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Skills, not job titles, are the new metric for the labour market

July 8, 2019 by World Economic Forum Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Jian Lu, President, LinkedIn China The rise of tech is currently transforming the labour market, leading to the automation of some jobs and tasks on the one hand and the emergence of new kinds on the other. Proactively […]

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SMEs are driving job growth, but need higher investment in skills, innovation and tech to boost wages and productivity

May 21, 2019 by OECD Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you in association with OECD. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been a significant driver of employment growth in recent years, mainly through the creation of new firms, including in high-growth sectors such as information and communication technologies (ICT). But the new OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Outlook highlights that most SME […]

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Governments should step up their efforts to give people skills to seize opportunities in a digital world

May 9, 2019 by OECD Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you in association with OECD. Governments must urgently step up their efforts to improve their education and training policies to help more people reap the benefits of the digital transformation and to reduce the risk of automation widening inequalities and driving unemployment, according to a new OECD report. The OECD Skills Outlook […]

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Boosting adult learning essential to help people adapt to future of work

February 18, 2019 by OECD Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you in association with OECD. Many OECD countries need to urgently scale-up and upgrade their adult learning systems to help people adapt to the future world of work, according to a new OECD report. Getting Skills Right: Future-Ready Adult Learning Systems says that new technologies, globalisation and population ageing are changing […]

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Why do overwhelming proportions of EU’s youth feel excluded?

May 16, 2016 by Dennis Kefalakos 1 Comment

The Eurobarometer, the public opinion analysis tool of the European Commission, interviewed 10,294 Europeans aged between 16 and 30 in the 28 EU member states between 9 and 25 April 2016, and found that most of them feel economically and socially marginalized by the crisis. Of course, there are incredible differences among the member state countries, […]