[CTPP] educational attainment by place of work

We are trying to understand the relationship between the location of well-paying jobs and resident income. In particular, our urban core has the largest concentration of job, a large fraction of which are well-paid, while surrounding the job centers are areas that have high concentration of poverty, especially minority poverty. We suspect this has something to do with a skills mismatch between the jobs and the residents, which we can test for those who are employed by looking at occupation of workers vs occupation of residents. But if we wanted to expand our examination of the skill mismatch to the unemployed by looking at, say, educational attainment of the residents vs. the workers, we find we cannot because there is no data on educational attainment by place of work in the 2000 CTPP. Might this be remedied in the 2010 CTPP? Frank Lenk Director of Research Services Mid-America Regional Council 600 Broadway, Suite 200 Kansas City, MO 64105 www.marc.org 816.474.4240 flenk(a)marc.org 816.701.8237