Measuring Skills Demanded by Employers : Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP)

Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura ; Rizvi, Anam

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: LABOR SKILLS;    LABOR MARKET;    SKILLS DEVELOPMENT;    SKILLS DEMAND;    TECHNICAL EDUCATION;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Economic growth depends on skills beingput to productive use. In recent years, research on laboroutcomes and education shows that there is a substantialmismatch between the supply and demand for skills around theworld (Cappelli, 2014: McIntosh and Vignoles, 2001). Thismismatch affects more than just wages or individual jobsatisfaction. Skills mismatches have an impact onproductivity and growth at both the firm level and themacro-economic level (Quintini, 2014). Reports show thatfirms around the world consider skills challenges to be animpediment to the operation and development of theirbusiness. A cause for further concern is that thisconstraint seems to be disproportionately affecting the moredynamic and innovative employers, signifying a potentiallynegative impact on job creation and technological progress(World Bank, 2012).