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A recent edition of RTE's Frontline programme featured a contribution on skills-matching from audience member and fine art graduate Sea...

The European University Association (EUA) has announced the launch of TRACKIT! : a two-year project which will undertake a comparative study...

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1. A new report from the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training: " The skill matching challenge: Analysing skill mi...

Thanks to Christian for pointing out this paper published in the AER today (by Stock, Finegan and Siegfried). Endogeneity concerns aside, f...

This study is described here as a replication of the study of the occupational structure of education in Ireland and the Netherlands ( Borg...

Simon Stephens Letterkenny Institute of Technology David O'Donnell Intellectual Capital Research Institute of Ireland Paul McCusker Lett...

Following on my last blog-post on skills-matching , below is an excerpt from the song "What do you with a B.A. in English? and it Sucks...

Thanks to the Organizations and Markets Blog for pointing out this clip from the Simpsons where Bart explains graduate school. I can think ...

On the New York Times blog Economix (Explaining the Science of Every Day Life) , Princeton economist Alan Krueger has discussed the US job m...

Before I answer this question, I will remind readers that the idea of "matching" describes the extent of skills-match between Ph.D...

A new IZA discussion paper by Nordin, Persson and Rooth ( Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty? ) "adds to the sma...