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The education system has reacted slowly to changes in labour market needs, leading to an increasing number of school leavers without sufficient qualification. In addition, declining PISA scores and a rising share of low achievers are raising concerns about the quality of the future labour force....
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the Czech labour market. The higher share of tertiary education graduates has increased the supply of skills … youth unemployment are persistent and especially affect the lower-skilled. Skill and occupational mismatches of vocational … time, the labour market has been responding faster to output shocks and output growth consistent with constant unemployment …
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better understanding of temporary skills-qualifications mismatch typical for student workers by analysing the preferences of … student vacancies require, on average, fewer skills than non-student positions, there is strong correlation between formal … sophistication of a job vacancy and the required minimum educational level, as well as required skills for both student and non …
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This paper examines the changing nature of occupational labour-market trends in South Africa and the resulting impact on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary...
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In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the economy, with workers moving out of agriculture and...
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affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour-augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two …
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This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...
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surveys of adult skills and educational performance suggest that younger cohorts are doing less well than their predecessors …. Many immigrants struggle both in school and in the labour market partly because of low skills and language difficulties …
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Both educational attainment and skills, as measured in the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), are high in Sweden …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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