Employer-led Training in the U.S.: Should, Can Public Policies Encourage More?

These slides are from a presentation given by Robert Lerman at the Symposium on the Supply Chain for Middle-Skill Jobs. The presentation includes questions and topics such as Is the U.S. falling short on skills, Investing in people has come to mean largely raising educational attainment and test scores, Narrow view of human capital in U.S., What about employer training, and more.  Lerman wrote a related paper titled Are Employers Providing Enough Training: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications. This paper is available to view separately.