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The world of work now includes many emerging job categories requiring new skill sets. In response to this employers are demanding highly flexible and well matched workforces. At the same time youth unemployment remains a challenge globally. The concept of entrepreneurship and education to prepare for this has emerged as a potential tool to tackle unemployment, particularly among youth. Optimising the role of employers in developing and delivering education and training to provide appropriate skills for the labour market is a key issue facing most economies. One of the primary purposes of the vocational education and training (VET) system is to provide employment-related training and skills. Universities are contributing through a focus on graduate attributes and employability while incorporating work integrated learning (WIL) into curriculums.
Research
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- Ageing workforce
- Employment outcomes
- Future of jobs
- Recruitment
- Refugees and migrants
- Underemployment
- Unemployment
Recent publications
- Breaking down barriers: experiments into policies that might incentivize employers to hire ex-offenders [US]
- Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work
- Eight futures of work: scenarios and their implications [international]
- From long-term unemployment to a matching job: the role of vocational training in sustainable return to work [Europe]
- Help, but not real help: mature age jobseeker perspectives on employment services in Australia
- Impact of artificial intelligence, robotics and automation technologies on work
- Missing the mark: employer perspectives on employment services and mature age jobseekers in Australia
- Occupations in high demand in South Africa: a technical report
- OECD employment outlook 2018 [International]
- On the front line: employment services staff perspectives on working with mature age jobseekers [Australia]
- Putting your major to work: career paths after college [US]
- Solving the talent shortage: build, buy, borrow and bridge [US]
- Vocational degrees and employment outcomes [UK]
- Working for everyone?: enhancing employment services for mature age jobseekers: summary [Australia]
- World employment social outlook: trends 2018
Resources
General
- 5 ways the future of work could change for women
- Australian employment related policy
- Australian jobs [guide to the Australian labour market]
- Australian landmark reports
- Centre for Employment Studies Research (CESR)
- Compare your country: OECD Employment outlook
- Economic Modelling Specialists International (Emsi) state reports [Australia]
- EU Mutual Learning Programme Peer Reviews
- European Trade Union Institute (etui)
- Future Literacies Framework
- ILO employment research
- Institute of Employment Studies (IES)
- International employment related policy
- Labour Market Information Portal
- Labour Market Intelligence Toolkit (European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring)
- Living and working in Europe 2016 (Eurofound)
- NC-NET (North Carolina Network for Excellence in Teaching) [US]
- OECD employment outlook series
- OECD employment related publications
- OECD Job Quality blog
- OECD Policy Forum on the Future of Work
- Putting Your Major to Work: Career Paths after College
- Quinnemap (QuInnE project) [Europe]
- Skills for jobs dataviz [OECD]
- Statutory minimum wages in the EU 2018
- The jobs of 2027
- The labor market for recent college graduates (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
- Training and Employment Research Network (TERN)
- Universities equip people with the skills to succeed (Universities UK)
- Warwick Institute for Employment Research [UK]
- Workable Futures Initiative (Institute for the Future)
- Working for Everyone [Australia]
- Young Workers Index 2016 (PwC) [international]
Statistical
- CBI/Pearson 9th Annual Skills Survey [UK]
- Employment by industry statistics: a quick guide (Parliament of Australia)
- EU Skills Panorama (Cedefop)
- European Working Conditions Surveys (Eurofound)
- Income and work (Statistics New Zealand)
- Labour (Statistics Canada)
- Labour force (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
- Labour market reports (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment) [New Zealand]
- Labour market statistics illustrated (Eurostat) [international]
- The Condition of Education (NCES) [US]
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- Economic vulnerability in Australia, 2002-12: an employment perspective
- Employment and skills strategies in Australia
- Evaluation of mainstreaming of full and productive employment and decent work by the United Nations system organizations [international] NEW
- Evidence of skills shortages and general trends in employment and the value of better labour market information systems [international]
- OECD employment outlook 2018
- Technological change and employment: were Ricardo and Marx right? [Europe]
- The human capital report 2015 [international]
- World employment and social outlook: the changing nature of jobs [international]