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The Jungle of Skills Mismatch

2020
In the knowledge economy there is an increased focus on skills. Moreover, rapidly changing developments and growing skills shortages are generating considerable political and socio-economic tensions. The workers with the greatest potential value on the labor market seem to be the high-skilled workers, with strong digital and technological skills and ...
Ingrid Kofler, Elisa Innerhofer, Anja Marcher, Mirjam Gruber, Harald Pechlaner   +4 more
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Qualifications mismatch and skills mismatch

Education + Training, 2012
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to estimate the extent of “over‐qualification” (i.e. holding a qualification which is above that required to gain entry to the job being done) and “skills under‐utilisation” (i.e. being in a job which does not make use of the knowledge and skills possessed) in the United Kingdom and to examine whether these ...
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The New Skills Mismatch?

Journal of Social Service Research, 1999
Previous research has revealed the existence of a mismatch between the skills in demand in the urban labor market and the skill levels of large numbers of the urban poor. Numerous public job training efforts have been initiated to ameliorate this problem.
Lundgren, Lena, Cohen, Iris
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The Economic Implications of Skill Mismatch in China’s Labor Market: A Focus on Higher Education Graduates

Law and Economy
Skill mismatch in China’s labor market has become a growing concern, particularly for higher education graduates. This paper explores the economic implications of skill mismatches, focusing on sectors such as high-tech and manufacturing, which are vital ...
Tianqin Shi
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Skill mismatch and unemployment

Economics Letters, 2000
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Thisse, J.-F., Zenou, Y.
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Skills Mismatch and Policy Response

Policy & Politics, 1990
Skills shortages and skills mismatch in Britain have intensified recently. Explanations for these problems from central government have tended to be only partial. Some of the basic tenets of offical explanations are subject to closer scrutiny, especially the notion of a demographic time-bomb. An alternative analytical framework is outlined.
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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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Overeducation and Skill Mismatch

Sociology of Education, 1994
Past research has operationalized the notions of overeducation, overtraining, occupational mismatch, and the like in terms of the deviation of a worker's attained schooling from the estimated mean or required schooling of the worker's ...
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Skills and education mismatch

2018
This chapter addresses three key aspects of young people's lives: the nature of human capital development in third-level institutions; transitions from education to work; and the relative exposure to employment mismatch and separation in employment. Young people are more likely to become unemployed but are also more likely to move from unemployment to ...
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Underemployment of skilled self-initiated expatriates – a skill mismatch or categorisation?

, 2020
Despite excellent education and a rich working experience in their home countries, skilled expatriates struggle to find employment that matches their qualifications.
Agnieszka Chwialkowska
semanticscholar   +1 more source