Through a multicountry, practice-based review of establishment skills surveys, this article identifies conceptual issues with defining and measuring skills gaps. By harmonizing divergent conceptualizations, an operational definition of skills gaps as a situation in which current employees lack...

Workplace Communication for Skilled Migrants, formally “English for Professional Purposes ELIN 941”, is a course within the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington. the paper first describes the initial stakeholders in the programme and...

In this paper it is shown that by explicitly considering the existence of unemployed trained workers, some of the results shown by Acemoglu and Pischke regarding the effect of unemployment on the firms' training decisions become ambiguous. In fact, two contrasting effects have to be considered:...