This paper shows the evolution of mismatch unemployment over the period from 2007 to 2022 in Germany. A substantial … part of mismatch unemployment results from a misallocation on the qualification level rather than on the occupational level …. Taking the qualification level into account, an upward trend in mismatch unemployment in the aftermath of the COVID …

This paper provides detailed empirical evidence on the scope of mismatch in Germany in the past decade, using a … suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest …

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult …‐qualified employees. Little evidence is found in favour of equilibrium theories of skills matching and compensating wage differentials …

skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and job skill requirements of over 120,000 individuals across 28 … countries, we document that workers' skills better match their jobs' skill requirements in higher-income countries. To quantify …