SINCE the 1980s, jobs-skills mismatch has been a favorite topic among leaders of government, industry, labor and academia. In his July 24, 2023 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Ferdinand ...

In a white-collar industry, most hiring managers are looking for a college-educated worker to fill an open role. But they’re also often let down when they find those same workers, who should ...

The figure shows displacement effects for workers who make different types of occupation switches. Pre-displacement trajectories are reasonably similar between displaced and non-displaced workers.

The modern labor market is currently reorganizing at a pace that outstrips employers, workers, and educators’ ability to adapt. Traditional job titles, which once served as reliable proxies for ...

IN the Philippines, many employees find themselves in jobs or roles that don’t fully match their career goals, qualifications, skills, or experience due to mismatches, gaps, or shortages. Skills-jobs ...

We study how international labor mobility interacts with fiscal policy and skills mismatch. We develop a small open economy model featuring heterogeneous households, endogenous migration decisions, ...

Across the Greater Memphis area and the MidSouth, employers are struggling to hire workers. A difficult situation prior to the pandemic, managers say hiring has become exponentially more difficult for ...