Impact of Defense Spending on Nondefense Engineering Labor Markets. A Report to the National Academy of Engineering

摘要

The study investigates the impact of large increases and decreases in government defense spending on the availability of engineering personnel for the nondefense, commercial sector. The report presents evidence about past and current experience; it describes the limitations in our ability to anticipate the future and cautions against reliance on events of the past or present in predicting future engineering supply and demand.