We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and … cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of … workers with well-matched skills to their job duties. Jobs are categorised according to the nature of tasks, including the …

sorting may be inefficient if jobseekers have inaccurate beliefs about their skills and therefore apply to jobs that do not … match their skills. To test this idea, we measure young South African jobseekers' communication and numeracy skills and …

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 …

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 …

the revelation of college preferences through exams and the selection of allocation mechanisms. We propose a method in …