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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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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.   +7 more
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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   +2 more
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IT skill retention

Information Management & Computer Security, 1999
There are very few businesses now for which information technology is not an integral element. Any forward‐looking business with a desire to stay competitive must avail itself of highly competent and reliable IT. Skilled IT workers have many options because they are in high demand and short supply.
Valerie Mosley, Margaret A. Hurley
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A case of information skills: re‐skilling or de‐skilling?

Cambridge Journal of Education, 1985
(1985). A case of information skills: re‐skilling or de‐skilling? Cambridge Journal of Education: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 81-87.
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Rhetorics of Skill and Skillful Rhetorics

American Anthropologist, 1992
boats on the shrimping grounds that "it looks like a city." They talk even more about technological characteristics of boats, engines, and nets, and behaviors of shrimp. Their discourse is complex, subtle, often aspectually varied and complementary, and sometimes even contradictory, but it encodes concepts of production that must be directly tested ...
Gísli Pálsson, E. Paul Durrenberger
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Skill and Skilled Memory

1990
Abstract : This report summarizes the findings of two longitudinal studies of expert-level cognitive skills and their acquisition. Their empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions are described and some practical implications of this work are discussed.
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SKILLS AND COGNITIVE SKILLS

Scientific Works
This article discusses human skills. Skills are interpreted as actions that a person performs to acquire motor or intellectual abilities, carrying out those actions in the appropriate manner. It is shown that, alongside new skills, new knowledge and habits also emerge during the process of activity.
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Migrating skills, skilled migrants and migration skills: The influence of contexts on the validation of migrants’ skills

Migration Letters, 2014
Notions of skill are geographically and historically specific; migration regimes, professional regulations and national policies influence possibilities of effective validation of migrant knowledge abroad. Migration scholars convincingly demonstrate how migrants actively circumvent national requirements to fit into the dominant culture of the society ...
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Skill in sport.

Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie, 1985
Sport skill is analyzed from an "expert" perspective. Data are presented to illustrate similar chunking and categorizing performance for sport experts to that found for experts in traditional cognitive skills. Extending the analysis to the acquisition of motor skill again suggests a parallel between sport and cognitive skill; that is, that motor skills
ALLARD, F, BURNETT, N
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