Briefing note: Skill mismatch in Europe
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Anticipating and matching skills needs
Anticipating and building skills for the future is essential to a rapidly changing labour market. This applies to changes in the types and levels of skills needed as well as in occupational and technical areas. Effective methods to anticipate future skills needs and avoid potential mismatches include: sustained dialogue between employers and trainers, coordination across government institutions, labour market information systems, employment services and performance reviews of training institutions.
Research papers
Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.
The briefing note provides an overview of Europe’s skill challenge and argues that the information revolution is gradually dispensing with many jobs that had seemed to be a permanent fixture of societies, while the jobs it generates need an ever-widening skill base. Consequently, it is becoming more difficult to find the right people for the right jobs with skill-intensive economic and technological change making the issue of skill mismatch even more prominent.
The publication explores different types of skill mismatch, groups of workers affected by it, causes of skill mismatch and ways of tackling this issue.
Skills anticipation
Skills mismatch
Europe and Central Asia
