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Emerging skill requirements for industry are associated with a range of factors, including structural change, new production patterns, technological change, environmental sustainability, and enhancing competitiveness on global markets.
Research
Access items in VOCEDplus
- LEED papers
- OECD skills strategy initiative
- Skill demand in general
- Structural change
- Technological change
Recent publications
- Building and transforming skills for a digital world [Europe]
- Equipping Scotland for the future: key challenges for the Scottish skills system
- Future-proof: preparing young Canadians for the future of work
- Future skills and training: a practical resource to help identify future skills and training [Australia]
- Getting skills right: assessing and anticipating changing skill needs [international]
- How to create skills for an emerging industry: the case of technician skills and training in cell therapy [UK]
- Investing in skills for inclusive trade [international]
- Skilling the current and next generation workforce for a digital economy: perspectives from career and technical education (CTE) leaders from the Asia Pacific
- Skills anticipation: looking to the future [Europe]
- Skills demand, training and skills mismatch: a review of key concepts, theory and evidence
- Skills for a changing world: national perspectives and the global movement [international]
- Skills requirements for the 30 most-frequently advertised occupations in the United States: an analysis based on online vacancy data
- The future of jobs: employment, skills and workforce strategy for the fourth industrial revolution [international]
- The new basics: big data reveals the skills young people need for the new work order [Australia]
- The quant crunch: how the demand for data science skills is disrupting the job market [US]
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- A balancing act at times of austerity: matching the supply and demand for skills in the Greek labour market
- Changing occupational and skills demand in Australia: implications for cross-occupational skills transferability for workers in transition
- Demand for digital skills in the US labour market: the IT skills pyramid
- Future skill needs in Europe: critical labour force trends
- Readiness to meet demand for skills: a study of five growth industries [Australia]
- The impact of ASEAN economic integration on occupational outlooks and skills demand
- Upskilling: do employers demand greater skill when workers are plentiful? [US]
- Using web data to measure the demand for skills [international]
Resources
- Australian Government Department of Education and Training (Skills and Training)
- Bridging the skills gap [international]
- Core Skills for Work Developmental Framework [Australia]
- European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
- How to conduct a skills audit and identify skill gaps [international]
- ILO Skills and Employability Branch (SKILLS) [international]
- OECD skills strategy diagnostic reports
- Skills - OECD
- Skills@Work newsletter [Australia]
- The reasons for and impact of the skills gap [international]
- UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)
- Watch the skills gap [US]
