IT workers shortage: implications for educational policy.
This article examines the information technology (IT) worker shortage by comparing the rate of salary increase for IT workers from 1995 to 1998 to the rate of inflation for those same years. Findings show that the median salary for IT workers has increased at twice the rate of inflation. Universitie...
| Published in: | Policy Studies Review Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 167 - 192 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aut 2001
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