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Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages, and Skill Mismatches

ILR Review, 2015
Concerns over the supply of skills in the U.S. labor force, especially education-related skills, have exploded in recent years with a series of reports not only from employer-associated organizations but also from independent and even government sources making similar claims.
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Skill or Be Skilled

CFA Institute Magazine, 2014
If you are an active equity manager, it’s time for a deep look in the mirror. Your industry, your business, and your livelihood are in jeopardy. The reason is obvious: Investors are no longer willing to pay more for active management, only to receive passive performance or less.
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Skills, Management of Skills, and IT Skills Requirements

2011
Information technology (IT) skill shortages appear at the market level occasionally—usually for emerging technologies, unanticipated challenges, and/or unresolved issues such as systems security. Even when a market-level skill shortage does not exist, a firm can still suffer from skill shortages for its critical information system (IS) project and/or ...
Makoto Nakayama, Norma Sutcliffe
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The Skills of COMMUNICATION

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1963
WE HEAR A GREAT deal today in nursing about the importance of establishing therapeutic relationships with patients. If we are to teach students to do this, however, we must do more than simply present them with a "blueprint" for relating. The skills needed for effective relationships with others-like all skills in nursing-need to be based on concepts ...
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SKILL: A System for Skill Identification and Normalization

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015
Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Named Entity Normalization (NEN) refer to the recognition and normalization of raw texts to known entities. From the perspective of recruitment innovation, professional skill characterization and normalization render human capital data more meaningful both commercially and socially. Accurate and detailed normalization
Meng Zhao, Faizan Javed, Ferosh Jacob, Matt McNair   +3 more
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Clinical Skills Training in a Skills Lab Compared with Skills Training in Internships: Comparison of Skills Development Curricula

Education for Health, 2007
The necessity of learning skills through "integrated skills training" at an undergraduate level has been supported by several studies. The University of Antwerp implemented undergraduate skills training in its renewed curriculum in 1998, after it was demonstrated that Flemish students did not master their medical skills as well as Dutch students who ...
Peeraer, G., Scherpbier, A.J.J.A., Remmen, R., De Winter, B.Y., Hendrickx, K., Van Petegem, P., Weyler, J., Bossaert, L.   +7 more
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Cities and Skills [PDF]

Journal of Labor Economics, 2001
Workers in cities earn 33% more than their nonurban counterparts. A large amount of evidence suggests that this premium is not just the result of higher ability workers living in cities, which means that cities make workers more productive. Evidence on migrants and the cross effect between urban status and experience implies that a significant fraction
Edward L. Glaeser, David C. Mare
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Measuring Skills Stock, Job Skills, and Skills Mismatch

2017
This chapter critically appraises the different types of international and national skills data currently available in terms of the underlying concepts of skill and the collection techniques used. It focuses on three ways of measuring skills using surveys. The first measures the skills held by a given group of individuals -- the skills stock.
Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, Francis Green   +2 more
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