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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466164003321

Autore

Handel Michael J.

Titolo

Accounting for mismatch in low- and middle-income countries : measurement, magnitudes, and explanations / / Michael J. Handel, Alexandria Valerio, and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : World Bank Group, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4648-0909-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Collana

Directions in Development - Human Development

Altri autori (Persone)

ValerioAlexandria

Disciplina

650.1

Soggetti

Vocational qualifications - Developing countries

Skilled labor - Developing countries

Job analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Executive Summary; Abbreviations; Introduction; References; Chapter 1 Defining and Measuring Skills and Mismatch; Defining Skills; Defining Mismatch; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework; Explaining Mismatch: Standard Variables; Using Skill Measures to Investigate Unobserved Heterogeneity; Role of Structural Economic Conditions and Informality; Notes; References; Chapter 3 About STEP; Introduction; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Findings: Country Context; National Income and Employment Rates

Educational Attainment, Achievement Levels, and Fields of StudySelection into Employment by Education and Achievement Level; Quality of Employment; The Task Content of Jobs; Implications for Analyses; Notes; Chapter 5 Patterns of Educational Mismatch: Findings; Introduction; Aggregate Distributions: Workers' Education and Job Education Requirements; Aggregate Imbalances and Individual-Level Mismatch; Joint Distributions of Personal and Job-Required Education; Summary of Descriptive Mismatch Results; Note; Chapter 6 Explaining Education Mismatch; Introduction