Labour Market and Training

  • Internationalisation, technological change and the energy transition affect the demand for labour. It shifts demand between occupations and affects the nature of workers’ tasks within occupations. These changes have impact on the supply of labour with a growing demand for problem solving skills and `soft skills’. This programme focusses on better understanding what drives the dynamics in the demand for and the supply of skills along three lines:

     

    Labour market demand, and occupational and recruitment choices
    • Forecasting the medium term labour demand.
    • Technological change, AI, energy transition and the demand for labour.
    • Impact of labour market information on study and occupational choice.
    • Changes in the occupational tasks and workers’ skills.
    • Adjustments in labour supply over the career.
    • Productivity and wages.

     

    Lifelong learning and employability
    • Trends, determinants and effects of lifelong learning.
    • Sustainable employability and reintegration.
    • HRM policies and their impact for organization and employees.
    • Training policies and learning cultures in firms.
    • Returns to training.

     

    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 and productivity.
    • Replacement processes in firms.