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  • "The ongoing restructuring of today's labour markets and the swift changes in occupational structures and skill requirements generate a risk for unbalanced growth in the supply and demand for qualifications. This paper concentrates on the instruments employed in Scandinavia to identify labour market mismatches, understood as shortages of qualifications related to a certain occupation or education group. There are various actors engaged in the forecasting of labour market developments in the individual countries. The public employment services (PES) stand out as the main actor concerning the identification of short-term needs and the characteristics of current mismatches. The PES efforts are primarily carried out on the regional and/ or local levels, and the central tools are comprehensive company surveys and ongoing regular contacts with the surrounding society. The information obtained is essential to adjust the focus of labour market training, which has the primary objective to support the employment offices in their efforts to smooth the matching process on the labour market. In all three countries, models have also been developed to project medium and long-term supply of labour by education groups and demand for labour by branch. A common feature of these models is that they offer thought-provoking mismatch scenarios rather than genuine prognoses of the most probable labour market outcome. To some extent the projections are employed to regulate the education and training dimensions, primarily within higher education. However, the central political strategy in the Scandinavian countries is to provide all individuals with an adequate education offer. Thus, the medium- and long-term projections appear primarily useful for individuals deciding on their career paths, and to highlight situations where there is an obvious conflict between the individuals' demand for education and training and the labour market needs for certain types of skills. Other central aspects of the Scandinavian system include decentralisation, management by objectives, and representation of the social partners in important advisory as well as decision-making bodies at national and regional level." (author's abstract) (xsd:string)
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  • 2004 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 2004 (xsd:gyear)
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  • Labour market forecasts and their use: practices in the Scandinavian countries (xsd:string)
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  • GESIS-SSOAR (xsd:string)
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  • urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-117800 ()
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  • 2004-105 (xsd:string)