By Fabio Manca. In Italy there is an interesting link between age, skills and labour market challenges. Italy is one of many developed countries where youth represent an increasingly smaller fraction of the overall population. This is the result of both low birth rates but also of longer life expectancy, both of which can, at … More Italy’s skills and labour market challenges in an ageing society
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By Paolo Falco. Despite unprecedented progress over the past century, gender gaps in the labour market persist throughout the emerging world and are accompanied by important skill gaps. Most notably, women tend to perform worse in STEM subjects, have lower financial literacy and business knowledge than men. The OECD Employment Outlook 2016 paints an up-to-date … More Gender gaps in emerging economies: the role of skills
By Glenda Quintini. During its presidency of the G20, China decided to focus the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers Meeting (LEMM) on the theme of “Innovation: Decent work, Enhanced Employability and Adequate job opportunities” (IDEA). To inform discussions around this topic, the international organisations were asked to prepare background reports on relevant themes and the … More Enhancing Workforce Employability in G20 countries
By Paulina Granados Zambrano. The recently published Second International Report for the Survey of Adults Skills, Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills, looks in detail at the extent to which proficiency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments matters for the well-being of individuals and nations. The answer that … More More on the Survey of Adult Skills: The outcome of investment in skills
By Glenda Quintini. Skills policies have tended to focus disproportionately on the supply side – the acquisition and adaptation of skills. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing awareness that demand-side issues – how employers use skills in the workplace – are just as important as developing skills in the first place. It … More Skills use at work: Why does it matter and what influences it?
By Glenda Quintini. Today, the OECD publishes Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills, the Second International Report for the Survey of Adults Skills – an international assessment of the proficiency of adults aged 16-65 years in three key information processing skills: literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. The first … More The Survey of Adult Skills: nine more countries added on
By Katharine Mullock. Previous posts (Youth Skills day 2015 and Investing in Disadvantage Youth) addressed some of the challenges posed by youth who are not employed or enrolled in education or training programmes (the so-called NEET group). This group has increased in size since the recession: from 13.5 per cent of youth age 15-29 in OECD … More Does the year you graduate influence your future pay cheque?
By Marieke Vandeweyer. Types of skills for the future Structural changes, such as technological progress and globalisation, are changing the skills needed in the labour market. The importance of assessing skills needs was already discussed in a previous blog post. In light of the changing skills demand, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified the … More Soft skills for the future
By Guillermo Montt. In 2012, the OECD released the first results of the Survey of Adults Skills. Workers in Japan and Finland showed higher proficiency than workers in Spain or Italy. Those findings captured the media attention, as OECD country rankings typically do. But there is much more in the data. The survey assessed the … More A more skilled population ahead: age or cohort effects?
