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Skills mismatch is an encompassing term which refers to various types of imbalances between skills offered and skills needed in the world of work. ...
Skill mismatch, a particular form of labour market mismatch, refers not only to skill shortages or gaps, but also to qualifications, knowledge and skills exceeding job requirements. Depending on the extent of substitutability between labour of different skill levels, skill imbalances may not necessarily be equivalent to skill shortages, for instance when shortages for medium-qualified workers are easily filled with higher educated individuals (which, nevertheless, may result in rising qualification mismatches in the form of higher overqualification rates). Skill shortages usually refer to recruitment difficulties when firms struggle to hire suitably skilled workers in the external labour market (outside the firm). By contrast, internal skill gaps and skills obsolescence are phenomena that concern the currently employed.
Situation of imbalance between the skills – and qualifications – possessed by the workforce (supply) and those needed by the labour market (demand).
Comment
Skills mismatch can take different forms:
Source
Cedefop; ILO, 2017
(skill mismatch)
A situation where there is a (qualitative) discrepancy between the qualifications and skills that individuals possess and those that are needed by the labour market.
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