Weighing in on a debate that has preoccupied Fed officials, Mr. Bernanke planted himself on the side of those who view the high unemployment rate — 9.6 percent — as an outcome of the sharp contraction in economic demand that followed the financial crisis, rather than of structural factors like a mismatch between workers' qualifications and the skills required by employers.
Workers' qualifications and field-of-study are proxies for their skill set.
It also implements a mechanism for filtering workers based on the workers' qualifications to uphold the good quality of work.
And should a policy targeting care workers, without further definition of the workers' qualifications, be coded as 'skilled/high-skilled workers' or 'low-skilled workers'?
Worldwide, 31percentt of employers are having difficulties filling available positions, not because there aren't enough workers, but because of "a talent mismatch between workers' qualifications and their specific skill sets, against combinations of skills employers want" (Group 2010; 2013).
According to the theory of complementarities (Gargallo-Castel and Galve-Górriz 2007) we consider that the benefits will be greater if ICT is used together with the adequate organizational resources and capabilities, specifically workers' qualifications, proactive direction and innovative culture, taking advantage of complementarities.
A tendency for there to be an improvement in permanent workers' qualifications was observed.
As regards level of education, a tendency was found for an improvement in workers' qualifications regardless of the type of contract.
According to this research, there was a rise in the number of employed workers who had obtained a primary education and an expansion of the number of workers who have a secondary education, thus representing a tendency for an improvement in employed workers' qualifications [ 30].
It wants to see more undergraduate training placements occurring in the community in future and new undergraduate programmes offering dual professional nursing and social worker qualification are emerging.
