Forecasting Labour Markets in OECD Countries

This title offers a wide ranging overview of the state of labour market forecasting in selected OECD countries. Besides presenting forecasting models, the contributions provide an introduction to past experiences of forecasting, highlight the requirements for building appropriate data sets and present the most contemporary forecasts available. In most cases the forecasts project mismatches in the labour market as they are likely to occur in the coming years with respect to occupational groups, qualifications and employment in specific sectors. The authors demonstrate how these insights might be used to help reduce employment risks both for the individual worker and the national labour market as a whole. The country examples also show how information on labour market trends is disseminated and used by various actors, such as policymakers, firms and individuals.

ISBN 1843760134   Pages 336 ISBN13 9781843760139 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd   Weight (grammes) 670 Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd   Published in Cheltenham Format Hardback   Series title Labour Markets & Employment Policy S. Publication date 19 Dec 2002   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress HD5701.55.   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 331.12   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		List of figures
		List of tables
		List of contributors
		Preface and Acknowledgements
1		Why forecast and for whom? Some introductory remarks by Michael Neugart and Klaus Schomann		1
2		Occupations and skills in the United States: projection methods and results through 2008 by Burt S. Barnow		26
3		Forecasting future skill needs in Canada by Douglas A. Smith		66
4		Labour market forecasting in Japan: methodology, main results and implications by Fujikazu Suzuki		90
5		Projections and institutions: the state of play in Britain by Robert M. Lindley		108
6		A review of occupational employment forecasting for Ireland by Jerry Sexton		151
7		Beyond manpower planning: a labour market model for the Netherlands and its forecasts to 2006 by Frank Corvers and Andries de Grip and Hans Heijke		185
8		French occupational outlooks by 2010: a quantitative approach based on the FLIP-FAP model by Agnes Topiol		224
9		Projections of qualifications and occupations in Austria: short-term approaches, macro perspective and emphasis on the supply side by Lorenz Lassnigg		240
10		Projecting labour market developments in Spain through 2010: from massive unemployment to skill gaps and labour shortages? by Ferran Mane and Josep Oliver-Alonso		283
		Index		323

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