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That return to full employment will also reduce the number of people who, discouraged that no jobs exist for those with their skills, have stopped looking for work (and are therefore not counted as unemployed).
There is a critical need to anticipate coming technological changes and provide the global workforce with the education and skills needed to participate in the modern labor market.
Worldwide, one-third of employers surveyed complain that they are unable to find workers with the right skills for existing vacancies.
Efficient paths from training and education programs to the world of work must be built, so that skills can be matched to market demand.
Government programs must be strengthened, and employers and trade unions must assume greater responsibility for investing in skills.
Whatever a country’s development level, investment in education and skills will increase the ability of its workforce to innovate and adapt to new technologies.
The first key to business-like innovation in government is a focus on skills.
Top-tier companies continuously invest in their employees to provide them with the right skills for the marketplace.
Governments must do the same, by constantly upgrading skills and nurturing innovation – among their own employees, across key sectors of the economy, and at the foundations of the education system.
Governments that fail to equip new generations with the skills needed to become leaders for their time are condemning them to be led by other, more innovative societies.
The answer lies in honing our children’s creativity, and providing them with the analytical and communication skills needed to channel it toward productive ends.
Whereas more than 80% of the value of the Standard & Poor’s 500 consisted of tangible assets 40 years ago, today that ratio is reversed: more than 80% of the largest companies’ value is intangible – the knowledge and skills of their employees and the intellectual property embedded in their products.
For those whose skills have lost value and whose jobs are threatened by automation, this hardly counts as “progress.”
Indeed, nearly six million Pakistani children are currently out of school, and many more are not learning even basic mathematics or reading skills.
Making migration easier would not only open up opportunities in the cities; it would also accelerate agricultural transformation, as the fewer remaining agricultural workers would need to acquire new skills to raise productivity and wages.
Chinese producers can use 3D printing, robotization, and Big Data and AI applications at the local level, while still tapping into global markets and sourcing ideas and skills from abroad.
Of course, no magic wand can turn small business owners with limited capital and skills into entrepreneurs.
But the skills needed for leadership of a wartime governing council are very different from those needed to run a sovereign state.
The financial sector, which typically pays more than most others, draws scarce high-level skills away from areas of the economy in which they may contribute more to productivity.
In today’s mostly closed environment, they mostly lack awareness of their political skills and vision.
The International Commission for Financing Global Education Opportunity reported last year that nearly 40% of employers are having difficulties recruiting workers with the right skills.
Wherever youth unemployment remains high, MOOCs offer a new way to boost skills and employability.
The latter includes 178 approved job types; by design, none – the choices include waiter, bathroom attendant, taxi driver, auto battery repairman, mule driver, and wheelbarrow operator – makes use of an educated person’s skills.
As services and software converge, public officials must enhance their technical skills and work with the private sector to ensure market fairness and efficiency.
With nearly half of all services jobs in the OECD at risk of automation, the sharing economy can smooth the disruption caused to displaced workers as they upgrade their skills.
But, given the scale and complexity of any remedy for Europe’s shrinking stock of skills and talent, the problem needs to be placed at the top of the policy agenda.
As an increasing number of international actors fish in the global talent pool in the coming decades, simply reeling in mature talent developed abroad will no longer be viable, particularly given that the source regions for talented people will be those in which skills development is now relatively low.
As a result, effective measures to counteract the global talent gap – characterized by a labor shortage in certain sectors, skills mismatches (workers with qualifications that are no longer in high demand), and under-skilling (few or no qualifications) – are needed today.
It would also develop scalable and economically sustainable models for providing the education, apprenticeships, and training needed to increase the global skills base.
Education systems will also need to keep up with demand for language fluency and digital skills.
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