Skill Shortage or Credential Inflation? Qualification mismatch in Great Britain and Germany, 1984-2017.

Autor/in	Wiedner, Jonas
Titel	Skill Shortage or Credential Inflation? Qualification mismatch in Great Britain and Germany, 1984-2017. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Fachkräftemangel oder Inflation der Qualifikationen? Qualifikationsungleichgewicht in Großbritannien und Deutschland, 1984-2017.
Quelle	(2021), 40 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SocArXiv papers
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.31235/osf.io/s63dr
Schlagwörter	Bildungsexpansion; Großbritannien; Bildungssystem; Bildungssystem; Auswirkung; Internationaler Vergleich; Bildungsexpansion; Fachkraft; Überqualifikation; Arbeitskräftemangel; Mismatch; Technologische Entwicklung; Mismatch; Arbeitskräftemangel; Unterqualifikation; Überqualifikation; Fachkraft; Internationaler Vergleich; Auswirkung; Einflussfaktor; Institution; Großbritannien
Abstract	"The dramatic expansion of education since the second world war has been recognized as one of the major forces shaping social change. However, the question whether educational expansion has outstripped the demand for qualified labour, or whether modern economies face a skill-shortage despite increases in education remains debated. Focussing on the United Kingdom and West Germany, this paper asks to what degree expansion of education has been absorbed by labour markets. I point out shortcomings of wage-centred analyses and develop an approach that focuses on trends in self-assessed over- and underqualification. Using repeated surveys, I link cohort-level expansion to mismatch prevalence. Results show that educational expansion gave rise to credential inflation and a positional value of education in the United Kingdom. West-Germany, on the other hand, is affected by a mild skill-shortage. I relate these findings to the contrasting institutional logics of education systems in the two countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/2