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Journal Title
Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas
Year (definitive publication)
2024
Language
English
Country
Portugal
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Alternative Titles
(Spanish/Castilian) Competencias de empleabilidad y empleo para titulados: Aprender de las ofertas de empleo
(French) Compétences d’employabilité et emplois pour les diplômés: Tirer des enseignements des offres d’emploi
(Portuguese) Competências requeridas e empregos para graduados: Lições a partir dos anúncios
Abstract
We use 2812 online job advertisements from 21 European countries to identify attributes demanded by
employers and explore economic and labour market characteristics associated with the set of required skills. Whereas
some employers clearly target ready-to-work candidates for high skilled occupations, others do not even specify skill
requirements. The latter are from countries that are moderate or modest innovators with varying levels of high-tech
employment activities, a high level of youth unemployment and a low job vacancy rate. The findings suggest
employers have raised hiring criteria and have therefore contributed to credential inflation.
Acknowledgements
We grateful acknowledge the comments from reviewers and participants of 6th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’20), Universitat Politecnica de València, Spain, 2020.
Keywords
Employability skills,Graduates,Job advertisements,European Union,Fuzzy clustering
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Sociology - Social Sciences
- Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences
