Skills for competitiveness: Finding the right path to quality job creation Sylvain Giguère, Head of the OECD LEED Division World Trade Organisation, 9 July 2013
Skills as a driver of growth Building a pool of skilled labour … flexibly to match emerging needs while helping the low-skilled to access jobs and progress …and ensuring skills are fully utilised
The quality job agenda SKILLS GAPS AND HIGH SKILL SHORTAGES EQUILIBRIUM Skills demand LOW SKILL SKILLS SURPLUS EQUILIBRIUM Skills supply
The real meaning of joining up 4
East Midlands, 2011 1 0.8 0.6 Derby 0.4 Leicestershire & Rutland South Nottinghamshire 0.2 South & West Derbyshire Northamptonshire 0 Lincolnshire -1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 East Derbyshire Nottingham -0.2 North Nottinghamshire Leicester -0.4 -0.6 -0.8 -1
East Midlands, 2001 1 0.8 0.6 Derby 0.4 Leicestershire & Rutland South Nottinghamshire Northamptonshire 0.2 South & West Derbyshire North Nottinghamshire 0 -1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Lincolnshire -0.2 Nottingham Leicester -0.4 East Derbyshire -0.6 -0.8 -1
The labour market today: Unemployment rate 2011
The labour market tomorrow: Skills demand and supply balance 2011
… and the effort to get there: Skills balance, variation 2001 - 2011
What needs to be done • Break down the policy silos: Align employment and training to economic development – and vice versa • Capacity, and willingness, to broaden the employment and training agenda: role of employment services, colleges & universities, VET • Local flexibility in managing employment and training programmes • Mutual horizontal accountability
Conclusions • Skills utilisation should be a strategic priority as part of our responses to the job crisis • Strong implications for policy and guidance to institutions • Strong governance implications: local dimension is key, policy flexibility, capacities
Thank you sylvain.giguere@oecd.org www.oecd.org/cfe/leed
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