scholarly journals Technology as a driver of skills obsolescence and skills mismatch: Implications for the labour market, society and the economy

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2015) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gracia Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Society ◽  
Skills Mismatch

scholarly journals 'People take you more seriously': the perceived value of a PhD degree and the skills mismatch in the labour market

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Heuritsch ◽  
Cathelijn Waaijer ◽  
Inge van der Weijden
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Career Goals ◽  
Skills Mismatch ◽  
Scientific Skills ◽  
Dutch Universities

Increasing numbers of doctorate graduates work outside academia. This raises the question to what extent doctoral education offers the skills that are required for non-academic employability. In a survey of 2,193 recently graduated PhDs from Dutch universities, we studied what recent PhD graduates perceive as the main value of a PhD degree. In addition, they indicated to which extent they developed certain skills during the PhD and the extent to which they need them in their current job. The main values that doctorate holders attach to their doctoral education and degree are preparation for career goals, development of research skills, enjoyment, and social status. Most of the values mentioned are geared towards academic careers. Furthermore, we show that scientific skills are developed sufficiently during doctoral education, but management and social skills are not. This mismatch is larger for PhD holders working outside the academia than within academia.

The Challenges of Work-Based Learning via Systemic Modelling in the European Union

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-228
Author(s):  
Evangelos C. Papakitsos ◽  
Evangelos Theologis ◽  
Panagiotis S. Makrygiannis
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Economic Environment ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Skills Mismatch ◽  
Systems Inquiry

While the skills mismatch is well documented in EU labour market, it renders work-based learning a plausible part of the answer to this problem. Yet, a number of issues demand handling before work-based learning is effectively utilized. Systems inquiry, through systemic modelling, constitutes a proper framework to facilitate a holistic study of such complex social phenomena. From a systemic perception, the complexity of social systems has prevented a holistic study. The descriptive power of systemic modelling allows for such a study that relates labour-market to dual education via apprenticeship. Thus, the respective systems are studied as a whole; the challenges arising are specified and the limitations of the solution are clarified. The application of apprenticeship in heavily industrialized countries can yield results, but it may fail in countries like Greece with a very different socio-economic environment. Still, some recommendations can be formed for a variant of apprenticeship more attuned to such cases.

Discriminatory labour market experiences of A8 national high skilled workers in the UK

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Sirkeci ◽  
Necla Acik ◽  
Bradley Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Skills Mismatch ◽  
Annual Population ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Overqualification among migrants, defined as being employed in a job that is below their acquired skill levels through education, is well-known. Recent studies show that overqualification is more likely amongst migrants who work in the older EU15 member states. Similar studies carried out in the UK supports the argument that minorities suffer from ethnic and religious penalties in the labour market, especially among high skilled groups. Despite the relatively high employment rates of A8 migrants in the UK, they tend to be overwhelmingly employed in elementary occupations (i.e. requiring low skill levels) and likely to be underpaid. Very few studies have examined the propensity of overqualification of A8 nationals working in the UK. We have adopted the skills mismatch model to examine the skills level mismatch for the A8 migrants.  Therefore, a time-series analysis was carried out using  the Annual Population Survey for the period of 2005 to 2012 which marks the beginning and end of restrictions for access to the labour market for A8 nationals across the European Union. This has also given us a time span of 8 years during which the UK economy fall into recession from 2007 onwards.. The evidence shows that A8 nationals have been subject to ethnic penalties in the high end of the labour market irrespective of the impact of the financial crisis. It is very common that they take up posts for which they are overqualified, or in other words, overeducated. This is particularly important as discrimination at that level is likely to have negative impact on economic recovery by supressing the full skill and entrepreneurial potential of this particular group in the UK labour market.

scholarly journals Vertical, Horizontal and Residual Skills Mismatch in the Australian Graduate Labour Market

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 (306) ◽  
pp. 301-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian W. Li ◽  
Mark Harris ◽  
Peter J. Sloane
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Skills Mismatch

scholarly journals The effects of COVID-19 on the labour market

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Beáta Kádár ◽  
Szeréna Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Society ◽  
The Impact

Abstract COVID-19 is currently a pandemic of such a magnitude that it affects economy, labour market, society and all aspects of life. Many researchers are currently engaged in examining the issues, challenges and impacts caused by COVID-19. It causes changes of such nature and degree in the economy and labour market that have been unprecedented. In fact, as a result of the pandemic, the operation and composition of the economy and the structure of the labour market will change. The present study examines how Romanian respondents see the impact of COVID-19 on the labour market, employment and on the different sectors of the economy.

scholarly journals Getting personal: investigating how living with universal credit affects emotions and identities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sophia Constance Negus
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Market Society ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact

