The “Decade of Action” to achieve sustainable development requires an appropriate functionality of regional and local labour markets as primary players of the digital and green transformation towards this shared strategic goal. The digital and green transformation of regional and local labour markets in Europe sets a fundamental orientation towards the future, which at the…

The transformation of regional and local labour markets increased during the Pandemic. State support has an important impact on these developments. Therefore, a state of the art approach will be made and derived from there the challenges for regional and local labour market observatories will be specified.

SMEs as backbone of the European economy have to compete with large companies. Their relevance for the regional and local labour markets is known, but they not very well explored. There exists only a few data so that a systematic monitoring approach need to be discussed.

So far, labour market observatories have mainly focused on monitoring formal employment. However, in many countries shadow economy plays an important role. It is difficult to measure the extent of informal employment as the economic activities carried out outside the norms and institutions take different forms, varying from subsistence farming to freelance work. Among other…

Many European regions and localities experience shortages of skilled labour arising from the growing impact of technological change in conjunction with globalisation and demographic developments. The changing world of work poses new requirements towards the skills  that are needed for acquiring and retaining employability. The Annual Meeting of the EN RLMM explored the transformation of…

In 2017, the Annual Meeting of the EN RLMM took place in Tirana, the capital of the Republic of Albania. It was organised jointly with the GIZ, the German Development Co-operation. There are over 560 regional and local labour market observatories in Europe, which provide reliable and targeted information on the current and future developments in the…

Digitalisation is not a new phenomenon in the world of work—even though in some respect it has revolutionised the world of work in the past decades, it is a process that has followed an evolutionary course for a long period of time. There have been various attempts to assess its effects on labour in terms…

The Annual Meeting of the EN RLMM was concerned with innovative approaches to regional and local labour market monitoring through the use of Big Data. As the definition of Big Data and the opportunities for its utilisation are constantly evolving, it is important to acquire a solid understanding of the issues associated with its possible…

Sustainable economic activities are complex processes: they are often driven by contradictory or conflicting goals and strategies in regard to reaching a balance between economic growth, ecological goals and social concerns. Besides acknowledging the importance of technological and organisational innovations in these dynamic processes, the sustainability discourses are increasingly concerned with human resources. They address the…