Presentation by Francesca FROY, Advisor to the OECD LEED Programme from the OECD capacity building seminar “A workforce for the future - Designing strong local strategies for better jobs and skills”, 28-29 Nov 2017, Venice, Italy.
More information: http://oe.cd/CBSVenice2018
3. Higher educational attainment brings greater
employment opportunities…
3
Source: OECD Education at a glance, 2015
How many are employed?
>80% of tertiary-educated
people
>70% of people with upper
secondary or post-secondary
non-tertiary education
<60% of people with below
upper secondary education.
Why are tertiary level skills
so highly valued?
Knowledge
economy
Globalisation
Technological
change
Increasing complexity
of products and
services
4. Labour market polarisation, 1995-2015
80% replaced by high-skilled jobs (‘complex cognitive tasks not frequently repeated’, 20%
by low-skilled jobs (jobs requiring hand-eye coordination or human-centred tasks)
-15
-10
-5
0
5
10
15
France United
Kingdom
Italy OECD
Average
Germany United
States
Canada Japan
High skill Middle skill Low skill
Source: Employment Outlook 2017
5. 5Source: OECD Survey of Adult Skills Survey, 2016a (215,000 people in 33 countries)
6. 0 20 40 60 80 100
Ireland
Netherlands
Spain
UK
Czech Republic
Finland
Belgium
Slovenia
Italy
Slovak Republic
France
Norway
Canada
United States
OECD (27)
Austria
Sweden
Poland
Switzerland
Australia
Germany
Hungary
New Zealand
Turkey
Mexico
Greece
Japan
% of firms reporting difficulties filling jobs due
to lack of available talent
Source: Manpower talent Shortage Survey, 2015
Across OECD countries, 35% of firms report
difficulties in hiring.
United States: 32%.
Japan: 83%
Germany: 46%
UK: 14%
……..even in countries with high
unemployment rate (e.g. Greece, Italy)
12. What types of skill?
• Replacement demand for technicians only just below that of
professionals, 2015-2025
Expected change 2015-
2025 in EU28+, CEDEFOP,
Future Skills Needs in
Europe 2016
14. Should skills be geared to local labour
markets?
• Focusing on local clusters
e.g. New Jersey Talent
Networks
• The importance of
engaging employers -
• employer-led training e.g.
Irish skills nets
• Promoting transferability,
building upon talent and
supporting diversification
Transportation, distribution, logistics:
one of 16 US DoE Career Clusters
18. Managing flows
• What about mobility? Should local areas be
attracting and retaining talent?
– Integrating immigrants - not just about
unemployment, but underemployment
• Are skills wasted because they do not reach
the labour market?
– A key element of inclusive growth strategies
– Thinking longer term – tackling intergenerational
exclusion
20. Managing flows
• What about mobility? Should local areas be
attracting and retaining talent?
– Integrating immigrants - not just about
unemployment, but underemployment
• Are skills wasted because they do not reach
the labour market?
– A key element of inclusive growth strategies
– Thinking longer term – tackling intergenerational
exclusion
29. Product market strategies and the design of
services
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• OECD innovation strategy: Toner (2011) the value
of incremental innovation - creating a learning
environment (discretion, problem solving, learning-
by-doing, understanding how your task relates to
others, absorption capacity)
• Boosting product market strategies (Ashton and
Sung, 2011) and re-defining services (Buchanan,
2010)
• The influence of institutional logics (Ashton and
Sung forthcoming)
31. The future – will the way that skills are
managed change?
• ‘My father had one job in
his life, I’ve had six in mine,
my kids will have six at the
same time’ – The Guardian,
2015
• Post-managerial labour
markets?
• Loss of jobs through
automation – only 10%?
(OECD). Role of universal
basic income guarantees?Source: Frank Neffke
…a substantial alteration of the framework of opportunities and
threats faced by workers of different kinds (Lloyd, 2016)
32. The revised OECD Job Strategy (May
2018)
• First launched 1994, reassessed 2006
• 3 overarching objectives:
– 1) Increased labour market participation, job
creation and job quality
– 2) A fairer distribution of opportunities and
outcomes
– 3) More resilient and adaptable labour markets
35. Why join up policies?
Strategy: Tackling complex
problems at the level of
communities
Delivery: Tackling complex
problems at the level of
individuals