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Employability and Education Mismatch in the Moroccan Urban Workplace
- Source :
- SAGE Open, Vol 13 (2023)
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publishing, 2023.
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Abstract
- This study explores the skill demand and supply of the current Moroccan urban labor workforce. It seeks to understand the experience of skill mismatch, and how it affects employability. Using semi-structured interviews and a phenomenological approach, the study explores the nature of job queues as informed by recruiters and educators. A total of 27 interviews were conducted with recruits, recruiters, and university professors, all of whom were selected using a criterion-based approach coupled with snowball sampling. Over-education was affirmed among employees, and the findings yielded a crossover of skill sets. The job queue for a balanced labor market is oriented towards personal attitudes and capabilities related to the field of study. Finally, responses from both recruiters’ and professors’ interviews yielded a framework of education-job matches for the demand-supply sides, and oriented workplace-based employability.
- Subjects :
- History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
AZ20-999
Social Sciences
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21582440
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- SAGE Open
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.0f54660e8764387a07283f0a5a4a207
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231217890