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New Publication: The Value of Early Career-Skills

March 13, 2023

Acquiring early-career skills and having to reinvent yourself professionally over your working life go hand in hand, especially during these fast-changing times. Acquiring those early skills, however, definitely gives you a leg-up.

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Call for Papers: Labor Market Effects of Automation and Technology Adoption in the Global Economy

March 06, 2023

This workshop aims to bring together a group of researchers working on topics related to automation, technological change, and labor markets in a global economy. We will discuss theoretical and empirical contributions that help us understand the determinants of automation in an open economy and discuss the impact of automation and technology adoption on firms and their workers.

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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
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Workshop: The Future of Work – How Novel Data Reveals Future Skills Needs

February 21, 2023

It is a powerful line-up: Pillars is joining forces with the ifo Institute and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria 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.

The Future of Work – How Novel Data Reveals Future Skills Needs
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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.

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Policy Brief: Reverse Brain Drain?

January 30, 2023

Ever since China opened up to international trade, it has shaken up European labor markets one way or another, usually to the detriment of the low-skilled segment. Now, as it gains in sophistication and technological prowess, it may start to affect the high-skilled segment as well—and to a greater degree than the low-end one, by tapping European high-skilled workers.

Policy Brief: Reverse Brain Drain?
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Spotlight: Promoting Young Scholars - Isabella Gourevich

January 17, 2023

She almost went over to the Dark Side. For years, she was sure that she wanted to study Business Administration. But luckily, before taking that fateful step, she attended a lecture to introduce Economics to prospective students. The discussion about monetary systems and global value chains mesmerized her. Three days before the deadline to commit to a career, she changed her mind. Now she is one of us.

Spotlight Promoting Young Scholars: Isabella Gourevich
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Regional Workshop on the Baltic States

November 11, 2022

The workshop aims to discuss the impact of automation technologies on the labour markets in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), and to highlight policies in the region that have been designed to stimulate innovation and inclusion on the labour markets. Specifically, the project team would like to focus on three policy areas during the workshop:

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Call for Papers: CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2023

October 20, 2022

There are worse things in life than decamping to a leafy island right across the water from San Marco in Venice. And if you can check the “work” box for it, well, that much better. SPRU and Pillars will be holding a workshop at the famed lagoon town in June 2023, devoted to combining different disciplinary approaches to tackle the effects that technological change will have on the future of work, instead of letting each discipline toil away on its own silo. 

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Spotlight: Francesco Trentini - A Pillar of Society

October 17, 2022

Francesco Trentini didn’t home in onto economics right away. His interest in the study of society led him to enroll in 2008 for a bachelor in Economics and Social Sciences at Milan’s Bocconi University, where he initially went for sociology and demography. His first thesis was on norms in cohabitation patterns in Europe.

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Christina Langer presented her research at Stanford Digital Economy Lab

October 05, 2022

Christina Langer has been invited to share her research about the German apprenticeship “The Value of Skills: New Evidence from Apprenticeship Plans” at the Seminar Series of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.

Check out her talk here:

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Policy Debate of the Hour

September 30, 2022

Pillars researchers were granted the honour to contribute to the first 'Policy Debate of the Hour" in the new issue of the EconPol Forum (formerly CESifo Forum) on European Labor Markets.

European Labour Markets
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Brussels Pillars-EconPol Conference Report

September 16, 2022
Check out the report that recaps the Pillars-EconPol conference held in Brussels last July.
Check out the report that recaps the Pillars-EconPol conference held in Brussels last July.
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New Kid on the Block

August 04, 2022

The Pillars Scientific Advisory Council has gained in Bledi Taska a new member whose credentials and expertise are a perfect fit to help guide Pillars’ course towards inclusive labor markets.

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Spotlight: Promoting Young Scholars - Ekaterina Prytkova

June 22, 2022

When economists don’t talk to technology specialists, or vice-versa, the results can range from commercially disappointing to downright disastrous. Think of overengineered cars or planes that flopped in the marketplace, or of recent tragic failures in aircraft safety when bean counters prevailed over engineers.

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Spotlight: Promoting Young Scholars - Giulio Vannelli

May 04, 2022

Since he decided to go into Economics, Giulio Vannelli always had globalisation in his mind, in particular its core element, global value chains. That’s what he devoted his PhD thesis to, at the University of Trento last year, examining “Economic development in a globalised world: the role of Global Value Chains”. The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, honoured him with a PhD scholarship to this end.

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

March 21, 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.

Education, Skills and Worker Retraining
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Delphi Survey on Future Trends in Automation Technologies

March 17, 2022

PILLARS will run a global Delphi survey to gather different views on the future trends in emerging automation technologies, the industries that will adopt them and the tasks they will perform. To that purpose, we want to hear from technology experts in business, workers’ associations, inventors, researchers, and civil society organizations.

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Spotlight: Promoting Young Scholars - Ana Oliveira

March 16, 2022

Ana Oliveira joined the Pillars Team at UNU-MERIT in February 2022. Get to know her.

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Conference on Education, Skills, and Worker Retraining

January 17, 2022

We are pleased to announce the 1st PILLARS Conference on Education, Skills, and Worker Retraining on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 February 2022.

Please note that due to the current Covid situation the conference will run in an online format and the dates have been changed to Thursday 17 and Friday 18 February 2022.

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Spotlight: Promoting Young Scholars - Christina Langer

December 02, 2021
One of the things PILLARS takes pride in is in promoting young talent. This month the spotlight is on Christina Langer, a scholar at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
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Fast-Five with PILLARS Coordinator Oliver Falck

November 22, 2021

PILLARS coordinator, Oliver Falck, explains what prompted the creation of yet another labour market think-tank.

Given the many think-tanks and research organisations devoted to labour, why Pillars? What is the rationale behind its creation?

Coordinator Oliver Falck
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Video Introduction of PILLARS

June 23, 2021

The main objective of the Horizon2020 project PILLARS is to provide policy makers and the public with information about what kind of (new) skills will be in demand and how to revise education and training systems to create the opportunities to acquire them. See Prof Oliver Falck and Prof Maria Savona explain how we are doing that in this introduction video. 

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Join the Expert Group on Future Technologies, Skills and Inclusive Labour Markets of the PILLARS project!

April 29, 2021

What is the Expert Group on Future Technologies, Skills and Inclusive Labour Markets? It is YOUR opportunity to engage with key policy makers in the government, academia, industry and civil society sectors, as well as, with the PILLARS project team to support the development of inclusive and evidence-based labour market policies.

Expert Group on Future Technologies, Skills and Inclusive Labour Markets- sign up: pillars@ifo.de
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