The Wall St. Journal, 7/15/2013 has a story with the following headline and opening paragraphs.
> Amid Falling Enrollment, Law Schools Are Cutting Faculty > Law schools across the country are shedding faculty members as enrollment > plunges, sending a grim message to an elite group long sheltered from the ups > and downs of the broader economy. > > Having trimmed staff, some schools are offering buyouts and early-retirement > packages to senior, tenured professors and canceling contracts with > lower-level instructors, who have less job protection. Most do so quietly. > But the trend is growing, most noticeably among middle- and lower-tier > schools, which have been hit hardest by the drop-off. Wait, is this just declining enrollment or technological unemployment? Computer programs that can review documents had notoriously cut employment of lawyers and lowered pay scales. That's technological unemployment. Of course the Great Recession also cut ordinary demand for lawyers, which is just ordinary unemployment. And the secondary effect is of the combined impact of those two is the loss of jobs at law schools. We don't think of (some of) that as technological unemployment but ... . Gene _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
