skills shortage

plural skills shortages

1. A lack of specialized workforce.

   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.

   2014 March 31, Paul Krugman, “Jobs and Skills and Zombies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   1 more example

   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.

   2008 November 1, “South African emigration leads to skills shortage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN