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3. The Jungle of Skills Mismatch

Authors : Ingrid Kofler, Elisa Innerhofer, Anja Marcher, Mirjam Gruber, Harald Pechlaner

Published in: The Future of High-Skilled Workers

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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In the knowledge economy there is an increased focus on skills. Moreover, rapidly changing developments and growing skills shortages are generating considerable political and socio-economic tensions. The workers with the greatest potential value on the labor market seem to be the high-skilled workers, with strong digital and technological skills and complex thinking. This may have an important economic impact, but research shows that a skills shortage is not the only problem—there is also a problem of a skills mismatch with implications at different levels. These developments also have an impact on future generations—on the skills that are important for the talents of tomorrow and what that means for the education system.

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Title: The Jungle of Skills Mismatch
Authors: Ingrid Kofler
Elisa Innerhofer
Anja Marcher
Mirjam Gruber
Harald Pechlaner
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: The Future of High-Skilled Workers
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-42870-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-42871-6

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42871-6_3