...Pankaj C. Patel Purpose This study explores the relationship between occupational skill mismatch and self-employment, examining both the likelihood of self-employment among those experiencing skill mismatches and the subsequent impact on entrepreneurial earnings. Design/methodology/approach We...

...Ghassan Dibeh; Ali Fakih; Walid Marrouch Purpose Employment and skill mismatch among youth constitute a major obstacle for access to the job market in the Middle East and North African region. The purpose of this paper is to explore factors explaining employment and the perception of the skill...

...Kea Tijdens; Miroslav Beblavý; Anna Thum-Thysen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to overcome the problems that skill mismatch cannot be measured directly and that demand side data are lacking. It relates demand and supply side characteristics by aggregating data from jobs ads and jobholders...

...Lourdes Badillo‐Amador; Luis E. Vila Purpose This paper aims to highlight the relevance of examining education and skill job‐worker mismatches as two different, although simultaneous, phenomena of the labor market. Most previous literature does not take into account skill mismatch, and a number...