| "(...) Skill shortages and skill mismatch are major concerns for policy-makers. With mass job destruction and
sectoral restructuring following the recent economic crisis, four in 10 EU employers had difficulty finding
people with the right skills, while unemployment rates peaked. Rapid digitalisation and technological skills
obsolescence has also raised concerns about the extent to which the EU workforce is adequately prepared for
the fourth industrial revolution. Yet, despite worries of increasing skill shortages and gaps, about 39% of
adult EU employees are overskilled and trapped in low quality jobs. This publication analyses Cedefop’s
European skills and jobs survey, a new data set covering about 49 000 EU28 adult employees. Compiling
different data insights, the report highlights that skill mismatch is a complex, multidimensional and dynamic
phenomenon. It calls on policy-makers to adopt a different mindset for tackling skill mismatch, focused on
sustainable activation, continuous learning, job-task reengineering and promotion of higherend product
market/managerial practices. (...)" |
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Europäisches Zentrum für die Förderung der Berufsbildung (Cedefop)