May 2023

Pillars

Pathways to Inclusive Labour Markets

Insight
Like Christmas Come Early
Nobel laureate James Heckman once wrote that preschool education improves cognitive and social outcomes later in life, boosting career earnings. Now, research by a Pillars team shows that acquisition of skills early in a career life also leads to significantly higher earnings—throughout the entire working life. Check out this Pillars Insight to see which skills are pivotal, and why Germany’s vocational education system has been so good at taking advantage of this to create a high-quality workforce that is well equipped with the skills that are in most demand.

AI and New Data Tools
A Great New Labour Market Tool
A Pillars team fed algorithms they developed to an AI to combine the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills with the European Commission’s ESCO project. The result? An invaluable map of professional skills’ supply and demand across countries. And the best thing? It’s free and available to anyone and everyone.

Spotlight
Nina Czernich
If the White House has its Chief of Staff and Germany’s Chancellery its Head of the Chancellery, Pillars has Nina Czernich. She runs the show here. Knows what everyone is working on, knows how to keep the various teams around the globe delivering results, knows how to best bring their insights to their intended audiences. And if anything at Pillars gets done, a workshop or a major conference, it is because she was the chief tactician and strategist behind it all. She is the pillar of Pillars.

Workshop Report
How Novel Ways of Leveraging Data Help Reveal Future Skills Needs
Two heavyweights in labour market research—Pillars and the ifo Institute— plus the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria, the foremost organisation with hands-on experience in what skills firms really need, got together to discuss the latest findings with representatives of industry, public administration and politics, regarding how data can be leveraged to ascertain not only the state of skills availability, but also which skills will be needed in the future. Read the workshop report here

Pillars Research Findings
Adjusting to Automation
The effects of automation on jobs and wages are undeniable, but they vary quite a bit from region to region. What drives this diversity is not clear, though, which makes devising suitable policies difficult. A Pillars team around Fabien Petit has come to the rescue with research that sheds light on the issue, uncovering what determines such heterogeneity in the adjustments to automation.

Survey
Join the Crowd
Call it a kind of crowd sourcing. The goal? To build up collective intelligence on how digital automation technologies will shape jobs, firms and industries in the near future. The tool for this is a Pillars survey aimed at bringing together thousands of selected technology specialists, managers, scientists and experts from civil society and policy to share their expertise through the platform. So, join the crowd to make sure your views help to shape decision-making in the global tech landscape. More on the survey in this short video. And, if you want the survey directly in your inbox, contact pillars@merit.unu.edu.

All Aboard

Our Partner Institutions
From the Americas through Europe to Asia, ten institutions are combining their strengths to plough new ground on what the future brings to, and what it calls for, global and local labour markets.

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

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