Commentary on the Skills Gap and Related Issues

Commentary that the Skill Gap is a Myth or Not Serious

• Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers - Peter Cappelli, June 19, 2012
• How H-1B Visas Are Screwing Tech Workers - Josh Harkinson, Feb. 22, 2013
• The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage: How Guest Workers Lower US Wages - PBS Newshour, July 24, 2013
• The Great Skills Gap Myth - Aaron M. Renn March 21, 2014
• Jobs and Skills and Zombies - Paul Krugman, March 30, 2014
• The Myth Of A ‘Skills Gap’ And Our Phony ‘Education Crisis’ - DSWright, March 31, 2014
• Why the Skills Gap 'Crisis' Is Overblown - Cait Murphy, March 31, 2014
• Is There Really a Skills Gap? - Cait Murphy, March 31, 2014
• Offshore firms took 50% of H-1B visas in 2013 - Computerworld (US), April 1, 2014
• Is There a STEM Worker Shortage? - Center for Immigration Studies, May, 2014
• Study questions need for more science, tech workers - jeff.swiatek@indystar.com, May 21, 2014
• STEM Grads Are at a Loss - Those who claim there's a STEM skills shortage are ignoring the evidence. - Hal Salzman, Sept. 15, 2014
• The Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist - Josh Eidelson, Nov. 24, 2014

Commentary that the Skill Gap Is Serious

• Silicon Valley's Push For Cheap Immigrant Workers Is Good For America - Walter Hickey, June 11, 2013
• The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America Is Losing Its High-Tech Talent - PBS Newshour, July 25, 2013

Commentary on Ageism in the Workplace

• Special Report: Silicon Valley's dirty secret - age bias - Sarah Mcbride, November 27, 2012
• The Brutal Ageism of Tech: Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete? - The New Republic, March 23, 2014