Developing Skills in a Changing World of Work: Concepts, Measurement and Data Applied in Regional and Local Labour Market Monitoring Across Europe

Christa Larsen; Sigrid Rand; Alfons Schmid; Andrew Dean

doi:10.978.395710/3154

Summary

The world of work is changing fundamentally and quickly as a result of technological transformation, demographic development and globalisation. The contributions in the anthology show for ten European countries that not only do the degree and speed vary significantly between occupations, sectors and firm types – the changes take on diverse forms in different geographical locations. Labour market actors at regional and local level need to know which skills, competences and know-how are required from the labour force so that they can set up their strategies in line with the future developments. Regional and local labour market observatories, which are established in over 550 regions and localities in Europe already, can provide significant support in these processes as they have far-reaching experiences with applying a wide variety of methods to collecting, analysing and combining data. Furthermore, they are embedded in regional/local networks of labour market actors and actively contribute to shaping regional strategy processes evidence-based labour market policies. The contributions demonstrate from different perspectives the approaches to skills and competence monitoring applied in various European regions and localities. In particular, the authors focus on the methods and sources of data and information, implemented instruments, resulting strategy-building and role of observatories in these processes. The compilation of approaches offers an overview of the state-of-the art in labour market monitoring, which can be used for building up skills and competence monitoring frameworks at regional and local level.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2018
Copyright Year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95710-215-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95710-315-4
Publisher: Hampp, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 488
Product Type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 10
Introduction No access Pages 11 - 24
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1. Cross-‐cutting Competences and Soft Skills in Digital Professions: Knowledge-sharing and Social Stratification in the World of Tomorrow No access Pages 25 - 50
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2. Smart Working and Organisation: Which Managerial Skills to Lead and Manage Cultural Change? No access Pages 51 - 84
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3. Changing Needs for Soft Skills and Competencies Through Digitalisation: Results of Two Business Surveys in the Federal State of Brandenburg No access Pages 85 - 102
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4. 50 Strategies for 2050: Work and the Digital Revolution in Spain No access Pages 103 - 120
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1. 1. Occupational Barometer as a Tool for Identifying Shortage and Surplus Occupations on Local Labour Markets: Evidence from Poland No access Pages 121 - 166
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  2. Monitoring Changing Needs in skills, competences and qualifications in Austria No access Pages 167 - 178
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  3. Current and Future Demand for Professions, Competences and Qualifications in the Context of the Sectoral Development of the Regional Economy: The Case of Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland No access Pages 179 - 194
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  4. Professional Qualification Mismatches in Preceding Occupations: Comparison of Persons Entering Unemployment in East and West Germany No access Pages 195 - 206
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  5. Different Skills, Different Gaps: Measuring and Closing the Skills Gap No access Pages 207 - 226
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  6. Analysing Demand-oriented Skills in the Commercial Sector: The Swiss Case No access Pages 227 - 240
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  7. Utilising Skills Demand Opportunities to Overcome the Low Professional Status and Attractiveness of a Sector: The Early Learning and Childcare Sector in Scotland No access Pages 241 - 258
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  8. Digitalisation and Automation: Insights from the Online Labour Market No access Pages 259 - 282
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2. 1. Generation Z versus the Labour Market: Skills Expectations in a New Era No access Pages 283 - 300
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  2. Motherhood as Period of Professional Growth No access Pages 301 - 314
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  3. Replay-VET: Up-skilling People with Low Qualifications to Improve Their Employability and Cover Future Replacement Positions No access Pages 315 - 328
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  4. How to Survive in the Precarious Labour Market: New Skills for the Unemployed and Employers: A Mutual Approach No access Pages 329 - 346
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3. 1. A New Regional Labour Market Intervention: The Creation and Delivery of a “Data Analytics Skills Escalator” in the Exeter SUB-‐region of SW England No access Pages 347 - 364
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  2. Innovative Economy in St. Petersburg and the Development of Competencies No access Pages 365 - 384
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1. International Systems of Labour Skills Monitoring in the Digital Economy No access Pages 385 - 394
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2. Monitoring Skill and Competence Needs in Slovenia No access Pages 395 - 424
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3. An Open and Data-driven Taxonomy of Skills Extracted from Online Job Adverts No access Pages 425 - 454
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4. Changing Need for Qualifications and Competencies: Assessment in Mazovian Regional Labour Market Monitoring No access Pages 455 - 464
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INFORMATION ON THE AUTHORS No access Pages 465 - 488