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If the supply of technically proficient workers gets a big boost, wages would likely fall, at least modestly.
In general, however, given time, the number of proficient workers available to follow a given occupation will be increased by a rise in the relative rate of pay it offers.
Table 9 shows that, on average, across countries, the indicator of literacy use at work for individuals who are under-skilled in literacy is about 16.3% higher than the corresponding indicator for similarly proficient workers who are well-matched, suggesting that they do actually over-use their skills.
Over-skilling is associated with a substantial waste of skills, as workers who are over skilled in literacy appear to use their skills at work substantially less than similarly proficient workers who are well-matched, namely 5.3% lower usage of literacy and 1% lower usage of numeracy.
Second, exploiting the rich background questionnaire of the PIAAC survey, it is possible to compare the utilization of skills in the workplace by similarly proficient workers who are well-matched or mismatched in their jobs, thus constructing indicators of the degree of under- and over-utilization of skills associated with mismatch.
Schools would become true learning centers, because students would trust and experience schools as sanctuaries devoted primarily to their growth, not factories churning out academically proficient workers.
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This can be interpreted as follows: adaptive and proficient health workers are highly likely to be competent but this may not always hold since competent health workers may not always be adaptive.
Reuters reported in October that Google was having trouble finding Indian workers proficient in the languages and design technologies used in the latest generation of Web sites.
The consensus is that the UK is particularly lacking in workers proficient in Stem subjects - science, technology, engineering and maths.
The continuity of care from pregnancy to postnatal care by health workers "proficient and dedicated to KMC" [ 23] has been highlighted in the literature as important for the promotion of infant well-being.
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