Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) 2023

Table A.3
Shortage occupations characterised by lower skill demand

Skills in shortage occupations, by broad occupation skill group, EU-27 plus Norway and Iceland

 

 

All sample

Skilled

Semi-skilled

Manual

Elementary

Job skills requirements

Literacy scale

-0.137***

-0.0813***

-0.191***

0.0468

0.0272

 

 

(-16.73)

(-8.48)

(-10.26)

-1.86

-0.78

 

Numeracy scale

-0.0538***

-0.0482***

-0.0410*

-0.00484

-0.224***

 

 

(-7.41)

(-7.27)

(-2.57)

(-0.27)

(-7.17)

 

Manual skills scale

0.101***

0.0496***

0.196***

0.00984

-0.0273

 

 

-15.15

-5.78

-11.8

-0.49

(-1.14)

 

Social skills scale

0.0806***

-0.0189

0.355***

0.123**

0.0145

 

 

-5.86

(-1.30)

-14.33

-3.1

-0.25

 

Digital skills index

Non-user

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

(.)

(.)

(.)

(.)

(.)

 

Low

-0.0587***

-0.023

-0.0900***

0.0596*

-0.0557**

 

 

(-5.63)

(-1.33)

(-5.13)

-2.23

(-2.79)

 

Medium

-0.101***

-0.0275

-0.150***

-0.00019

-0.115***

 

 

(-9.02)

(-1.45)

(-9.05)

(-0.01)

(-5.40)

 

High

-0.0262*

0.0845***

-0.163***

-0.0698*

-0.0538

 

 

(-2.06)

-4.4

(-10.02)

(-2.33)

(-1.62)

Job quality

Job complexity scale

0.0204*

0.0192*

0.0286

-0.0266

0.00824

 

 

-2.06

-2.55

-1.77

(-0.90)

-0.16

 

Routinisation scale

-0.0258**

-0.0122

-0.0569***

-0.135***

0.0743*

 

 

(-3.26)

(-1.74)

(-3.59)

(-4.67)

-2.48

Demography

Education

Low

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

(.)

(.)

(.)

(.)

(.)

 

Medium

-0.0074

0.0313***

-0.0524***

-0.024

0.009

 

 

(-0.98)

-3.52

(-4.43)

(-0.83)

-0.44

 

High

-0.0234***

0.0404***

-0.0514***

-0.0781**

-0.0083

 

 

(-2.85)

-4.21

(-3.15)

(-2.27)

(-0.28)

Skill mismatch

Skill gap

Great extent

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

(.)

(.)

(.)

(.)

(.)

 

Moderate extent

-0.0261***

-0.0244***

-0.0183

-0.0213

-0.0209

 

 

(-4.66)

(-5.58)

(-1.76)

(-0.94)

(-0.60)

 

Small extent

-0.0303***

-0.0336***

-0.0179

-0.0438*

-0.0301

 

 

(-4.99)

(-5.56)

(-1.51)

(-2.06)

(-0.91)

 

None

-0.0252***

-0.0389***

-0.0339*

-0.038

-0.013

 

 

(-3.57)

(-3.75)

(-2.21)

(-1.67)

(-0.41)

 

Observations

41375

22587

11167

4829

2137

Note: Marginal effects of regression coefficients following the estimation of probit models with binary dependent variable, indicating if an individual is employed in a labour shortage occupation at 3-digit level. Regressions are carried out for the whole sample of paid adult employees in the EU-27 plus Norway and Iceland, as well as individually for samples of broad occupational skill groups (i.e. skilled, semi-skilled, manual, elementary occupations). Other control variables include required education for job, firm size, private sector, work hours, remote work and country dummies. The occupational skills groups are defined as follows: Skilled occupations: Managers ISCO 1, Professionals ISCO 2; Technicians and associate professionals ISCO 3; Semi-skilled occupations: Clerical support workers ISCO 4; Service and sales workers ISCO 5; Manual occupations: Skilled agriculture, forestry and fishing ISCO 6; Craft and related trades workers ISCO 7; Plant and machine operators and assemblers ISCO 8; Elementary: Elementary occupations ISCO 9

Source: Cedefop ESJS2 2021.