Skip to main content
PILLARS — Pathways to Inclusive Labour Markets
  • News
    • News Archive
    • Newsletter
  • Project
    • About PILLARS
    • Work packages
    • Spotlight
  • Insights
  • Partners
    • Project partners
    • Scientific Advisory Board
    • Expert Stakeholder Group
  • Publications
    • Scientific Publications
    • Policy Debate
  • Events
    • Upcoming events
    • Past events
  • Connect
Search

Insights

China-Europe: Make Up or Break Up?

May 26, 2023

China and Europe pose a conundrum to each other. Europe squirms uncomfortably between the USA and China in their superpower competition, trying to stay on good terms with both at the same time as minimising any risk of economic or geopolitical fallout. China, in turn, must weigh which partnership to prioritise: its newly minted “no-limits” friendship with Russia, or a closer relationship with Europe as a counterweight to the pressure exerted, and restrictions imposed, on it by the US.

China-Europe: Make Up or Break Up?
Details

Workshop: How Novel Ways of Leveraging Data Reveal Future Skills Needs

April 28, 2023

It was the ideal line-up for a workshop to explore the future of work: Pillars hand-in-hand with its partner the ifo Institute and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria. The task: to review how data can be leveraged to ascertain not only the state of skills availability, but also which skills will be needed in the future.

Workshop Munich ifo IHK
Details

Early-Bird Advantage

March 08, 2023

At first sight it is a bit of a paradox. On the one hand, it has long been clear that the skills you acquire, say, at university no longer will see you through to the end of your career life: you have to reinvent yourself several times along the way just to stay current. On the other hand, the skills that you learn early in your career will boost your earnings throughout your entire working life.

Early-Bird Advantage
Details

Adjusting to Automation

March 01, 2023

Policymakers are understandably concerned about the effect of automation technologies on employment and wage levels in their jurisdictions. The effects, however, tend to be quite heterogeneous – and not much is known regarding what drives this heterogeneity.

Adjusting to Automation
Details

The Hottest Labour Market Tool

February 18, 2023

It would be a match made in heaven: the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills (known officially as the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, PIAAC) and the European Commission’s ESCO project (a multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications, and Occupations). Together, they would create an invaluable map of the supply and demand for professional skills across countries.

Labour Market Tool Open Data
Details

Policy Brief: Reverse Brain Drain?

January 26, 2023
  • China’s increasing economic sophistication and demographic pressures will intensify Chinese demand for high-skilled workers
  • Chinese companies will use the online international job market to tap European and other foreign talent
  • Thanks to d
Policy Brief: Reverse Brain Drain?
Details

Conference Report: European Labor Markets - Mastering Technological and Structural Change

September 16, 2022

Sunny days and tight labor markets have something in common: they don’t trigger an urge to repair anything. But just as a sunny day is better for fixing the roof, instead of climbing on slippery slates during a downpour, tight-labor periods are good for preparing for more turbulent times ahead. And turbulence is definitely coming to a labor market near you.

European Labour Markets
Details

Lost once? Aim higher

May 16, 2022

Losing one‘s job is one of the more severe psychological blows one can experience, similar in magnitude to a divorce. But while a divorce might actually improve your marriage skills for the next time around, especially because the skills needed remain practically identical, in a job-loss situation the skills used previously can become degraded or obsolete, in particular if the jobless period drags on, resulting over time in a skill mismatch with what the labor market requires.

insight skills WP 9703
Details

1st Pillars Conference on Education, Skills, and Worker Retraining

February 28, 2022

Until just a few decades back you could count on the education you got in college seeing you all the way to retirement. Now, you have to reinvent yourself professionally several times during your working life just to stay current. Lifelong learning is the name of the game, and training and re-skilling the tools of choice.

1st Pillars Conference on Education, Skills, and Worker Retraining
Details

© PILLARS – Pathways to Inclusive Labour Markets

  • Imprint
  • Privacy Policy

EU flagThis project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101004703.

Twitter Timeline