- ISSN
0007-1080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8543.1969.tb00661.x