Skills and Work
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Skills for jobs
Changes in the demand for and supply of skills are creating skills imbalances, including shortages, surpluses and mismatches. The Skills for Jobs database provides information on the type of skills facing imbalances and their intensity.
Changing skill needs
In the context of changing skill need, developing the right skills that respond to labour-market needs and ensuring that these skills are fully utilised by individuals and employers becomes increasingly important.
PIAAC
The Survey of Adult Skills measures adults’ proficiency in key information-processing skills - literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments - and gathers information and data on how adults use their skills at home, at work and in the wider community.
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Adult learning
The extent to which individuals, firms and economies can reap the benefits of ongoing structural changes depends on the readiness of adult learning systems to help people develop and maintain relevant skills over their working careers.
Data
Our database spans 1990 to the present day. It covers five inter-related domains related to skills development. Further data resources incude:
What's new?
- Report: Career Guidance for Adults in a Changing World of Work
- Policy Delphi: Evidence-based VET and Adult Learning Policy
- Report: Enhancing Training Opportunities in SMEs in Korea
- Report: Workforce Innovation to Foster Positive Learning Environments in Canada
- Report: Increasing Adult Learning Participation
- Report: Continuous Learning in Working Life in Finland
- Report: Financial Incentives to Promote Adult Learning in Australia
- Report: Community Education and Training in South Africa
- Report: Adult Learning in Italy: What role for training funds?
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Key reports on Skills and Work
- Career Guidance for Adults in a Changing World of Work
- Getting Skillls Right: Future-ready adult learning systems
- Making Adult Learning Work for the Future
- New test: What does the future hold for your jobs?
- Structural Transformation in the OECD. Digitalisation, Deindustrialisation and the Future of Work
- The Risk of Automation for Jobs in OECD Countries
- Working and learning: A diversity of patterns
- The Effects of Vocational Education on Adult skills and wages: What can we learn from PIAAC?
- The causes and consequences of field-of-study mismatch: An analysis using PIAAC
- Skills at Work: How Skills and their Use Matter in the Labour Market
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