Title: Skill mismatch in the labour market and adult learning
Abstract: Chapter 7 Skill Mismatch in the Labour Market and Adult Learning Summary This chapter explores the issue of skill mismatch in the labour market and its relationship to adult learning. The extent and distribution of mismatch between the day to day literacy related requirements of workers and the literacy skills they have obtained is an important issue that can be addressed with the ALL data. Understanding better the interaction of the supply of, and demand for, literacy skills can have important consequences for industrial policies and labour market structures that foster demand, on the one hand, and lifelong learning policies and education structures that shape supply, on the other. According to the methodology applied to conduct the data analyses, skill mismatch is found to be on the order of about 30 to 40 per cent in all countries surveyed. As defined for the purposes of this chapter, mismatch includes both skill deficits and skill surpluses. It is found that the distribution of surplus tends to be concentrated among younger age cohorts as well as women and non-immigrants, while deficits tend to accrue to men, older adults and immigrants. Skill match-mismatch is also found to have a strong link to the incidence of participation in adult education as well as to the sources of financing that suppor t participation. Statistics Canada and OECD 2011
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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