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These include large-scale offshoring of jobs, large-scale automation of jobs, decline in demand for low-skilled workers, skill mismatches, broken infrastructure, and rising global energy and food prices.
Everyone agrees that employers' desires and workers' skill sets are increasingly out of sync.
And for the United States, where one of the greatest economic challenges is raising the living standards of the middle class, enhancing workers' skill sets and productivity is simply essential.
And those former workers' skill sets run the gamut: One so-called 99-weeker worked as an electrician and maintenance person; some are in the health care field; many are fluent in computer skills and never let their laptops out of their sight for fear of missing a moment of an all-encompassing job search.
For these reasons, skill mismatch is commonly regarded as a more informative indicator and several studies measure it using data with direct information on workers' skill proficiency.
The OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) includes a rich battery of questions on skill use at work and direct indicators of workers' skill proficiency derived from a purposely designed assessment exercise.
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It has matched workers' skills to jobs.
Workers' skills may atrophy as a result of joblessness.
And sometimes public support for upgrading workers' skills makes sense".
As this special report has argued, workers' skills may erode if long-term unemployment rises.
Idle workers' skills may atrophy, particularly in dynamic industries like technology.
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