EN RLMM
EN RLMM
European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring

Publications

Making research and application in the field of regional/local labour market internationally visible

Since 2007 every year, the members of the EN RLMM work on a common topic with the aim to further our approaches to labour market monitoring. Around November and December of each year, a Call for Papers (CfP) is issued that announces the topic of the following year for the anthology and the annual meeting. Everybody is invited to participate and answer the CfP.

Anthologies

2025

Anticipation of Future Developments in Labour Markets: Methods, Data and Practices of Knowledge Transfer in Regions and Localities Across Europe and Beyond

Rapid technological change, green and digital transitions, and demographic shifts are reshaping labour markets across regions in Europe and beyond. Anticipating these developments is crucial for effective policy responses at the local level. This volume presents methods, data, and knowledge transfer practices used to forecast regional and local labour market trends. Drawing on the EN RLMM network, 31 experts share approaches to strengthen foresight capacities and support evidence-based planning in increasingly complex and dynamic labour market environments.
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2024

Shortages of Skilled and Unskilled Labour: Insights and Evidence to Inform Strategies Relevant to Regional and Local Labour Markets and Labour Market Observatories.

Shortages of “skilled” and “unskilled” labour are continuously increasing in most regions and localities across Europe. This is now taking on a different character. Previous developments in regional and local labour markets followed business cycles, allowing the shortages of “skilled” employees to relax and lessen within short periods. Now the signs are pointing to an everincreasing shortage of “skilled” labour. Even among “unskilled” labour the shortage of workers has risen and is constantly increasing. The resulting problem is quantitative in nature as, due to demographic developments in most European states, more employees are leaving working life due to age than young individuals are entering employment. This results in a steadily shrinking potential of labour.
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2023

Pathways of Greening Labour Markets. Opportunities and Challenges for Regional and Local Labour Market Observation in Europe and Beyond

The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is one of the main long-term policy goals of the European Union and individual European states. This is impacting on a broad range of political activities and policies as it is defined in particular by the environmental taxonomy regulation of the EU.

This green transformation will affect a lot of areas of the labour market, requiring new skills and qualifications and impacting the nature and geographic location of employer demand. Considering the importance of this new ‘industrial revolution’, the topic for the next anthology of papers, published annually by the EN RLMM, is „Pathways of Greening Labour Markets. Opportunities and Challenges for Regional and Local Labour Market Observation in Europe and beyond ”.
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Working Papers

2016

EN RLMM Working Paper No. 2: Lessons for Local and Regional Skills Forecasting Arising from the Work of the EN RLMMM in Relation to the EU Skills Panorama

 This paper seeks to identify lessons arising for local and regional forecasting systems that have been identified through the work of the EU funded project ARLI (The EU-Skills Panorama: Achieving Regional and Local Impact). The project’s aim was to influence the development of the EU Skills Panorama and was, unusually, particularly close to ongoing European Commission activity with strong links into the relevant Directorate. The EU Skills Panorama was envisaged initially as the EU portal providing information about recent and future trends in labour market and skill needs. This was failing to make a significant impact, and the project sought to nuance where and how it could evolve to help inform the work of experts at the regional and local levels. This involved interrelating the EU Skills Panorama content and approach with that of local and regional LMI experts with the intention of achieving greatly enhanced impact and added value for all concerned.
A further aim was to explore how existing regional and local provision of skills forecasting could be enhanced for stakeholders. This issue was addressed through a good practice approach as well as interrelation with the EU Skills Panorama.
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2014

EN RLMM Working Paper No. 1: The Directions of the Development of the VET System in Poland

 The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the evolution, the current state and the perspectives of the vocational education and training (VET) system in Poland. In the period of the economic slowdown in Poland and the Financial and Sovereign Debt Crisis in several EU Member States, the need for structural reforms, including the reform of the vocational education and training is becoming increasingly important. Therefore, in the paper the special attention has been paid to the links between the education and labour markets in view of the signalled difficulties in smoothing the transition of VET graduates from schooling to work. The paper identifies the needs of Polish employers in relation to vocational training and puts forward some propositions for policy makers in order to improve the employability of VET graduates.
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