This thesis investigates the impacts of Universal Credit (UC) on emotions, wellbeing, identities, and the ‘self’. The findings are of growing importance as increasing numbers of people are receiving UC. Six million people now engage with a ‘violent’ system (Cooper and Whyte, 2017) which pushes people further from the labour market, society, health, and their ‘self’. UC introduced radical changes to British working-age social security, with aims to ‘simplify’ the system, reduce costs and fraud, and ‘make work pay’. Since launching in 2013, there has been growing evidence on the negative impacts of UC, yet, little is known about the impact UC has on emotions, wellbeing, identities, and the ‘self’, a gap in knowledge this thesis addresses. A geographically bound case-study was adopted using semi-structured interviews and participant-solicited diaries to investigate the diverse realities and impacts of UC. The analytical framework utilises several concepts and theories, drawing upon Elias (1994) as it is argued UC is a ‘civilising offensive’ (Powell, 2013), and Goffman (1997/2007) to explore the impacts on identities. This thesis provides empirical contributions to knowledge surrounding the extent and severity of the impacts of UC on emotions and the ‘self’. The research found that harm inflicted from UC carries serious consequences and the experiences indicate a systemic erosion of people, lives, and possibilities. The findings demonstrate how UC is experienced as dehumanizing and destabilising of emotions, wellbeing and the ‘self’. It provides important insights into how people respond to UC and the significant resources spent on ‘self-management’ as individuals attempt to preserve their identities which are under threat from institutional scrutiny, stigma and increasing poverty. Therefore, this thesis provides an important contribution to knowledge surrounding the corrosive nature of UC.

scholarly journals UAE’s Labor Market Snapshot | Skills and Educational Mismatch During Industry 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1332-1340
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Educational Mismatch ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Skills Mismatch ◽  
Private And Public

The increased penetration of technology which brings efficiency to businesses globally has caused a shift in the skills that are required by the employees. One of the ways that the economy can reap the benefits of the digital revolution is by ensuring the development of appropriate skills that are mandated by the technological economy. Skills and educational mismatch have been noted to have a negative influence on employee and labour market outcomes. Due to this, several studies that focused on diagnosing the phenomena of skills and educational mismatch have been conducted in some developed countries. Despite the rate of economic growth that the UAE has achieved, far too little scholarly attention has been paid to skills and educational mismatch in the country. Therefore, this study’s objective is to measure the extent and nature of skills and educational mismatch from the perception of current workforce in the market. Using quantitative methodology, primary data in the form of surveys was collected from 206 respondents. SPSS was used to analyze the survey data in the form of descriptive statistics and cross tabulations. The results indicated that skills and educational mismatch is prevalent in the UAE across the private and public sector. Moreover, we found evidence suggesting the nature of skills mismatch is skills gap and the type of educational mismatch that is most prevalent in the UAE is horizontal mismatch. The results also indicate that engineers are some of the most affected by both skills and educational mismatch where most of the engineers are not working in engineering jobs compared to business management graduates most of who are working in their field of graduation. This paper contributes by creating new evidence in the area of skills and educational mismatch in the UAE’s labour market. It has bridged a gap by examine the state of mismatch in the UAE which can then allow to establish corrective actions to reduce the said mismatch in the country.

scholarly journals Oddities in the Canadian Labour Force in the 21st Century

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Christell Simeon
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Skills Mismatch

A paradox is a term that can be used to describe an economic climate where there are many unemployed persons and yet still a large influx of temporary foreign workers? This is the labour dynamics currently existing in Canada; growing numbers of unemployed persons in provinces where simultaneously thousands of temporary foreign workers are entering the labour market to fill job vacancies. Some researchers have rationalized that this phenomenon is caused by a skills mismatch – the imbalance between the skills employees possess and those skills required to perform a particular task or role in a job (Lundberg, 2007).

scholarly journals ARE ECONOMIC STUDIES GRADUATES UNDER-EMPLOYED? A SKILLS MISMATCH STUDY

2016 ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Roxana Hatos ◽  
Tomina Saveanu
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Generic Term ◽  
Skills Mismatch ◽  
Economic Studies

Skills mismatch is a generic term that refers to various types of imbalances of skills and competencies offered and those needed in the labour market. The concept has become one intensely discussed and subjected to measurements in research amid international concerns about its human resource under-utilization. The article aims to analyse under-employment of economic studies graduates. This is achieved by analysing the results of a professional path survey, with bachelor graduates of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, conducted at the end of 2015. Our main research question was: which are the predictors of the over-qualification of University of Oradea. Faculty of Economic Sciences graduates. The analyses show that under-employment of our graduates is not explained by any demographic variables, but solely by employment outside the domain and specialization of education, as well as by number of jobs previously held by respondents.

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