{"id":12850,"date":"2012-12-11T17:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2013-02-08T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T19:51:41","slug":"young-people-get-larger-share-of-new-hires-in-n-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/12\/11\/young-people-get-larger-share-of-new-hires-in-n-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Young People Get Larger Share Of New Hires In N.H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, people ages 22-24 made up only 5.2 percent of New Hampshire&#8217;s workforce, but 11.7 percent of the state&#8217;s new hires. Those between ages 25 and 34 made up 22.4 percent of new hires &#8212; a share 4.2 percent larger than their share in the existing workforce. \u00a0This, writes Brian Gottlob on his blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/briangottlob.com\/2012\/12\/10\/hiring-by-age-more-evidence-of-a-skills-gap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trend Lines<\/a>, could mean any number of things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It could be evidence of a &#8220;skills gap,&#8221; in that older employees aren&#8217;t trained to do what today&#8217;s businesses need.<\/li>\n<li>It could be that companies are hiring young people in greater numbers because they are cheaper when it comes to both salaries and benefits.<\/li>\n<li>It could be that the kinds of businesses that are growing have a particular demand for younger workers (perhaps Gottlob is thinking of New Hampshire&#8217;s growing tech sector).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, people ages 22-24 made up only 5.2 percent of New Hampshire&#8217;s workforce, but 11.7 percent of the state&#8217;s new hires. Those between ages 25 and 34 made up 22.4 percent of new hires &#8212; a share 4.2 percent larger than their share in the existing workforce. \u00a0This, writes Brian Gottlob on his blog\u00a0Trend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,473,14],"tags":[435,186,454,364],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13314,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions\/13314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}