Education and work: The perennial mismatch and ways to solve it

Abstract

Every country in the world has attempted, one time or another, to improve the fit between education and work. None has really succeeded in doing so. The paper first discusses the theoretical reasons why the matching of education to jobs is a utopia. It then suggests a series of measures that, although will never result to a perfect fit between education and work, they would mitigate what appears to be educated unemployment

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George Psacharopoulos

The views expressed here are those of the author and should not be attributed to the World Bank