ERIC Number: ED533706
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jun
Pages: 20
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Healthcare. Executive Summary
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Smith, Nicole; Gulish, Artem; Beach, Bennett H.
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
This executive summary highlights several findings about healthcare. These are: (1) Healthcare is 18 percent of the U.S. economy, twice as high as in other countries; (2) There are two labor markets in healthcare: high-skill, high-wage professional and technical jobs and low-skill, low-wage support jobs; (3) Demand for postsecondary education in healthcare professional and technical occupations is third to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and education; (4) Upskilling in nursing is growing especially fast; (5) Healthcare skills are concentrated in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, but healthcare poaches STEM talent from other high-skill occupations because of high wages and different work values; (6) Despite STEM skill sets, healthcare workers tend to value "relationship: and "support" in the workplace and have "social" work interests; (7) Healthcare is predominantly female, yet women still make less than men; (8) Healthcare has largest proportion of foreign-born and foreign-trained workers in the country; (9) The healthcare workforce is growing in ethnic diversity; (10) Physicians and other doctors are the highest income earners in the country, and doctors tend to come from the most affluent families; and (11) Obesity continues to be a concern. (Contains 5 tables, 10 figures and 9 footnotes.) [For the main report, "Healthcare," see ED533705. For "Healthcare. State Report," see ED533707.]
Descriptors: Labor Market, Allied Health Personnel, Economic Factors, Employment Level, Postsecondary Education, Job Skills, Nursing Education, Nurses, Immigrants, Minority Groups, Physicians, Obesity, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Salaries, Gender Bias, Wages, Productivity, Supply and Demand, Educational Attainment, Graduate Study, Bachelors Degrees
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Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce
Identifiers - Location: United States
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