SKILLS MISMATCH IN ETF PARTNER COUNTRIES - Cross-country report

Skills mismatch in ETF partner countries SKILLS MISMATCH IN ETF PARTNER COUNTRIES Cross-country report Disclaimer The contents of the report are the sole responsibility of the ETF and do not necessarily reflect the views of the EU institutions. [...] Chapter 3 includes the methods chosen and the steps implemented in the ETF project to collect and prepare the datasets for selected countries This chapter highlights the challenges to the implementation of the project, the measurement of the indicators, and their cross-country comparability. [...] SKILLS MISMATCH IN ETF PARTNER COUNTRIES | 17 In the first step, ETF contacted the partner countries by letter, describing the project and exploring the interest of the NSO in the collaboration. [...] Another example of the innovations of this study, for the involved countries, is the calculation of the NEET rates both for several age groups and by distinguishing the share of inactive NEET individuals from the share of the unemployed ones. [...] According to the ILO Guidelines Concerning Measurement of Qualifications and Skills Mismatches of Persons in Employment (adopted by the 20th ICLS) (2018), for the measurement of mismatch by level of education, either the modal level of education or the mean, or the median of the completed years of schooling could be used.