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General
- Australian jobs [guide to the Australian labour market]
- Brotherhood of St Laurence Research and Policy Centre: Working for everyone [Australia]
- Eurofound: Living and working in Europe 2015–2018
- European Commission: Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York: The labor market for recent college graduates [US]
- Five ways the future of work could change for women
- Harvard Business Review IdeaCast: Global workers are ready for retraining
- Institute for Employment Studies (IES) [UK]
- Institute for the Future (IFTF): Workable Futures Initiative (WFI) [US]
- North Carolina Network for Excellence in Teaching (NC-NET): Employability Skills Resource Toolkit [US]
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Compare your country on topics including employment [international]
- Job quality [international]
- Key documents on the future of work [international]
- Skills for jobs: what skills are in demand in your country [international]
- PwC: Youth Employment Index 2022 [UK]
- UNESCO-UNEVOC: Atlas of emerging trends in new qualifications and competencies in TVET (the BILT Atlas)
- Warwick Institute for Employment Research (Warwick IER) [UK]
Statistical
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) labour force statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) [US]
- Eurostat Labour Market (including Labour Force Survey)
- International Labour Organization (ILO) statistics and databases
- Skills-OVATE: skills online vacancy analysis tool for Europe
- Statistics Canada labour statistics
For students
Articles from the myfuture website
- Entrepreneurship in a changing world
- Green careers, not just scientific and technical
- Navigating the workplace as a graduate
- The 4 main factors affecting job prospects
- What are sectors, industries and career fields?
- What are your rights as a casual employee?
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Professor Francis Green
Professor of Work and Education Economics
Institute of Education, LLAKES Centre
University College London
Collected works and publications by Francis in VOCEDplus
Professor Francis Green maintains an interdisciplinary approach in both research and teaching. His research focuses is on skills, education, training, work quality and industrial relations issues, and his general interests lie in labour economics, education economics and political economy. Francis has published more than 150 articles and eleven books, including:
Demanding work: the paradox of job quality in the affluent economy,
Skills and skilled work: an economic and social analysis,
and his most recent book, co-authored with historian David Kynaston, Engines of privilege: Britain's private school problem.
To view Francis's work and further information please visit his webpage.
Media
Global shifts in employment structure: a new geography of jobs? [podcast]
(Source: ILO, November 2022)
Why are key workers undervalued? [podcast]
(Source: ILO, March 2023)
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