Georgia
Skills mismatch problems in the labour market have been widely recognized by both current literature and policymakers. Skills mismatch indicators inform policies to improve the matching between labour demand and labour supply, making labour markets more efficient and reducing the wage penalties due to over-education or other types of mismatches. The skills mismatch indicators have been measured, so far, only for a limited number of the European Training Foundation (ETF) partner countries and they are not always comparable. This report provides an update and an extension of the work which has already been done to measure skills mismatch in ETF partner countries. The analysis following the choice and the construction of skills mismatch indicators provides a timely overview of this labour market issue which will be important for governments, stakeholders, and other stakeholders to shape future labour market policies.
Georgia’s workforce development (WfD) system,
conducted based on the World Bank’s Systems
Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) WfD
analytical framework and tool. The focus is on policies,
institutions, and practices in three important functional
dimensions of policy making and implementation—
strategic framework, system oversight, and service
delivery.1 The findings suggest that the main focus in
Georgia is shifting from policy conceptualization to
implementation. Many of the gaps identified share
common root causes, implying that addressing a
selected gap may lead to progress on related fronts.