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Title: What are the new occupations and the new skills? And how are they measured?

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This State of the Art Report aims to provide an overview of the academic and the policy debate on the emergence of new occupations and skills in the 21th century. Although the discussion on new jobs and skills is not new to the literature or the public debate, the issue still receives a lot of attention because of the socioecological transition that many countries in Europe are facing and the labour market implications that it brings along. Due to technological progress, globalisation and demographic and climate changes, new occupations are arising while other occupations disappear. At the same time, new jobs require new skills or combinations thereof, which need to be developed through formal education, on-the-job training or in another way. In order to better understand the labour market implications of such a transition, the report first thoroughly explores the concepts of occupations and skills and then continues with an analysis of the academic and policy view on these concepts. Commonly, the concepts of occupations, jobs, tasks and skills are studied simultaneously. From both the academic and policy work, it is clear that new occupations and skills are not entirely new phenomena, but the implications do appear to change over time. The academic and policy literature also appear to draw a lot on each other, in the sense that many concepts, definitions, methods and databases are shared. The remainder of the report is then dedicated to an analysis of the traditional methods and data sources and the introduction of innovative methodologies and new web-based datasets to analyse these phenomena. These new data and methodologies are promising and contribute to the real-time identification of new occupations and skills as they arise. In that way, the report supports work on mismatch, skill gaps, over-education, school-to-work-transitions and other factors and furthers our understanding of the dynamics of the labour market.

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Authors: Beblavy, Miroslav; Akguc, Mehtap; Fabo, Brian; Lenaerts, Karolien

Publisher: InGRID

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Methodology and Data Collection

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