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Labour market institutions and the challenge of allocating the right people to the right jobs: Evidence on the relation between labour market institutions and optimal skill matching from 28 industrial countries
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Abstract This article provides empirical evidence on the relation between institutional characteristics of labour markets that frame allocation processes, and optimal skill matching at the individual level. We investigate the extent to which skill-based job-worker matches are associated with employment prote... view more
This article provides empirical evidence on the relation between institutional characteristics of labour markets that frame allocation processes, and optimal skill matching at the individual level. We investigate the extent to which skill-based job-worker matches are associated with employment protection legislation (EPL), unemployment benefits, and enforcing and enabling activating labour market policies. Drawing on data of the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), and performing cross-country analyses of 28 industrial countries, we find that EPL can explain variance in the share of optimal skill matching across countries, displaying a positive relation. We also find a negative relation between strict enforcing activating labour market policies and optimal skill matching.... view less
Keywords
activating labor market policy; social policy; international comparison; qualification; job security; labor market policy; employability
Classification
Labor Market Policy
Free Keywords
allocation; institutions; mismatch; skills; Survey of Adult Skill from the OECD's Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 257-275
Journal
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 50 (2020) 2
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/218856
ISSN
1469-3623
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0