Catalog · Workforce & Labor Markets

Construction & Skilled Trades Labor

What’s inside

1. Module 1

   The Trades That Build and Run Everything

   • The Anatomy of the Skilled-Trades Workforce · 3 min · narrated
   • Reading a Tight Labor Market Before the Wage Data Does · 3 min · narrated
   • Module review

2. Module 2

   Why the Pipeline Fills So Slowly

   • The Apprenticeship Lag and the Vertical Supply Curve · 3 min · narrated
   • Demographics, Retirement, and the Loss of Embedded Knowledge · 3 min · narrated
   • Module review

3. Module 3

   Labor as a Siting Decision and a Reallocation Game

   • Regional Labor Depth as a First-Order Siting Advantage · 3 min · narrated
   • Capital Reallocates the Workforce: Wages, Unions, and the Auction · 4 min · narrated
   • Module review

4. Module 4

   Building More With the Workers Who Exist

   • Offsite Construction as a Labor-Productivity Strategy · 4 min · narrated
   • The Limits: Utilization, Standardization, Logistics, and Interface Risk · 4 min · narrated
   • Module review