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Labour Market, educational

requirements and social protection

Microeconomy

Sociology Macroeconomy

Psychology Demography

Research on Labour Market, educational requirements

and social protection

Better understand the functioning of the

Luxembourg labour market

Improving the educational

system

Provide the basis for evidence-based

policy making

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Facing current and future challenges

• Rising unemployment

• Meeting the labour market requirements of the knowledge economy

• Coping with an ageing workforce

• Ensuring social inclusion, in particular in the labour market

• Ensuring the long-term viability of the social systems.

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(Source: STATEC Rapport 2007 „Travail et cohésion sociale“)

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Structure of the mismatch:

• Qualifications,

• Origin,

• Gender issues

Possible remedies: qualification,

regulatory framework, incentives,

work models…)

Improving the match between labour supply and labour demand

Labour supply:

• Impact of unemployment replacement rates

• Impact of (early-) retirement schemes

• Incentives for work participation

• work qualifications and motivations of immigrants and cross-border workers

Labour demand:

• Hiring behaviour of companies and public organisations (qualifications level, origin, age, gender, etc.)

• Workforce demand for diversifying the economy

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Moving from reactive towards proactive policy-making

Anticipating future needs / developments and their impact on the welfare state:

• Skills needed in the knowledge-based economy

• New work models for the knowledge society:

part-time jobs, multi-jobs, teleworking, etc.

work-life balance

“a-typical” work models and social security (“précariat”)

• Ageing and shrinking workforce

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Addressing Luxembourg specificities

Cross-border workers in the Greater Region in 2005

Source: Offices statistiques de la Grande Région, www.grande-region.lu

Luxembourg is a small-sized but open

economy!

• High level of immigrants in the labour market

• High dependence on cross-border workers

Adapting instruments and tools used

abroad to the specificities of Luxembourg Developing new tools and concepts.

Cross-border labour markets need cross-border labour market research!

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Improving education and training

Maintaining a qualified workforce and ensuring social inclusion in the labour market:

• Determinants of educational achievement / failure

• Management of heterogeneity

• Effectiveness of the education system

• Preconditions for “smooth” and successful transitions from the education system to the labour market.

Adapting to the knowledge society: rethinking training!

• Developing flexible (lifelong) learning methods (e.g. based on e-learning, etc.)

• Individual learning paths

• Validation of professional experience