A majority of the European Union (EU) states are facing labor and skill shortages in various sectors, along with high rates of unemployment. The sectors are I.T, health, consumer & commercial services, education, construction, engineering, to name a few. The root causes are mismatch between...

The Mahbub-ul-Haq Human Development Center, Islamabad, presented the Human Development Report for 2003. The report opined that the skills demanded by globalization were lacking in the workforce in South Asia, thus exacerbating unemployment. Ironically, educated unemployment has increased...

Using a data-driven methodology that allows to quantify the importance of different skills in performing green tasks, we estimate the green potential for 26 European countries. By green potential we mean the share of employed persons in occupations characterised by skills that are important for...

This paper pursues a scenario analysis to shed light on past and potential future labour supply and labour demand dynamics of different skill groups in the six Western Balkan countries (WB6). It differentiates between four educational levels (low, medium-general, medium-VET, and high) and looks...

Im Auftrag der Unabhängigen Kommission "Zuwanderung" des Bundesministeriums des Inneren schätzte das ifo Institut den Fachkräftebedarf in Deutschland bis zum Jahr 2015. Im Rahmen einer Status-quo-Projektion wurden zu erwartende Mismatchsituationen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt aufgezeigt und...