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Disability and Skill Mismatch [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer ...
Jones, Melanie K., Sloane, Peter J.
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Mismatched, but Not Aware of It? How Subjective and Objective Skill Mismatch Affects Employee Job Satisfaction

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Several studies suggest that skill mismatch reduces job satisfaction. To date, research has primarily investigated the impact of subjective skill mismatch; the impact of objective skill mismatch has less commonly been analysed and has generally only ...
Stephan Bischof
doaj   +3 more sources

Trends in Educational and Skill Mismatch in the United States

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
We examined trends in the incidence and correlates of educational and skill mismatch in the United States. We focused on trends over time in the associations between various types of mismatch and a range of factors including contextual conditions.
Dong-Hoon Shin, David Bills
doaj   +3 more sources

Skill Mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries.
Matano, Alessia   +2 more
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Multidimensional Skill Mismatch [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015
What determines the earnings of a worker relative to his peers in the same occupation? What makes a worker fail in one occupation but succeed in another? More broadly, what are the factors that determine the productivity of a worker-occupation match? To help answer questions like these, we propose an empirical measure of multidimensional skill mismatch
Fatih Guvenen   +3 more
openaire   +8 more sources

Urban employment in post-transition economies: skill mismatch in the local labor market [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu, 2022
The paper explores the mismatch between the skills and qualifications required by the labour market and those acquired through education and on-the-job learning. The skill mismatch in transition economies tends to be even more pronounced as the labour
Jelena J. Stanković   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mismatch unemployment in Austria: the role of regional labour markets for skills

open access: yesRegional Studies, Regional Science, 2022
Over the past decade, the Beveridge curve in the Austrian labour market has shifted significantly outward. Using detailed administrative data on job vacancies and registered unemployed persons by region and skill level, we investigate which factors have ...
René Böheim, Michael Christl
doaj   +1 more source

Skill Mismatch, Nepotism, Job Satisfaction, and Young Females in the MENA Region

open access: yesEconometrics, 2023
Skills utilization is an important factor affecting labor productivity and job satisfaction. This paper examines the effects of skills mismatch, nepotism, and gender discrimination on wages and job satisfaction in MENA workplaces.
Mahmoud Arayssi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are science students missing in South America? Productivity and the labor market say yes

open access: yesRevista de Economía Mundial, 2022
During 2002–2011, inequality in South American decreased substantially, in large part because the wage gap between unskilled and skilled professionals narrowed.
Susana Herrero Olarte
doaj   +1 more source

How Can Skill Mismatch be Measured? New Approaches with PIAAC

open access: yesMethoden, Daten, Analysen, 2014
Measuring skill mismatch is problematic, because objective data on an individual skill level are often not available. Recently published data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies(PIAAC) provide a unique opportunity for ...
Anja Perry   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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