Vocational education and training - VET

From 2002 up to 2009, the economies of European Union countries went through a skill upgrading, rather than a polarisation between low-skill and high-skill jobs. After 2009, this changed, with declining real wages and a significant increase in the share of workers in low-skill jobs. This assessment evaluates these changes in connection with labour market variables, population densities and the emergence of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Economists are trying to understand the steady decline of non-college-educated men in the labor market.

The present study introduces a systemic model that demonstrates a description of the relationship between the labour-market and vocational education from the perspective of systemic theory.

While vocational and skills training programs have had mixed results, those that included practical experience, soft-skills training, and job referrals often increased the hours worked and earnings of people who were targeted. Vocational training programs often helped trainees acquire hard skills and certify and communicate those skills.

The policy note examines the results of 28 randomized evaluations of apprenticeships and vocational training programs. While vocational and skills training programs have had mixed results, programs that included practical experience, soft-skills training, and job referrals often increased the number of hours worked and earnings of those who were targeted. Vocational training programs often assisted trainees in acquiring hard skills, as well as certifying and communicating those skills to employers.

This policy brief highlights how youth, especially women, are being severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis is likely to be particularly severe for youth across three dimensions: (1) disruptions to education, training and work-based learning; (2) increased difficulties for young jobseekers and new labour market entrants; and (3) job and income losses, along with deteriorating quality of employment. The brief calls for urgent, comprehensive and targeted policy responses to the global pandemic.

From 2020, universities will receive a certain amount of government funding based on four performance measures: student drop-out rates; participation of Indigenous, lower socioeconomic status and regional and remote students; student satisfaction with the university experience; and employment .

A lo largo de los años, los avances tecnológicos han producido cambios fundamentales en el mercado laboral, algunas profesiones están desapareciendo, otras se están creando y la mayoría se está transformado. Esto implica que el desarrollo de habilidades laborales también se está transformado, tanto por el lado de la oferta como de la demanda. En este proceso, los desencuentros entre trabajadores y el sector productivo se intensifican.

This annual edition of Labour Force Statistics provides detailed statistics on labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and part-time employment. It also contains participation and unemployment rates by gender and detailed age groups as well as comparative tables for the main components of the labour force.

This paper analyses the individual and socio-demographic factors behind the low employment rate of refugees compared to individuals born in the EU but also compared to other migrants. It complements the 2016 Employment and Social Developments Review where a chapter was dedicated to the labour market and social integration of refugees in the EU.