Preface

• Published in: International journal of manpower Vol. 39; no. 8; pp. 974 - 976
• Main Authors: Arnedillo-Sánchez, Inmaculada, Kahanec, Martin, Kismihók, Gábor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Group Publishing Limited 20-11-2018
• Subjects: Economic models; Education; Employers; Employment; Human resource management; Immigrants; Independent study; Interdisciplinary aspects; Job openings; Knowledge management; Labor economics; Labor force; Labor market; Labor supply; Lifelong learning; Noncitizens; Nursing; Occupations; Self employment; Semantics; Skills; Social networks; Sociology; Supply & demand; Web portals; Europe
• ISSN: 0143-7720; 1758-6577
• DOI: 10.1108/IJM-11-2018-335

Preface This special issue entitled “Labour market matching processes: skills, learning and measurement in the mobile age” results from the collaboration among a group of enthusiastic academics from the fields of labour economics, lifelong learning, human resource management, sociology of occupations and knowledge management, who in the early 2010s set out to explore how different disciplines measure, understand and explain mismatches in European labour markets, and what avenues for better labour market matching they propose. [...]the activities within and across the aforementioned disciplines were catalysed through insights from the field of knowledge management. [...]three studies explore the peculiarities and strategies of skill matching at the individual level. [...]the paper by Pajic et al. looks at how nurses in Hungary can adapt to the fast changing nursing jobs in healthcare.