Today IER's Professor Terence Hogarth and Dr Emily Erickson will present evidence from two ongoing EU funded research projects on the causes and implications of skills mismatches.

The presentation and subsequent discussion will address skill mismatches and how they have been conceptualised, measured and defined in the UK and other countries. The purpose is to demonstrate where the existing knowledge base is relatively strong but also to highlight areas where there continue to be gaps. The presentation will reflect on the relatively long history of measuring skill mismatches in England which stretches back to at least the Skill Needs in Britain surveys from the 1990s.

Consideration will also be given to how approaches using natural language processing techniques might be used to identify skill mismatches. This is being addressed, in part, by the SkillsPULSE Horizon study and the Skills2Capabilities Horizon study in which the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER) is currently participating.