Getting Skills Right: Skills for Jobs Indicators
This report describes the construction of the database of skill needs indicators, i.e. the OECD Skills for Jobs Database, and presents initial results and analysis. It identifies the existing knowledge gaps concerning skills imbalances, providing the rationale for the development of the new skill needs and mismatch indicators. Moreover, it explains the methodology used to measure skills shortage, surplus and mismatch, and provides key results and insights from the data.
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Introduction to the OECD Skills for Jobs indicators
As a result of globalisation, technological change and demographic shifts, the types of skills demanded by employers have changed considerably over past decades and continued change is expected. The OECD’s Skills for Jobs indicators can help facilitate the response to changing skill needs thanks to skill imbalances information that is comparable across countries and regularly updated. This chapter takes stock of existing measures of skills imbalances and provides the rationale for the development of the OECD’s new indicators of skill mismatch and skill shortages.
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