HIGHLY SKILLED LABOUR MIGRATION AND THE DIGITAL SKILLS

Today around 45% of Europeans have no or low digital skills. There may be a lack of up to 500 000 ICT professionals in 2020. ESCO is an important deliverable to support the Europe 2020 strategy and the New Skills Agenda for Europe. The paper deals with the highly skilled labour migration and digital skills. In several EU Member States, the foreign-born population had a higher level of education than the native-born population. Over-qualification denotes situations where workers' levels of formal education are higher than those required by the jobs they fill. The over-qualification rate estimated here is the share of people with tertiary-level qualifications who work in a job that is classified as low- or medium-skilled by the ISCO.