skills shortage

English

Noun

skills shortage (plural skills shortages)

1. A lack of specialized workforce.
   • 2008 November 1, “South African emigration leads to skills shortage”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Her decision reflects what seems to be an accelerating trend here. Professionals, often young and in middle management but increasingly also senior executives, are leaving, adding to a skills shortage that is already acute.

   • 2014 March 31, Paul Krugman, “Jobs and Skills and Zombies”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Think about what we would expect to find if there really were a skills shortage. Above all, we should see workers with the right skills doing well, while only those without those skills are doing badly. We don’t.