Skills Obsolescence: Causes and Cures

By J. V. Loo, Andries de Grip, M. Steur. 2001

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Until now there has been surprisingly little research on the causes of and the remedies for skills obsolescence. This study tries to fill that gap to some extent by analysing the relation between risk factors and skills obsolescence. Moreover, the role remedies play to counter skills obsolescence is analysed. Four empirical analyses that relate skills obsolescence to risk factors and remedies are presented. We find that most risk factors identified in the literature can be validated empirically. The remedies for skills obsolescence are not effective in all situations: the results show that there is considerable variation in the effectiveness of the remedies across different types of skills obsolescence. Although current available data do not allow a comprehensive analysis, which also takes account of relations between the various types of skills obsolescence, the results obtained are plausible and offer a starting point for further research.

Subfields: Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• How Useful is the Concept of Skills Mismatch? (2017, methodology): “Skills can become obsolete due to ageing which depreciates certain manual skills (physical obsolescence), through technological or economic change which renders certain skills unnecessary (economic obsolescence) or through the underutilisation of skills (skills atrophy) (Allen and De Grip, 2007; Van”
• Training, task flexibility and the employability of low‐skilled workers (2004, background): “Moreover, we excluded workers with a temporary contract because these workers will almost automatically leave their current job in the next few years, whereas this does not reflect a strong labour market position as is shown in van Loo et al. (2001).”