{"id":2329,"date":"2018-01-19T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2018-01-19T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:30:09","slug":"measuring-the-qualifications-gap-regional-analysis-and-local-labour-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/measuring-the-qualifications-gap-regional-analysis-and-local-labour-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the qualifications gap: regional analysis and local labour markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/Briefing-Skills.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2330\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/Briefing-Skills.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/Briefing-Skills.png 708w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/Briefing-Skills-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/Briefing-Skills-250x163.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>The latest City-REDI Policy Briefing, \u2018Measuring the skills gap: A regional analysis of a local labour market\u2019 is a focused analysis of the NVQ (national vocational qualification) qualification ladder levels 1 through 4, in specific geographic regions of the UK. It examines the types of qualifications that employers find missing from candidates applying for jobs, providing an indicator of the mismatch between demand and supply in the labour market. Given the additional uncertainty around the UK\u2019s migrant worker policy over the coming years alongside BREXIT, it is important to understand how this gap will change, despite the inherent measurement difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>For the full briefing, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/Policy-Briefing-Skills.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up to our blog mailing list, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cityredi@contacts.bham.ac.uk?Subject=City-REDI%20Blog%20Mailing%20List\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Disclaimer:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nThe views expressed in this analysis post are those of the authors and not necessarily those of City-REDI or the University of Birmingham.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest City-REDI Policy Briefing, \u2018Measuring the skills gap: A regional analysis of a local labour market\u2019 is a focused analysis of the NVQ (national vocational qualification) qualification ladder levels 1 through 4, in specific geographic regions of the UK. It examines the types of qualifications that employers find missing from candidates applying for jobs, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/measuring-the-qualifications-gap-regional-analysis-and-local-labour-markets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Measuring the qualifications gap: regional analysis and local labour markets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,85,6,100],"tags":[90,104,97,94],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-city-redi-publications","category-economics","category-education","tag-anne-green","tag-deniz-sevinc","tag-john-bryson","tag-simon-collinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}