Investigates the skill mismatch between job offer and job demand on the Tunisian labour market and potential avenues for coping with it Suggests that a reform of certain parts of the development system is needed in order to respond to the rapidly changing needs of the labour marketArgues that the central factor for the current skill mismatch consist in the nature of the education system and offers suggested reforms

Autorentext
Isabel Schaefer is Lecturer at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, and Associated Senior Researcher at German Development Institute.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Labour Market Trends and the Skill Mismatch.- Chapter 3: Structural Causes for Unemployment and the Skill Mismatch.- Chapter 4: Educational Causes and Features of the Skill Mismatch.- Chapter 5: Recommendations: Three Avenues to Address the Skill Mismatch.