Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in … background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens the skills-base. Vocational and tertiary education do not always … provide skills needed by the labour market. A comprehensive approach is required to strengthen skills, based on systematic …

Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic …

estimate the effect of the reform on educational attainment, employment and wages in a comparative interrupted time series … men's wages, while not affected their employment. For women we found a positive employment effect, while wages have …

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a … unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …

temporary help service firm that records both workers' wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to client … demonstrate that the fees charged to clients grow faster over workers' tenure than the wages paid to workers. Finally, we find … growth. Each of these results are consistent with wage compression that skills acquired through training and learning …

not match their educational level, settling for lower wages than their peers. This raises the question, how these …