shows where conditions are ripe for quality job creation due to high skills supply and high skills demand. In 2010, Lisbon and Alentejo are in “high skills equilibrium”, where a high supply of skills (percentage of people with post-secondary education) is matched by a high skills demand (percentage of medium and high skills occupations and GVA per worker). Central Portugal and the Islands of Azores are in “low skills equilibrium”, where a low supply of skills is matched by a low demand for skills. The Islands of Madeira have a skills deficit, meaning that the demand for skills outstrips the supply, while North Portugal and Algarve are in skills surplus (the supply of skills exceeds demand).