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Systematic Literature Review: An Analysis of Skill Mismatch Measurement

Table 5: Summary of future research on skill mismatch

Authors Recommendation /Limitation
Vankevich & Kalinouskaya (2021) Combine online data with other sources such as surveys and interviews with HR representativesexplore the demand skills by combining all skills in CV and employability. explore the combination of occupation and new skills from ESCO taxonomyexplore the other countries’ databases to ensure the correct benchmarking of the results.
Tijdens et al. (2018) the use of education as the proxy is a weak indicator to measure skill mismatch. the skill mismatch discussion of the study refers to the job seeker perspective, not in job holder partsthe bias of data selection as the database selection mostly presents overeducated vacancies only
Dawson et al. (2019) Tested the variable to predict skill shortage: salary levels, education requirements, experience demands, and job ad posting predictability with government agencies data and other occupational groups
Dawson et al. (2020) applying different variables and features for the next studyuse deep learning to explore more about the skills shortage.
Baruah et al. (2018) The roles of politics, governments policies, and education to overcome the skill gap for entrepreneurs in renewable energy
Almaleh et al. (2019) the authors excluded the job advertisement that publishes in Arabic.
Benhayoun & Lang (2021) exploring the profession category and analyzing the experience required. widened the study by the cover for international, and higher education levels and includes the sample of jobs that are not IT-related that use AI.
Hoang et al. (2018) improve the SKILL system supporting case-sensitive tagging creating a more broad skill hierarchy
Turrell et al. (2021) Limitation stated is treating the labor market as homogeneous, failing to account for regional variation, and excluding significant factors that reduce productivity, such as job desirability, long-term human capital accumulation, and disruption risk from new technologies
Zheng et al. (2021) Future research is suggested to explore post-matches as the authors only covered pre-match data.
Lavrynenko et al. (2018) Explore the HR perspective in requirement to communicate job advertisements that reflect the real job situation in detail.
Kranov & Khalaf (2016) Explore a longer period database in searching for job advertisements for entry engineers as only three advertisements were found during the pilot study.
Alghamlas & Alabduljabbar (2019) No limitation or recommendation statedThe findings reveal a lack of hard skills among IT student
Ward et al. (2017) No clear definition of generic skills between higher education and the industry leads to unable of measuring the skill required.
Mohamad Zamani et al. (2019) System proposed can be linked with education and skill requirements with an integrated learning analytic system.
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