Skill Mismatch and Unemployment in OECD Countries Marco Manacorda

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9725288
AutoresMarco Manacorda (University College London), Barbara Petrongolo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Año1999
Volumen66
Número262
Páginas181-207
Fecha de publicación1999-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-0335.00164
OpenAlexW1506817283
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

This paper uses evidence on employment, labour force and wage differentials by education from OECD countries to investigate the characteristics and the consequences of a skill‐biased shift in the structure of labour demand and supply. The empirical analysis shows that there has been some increase in skill mismatch in a few OECD countries over the past two decades, but this has not been a generalized phenomenon. Moreover, the rise in mismatch cannot explain much of the rise in unemployment in continental Europe, while it does explain a significant proportion of the increase in the rate of joblessness in Britain

Demographic economics · Economics · Empirical evidence · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Phenomenon · Structural unemployment · Unemployment · Unemployment rate · Wage · Economic Growth and Productivity · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Unemployment and Economic Growth