Labour Market and Training test

Purpose

In both research and policy, there is a growing attention for the cognitive and non-cognitive skills that allow workers to perform their tasks at work in an optimal way. An important challenge is to better understand what drives the dynamics in the demand for and the supply of skills in relation to the growing flexibility of the labour market, the growing complexity of work, and internationalisation and automation that affect the nature of workers’ tasks.

This program has three main themes:

Labour market information, and occupational and recruitment choices

• Technological development/innovation on expected demand for supply for skills in the medium term.
• The educational choices of youngsters, and occupational sorting over life course.
• Adjustments in labour supply over the career.
• Changes in the workers’ tasks and how it affects the demand for skills.
• Commonality of tasks between jobs and the transfer of skills across occupations.
• Relation between work and wage dynamics.
• recruitment.

Lifelong learning and employability

• Trends, determinants and effects of lifelong learning
• Sustainable employability and reintegration of groups with a weak labour market position.
• Effects of HRD and HRM for organization and employees at the organization and sector level.
• Sustainable employability from a multidisciplinary perspective (change in tasks, skills, workload and health) and how this is anticipated or recovered.
• Training policies and learning cultures in firms.
• Impact of New Ways of Working.

Older workers and retirement

• Labour market for the elderly and retirement decisions.
• Skills and retirement.
• Employability of the low-skilled and the elderly.
• Relation between skill obsolescence, training, employability, productivity. and labour participation.
• Replacement processes in firms.