Jobs and Skills
“The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.” - John Maynard Keynes
The Jobs & Skills Unit performs research on labour markets, education and social policy topics, to examine the impact of the main societal transitions – social, ecological, technological, demographic, skills-related and geographical – in the EU.
CEPS Staff involved
Next is the list of our inhouse experts working in this unit.
Dr. Cinzia Alcidi is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)…
Caterina Astarita is Associate Research Fellow in the Jobs and Skills Unit at CEPS. She…
Davide Monaco is a Research Fellow at CEPS, where he works on issues related to…
Alba Morón Cabrera is a transversal Project Officer working as part of the ERCC unit…
Dr. Laura Nurski is an Associate Research Fellow and Head of Programme on Future of Work at…
Alexandre Ounnas is a Research Fellow in the Job and Skills Unit at CEPS. Alexandre…
Related Events
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Related Expert commentaries
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In recent weeks, headlines have taken a sharp turn, with Anthropic’s CEO warning that AI could eliminate half of all…
In the wake of the Draghi report and the EU Competitiveness Compass, ‘competitiveness’ is again dominating debates about the present…
Skills have become a central pillar in policy discussions on the future of work. Since the 2000 Lisbon Strategy, the…
Work in the platform economy – or the ‘gig economy’ – is on the rise. The EU’s platform economy, which…
The impacts of lockdowns in response to the Covid-19 outbreak have been asymmetric across different economic sectors, depending on the…
Digitalisation is drastically changing labour markets, and some studies suggest that people with disabilities could be primary beneficiaries. One key…
The CEPS Ideas Lab is an innovative platform of exchange and co-creation that brings together think tanks from across Europe,…
Related Publications
Here are the latest publications related to this topic.
Generative AI and the future of work global dialogue: perceptions and prospects
Roundtables in Asia, Europe, and Latin America
How can Early Childhood Education and Care policies empower citizens?
Recommendations for an effective EU agenda
Developments along the route
The role of transit countries in shaping mixed-migration flows to Europe
Talent Partnerships and future skills needs
Fostering collaboration on human capital development in the Mediterranean
A renewed EU approach for Jobs and Skills
Towards a Resilient and Sustainable Post-Pandemic RecoveryWorking Group Report of the New Industrial Strategy for Europe Task Force
Towards a resilient and sustainable post-pandemic recovery (executive summary)
The New Industrial Strategy for Europe
Shaping return to work policy
The role of industrial relations at national and company level - Country report for Belgium
Shaping return to work policy
Current involvement and future potential of EU social dialogue
Related Projects
Here are the latest projects by this unit.
For the last two decades, European countries have faced unprecedented structural changes due to digitalisation, automation; the internationalisation of the…
The European Union lacks a coordinated approach to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). This has led to a fragmented…
The EU faces numerous interconnected challenges to maintaining a social and inclusive Europe, with key transformations reshaping the socio-economic landscape…
The emergence of powerful generative AI systems prompted a reconsideration of many previous findings and predictions. A recent study observed…
The interest in the quality of traineeships has been regaining momentum in recent years. As in the aftermath of the…
The EU-funded EUSOCIALCIT project reviews policies to boost European social citizenship. It develops a resource-based, multi-level concept of social rights…
I SKILL is a research project to study how industrial relations and social dialogue can drive progress in adult learning…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been deep and wide. In spite of unprecedented efforts to understand the COVID-19…
‘BFORE: Bargaining for Equality - Strengthening collective bargaining systems to ensure fair wages and address income inequality in Europe’ is…
GI-NI aims to contribute to an inclusive Europe of shared prosperity, by providing a better understanding of the changes and…
The overarching objectives of this study are to both quantitatively estimate the impact of the digital transformation on employment, earnings,…
VIRAGE aims to study how industrial relations and social dialogue can shape progress towards the achievement of gender equality in…
The overarching purpose of this study is to investigate developments in upward convergence, between EU Member States and regions, for…
Agriculture is an important economic sector in EU. It produces around 1.5% of the total EU output and employs around…
Referring to the increasingly challenging EU2020‐ambitions of Inclusive Growth , the objectives of the InGRID‐2project are to advance the integration…
The project “Negotiating return to work in the age of demographic change through industrial relations (REWIR)”, brings together research on…
The current European Expert Network on Economics of Education (EENEE) can soon look back at 13 years of excellent advice…
The World Employment Confederation-Europe and UNI Europa, in the context of their updated work programme for the sectoral social dialogue…
The objective of this study is to collect and annotate publicly accessible data on digital labour platforms workers. The relevant…
The Directorate general for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) has commissioned Centre for European Policy…
This project has been commissioned by DG EMPL to map the opportunities and challenges for micro and small enterprises in…
The Mercator Dialogue on Migration and Asylum (MEDAM) is three-year research and consultation project that aims to identify and close…
Bringing together five consortium partners, the EESDA project, implemented during 2017-2019, advances the current knowledge and expertise on the articulation…
The Index of Readiness for Digital Lifelong Learning (IRDLL) is the result of a collaboration between CEPS and Grow with…
The project was coordinated by GEOPA-COPA ( Employers’ Group of Professional Agricultural Organisations in the European Union) with the support…
The “Study to gather evidence on the working conditions of platform workers” funded by the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs…
This project was an extension of the previous project conducted with Eurofound called “Exploring the employment and working conditions related…
This study consists of a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the application of the super simplified reporting regime for micro…
Over the past few decades, new digital platforms such as China’s Alibaba, Japan’s Rakuten and the U.S.’s eBay have grown…
This project was made for the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU. It investigated the effects of digitalisation…
The IRSDACE project funded by DG EMPL of the European Commission aimed at increasing the knowledge on the collaborative economy…
The IPEPS project aims at complementing degree-level programmes led by Universities by enriching the background knowledge that students acquire in…
This project was a contribution to Eurofound’s research activities on ‘work and employment in the digital age’ as outlined in…
European air travel has witnessed a tremendous evolution since the late 1990s following the liberalisation process, with many new entrants…
CEPS was commissioned to perform the study-project “Online talent platforms, labour market intermediaries and the changing world of work”, which…
RESL.eu was a FP7-funded research project dedicated to Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe. The RESL.eu project presented a comprehensive,…
STYLE was an FP7-funded research project. Its aim was to provide a comprehensive understanding of the causes of very high…
Digitalisation is transforming business landscapes and the world of work, and redefining the boundaries of production, consumption and distribution. This…
The platform economy has become an important consideration within the European Commission’s Digital Economy agenda. The Joint Research Centre and…
Through scientific research, stakeholder engagement and dissemination, MoPAct advanced the knowledge base required in promoting the formulation and implementation of…
The InGRID project was funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration and involved…
SIMPACT was a FP7-funded research project. With its 11 partners from nine European countries, it advanced understanding of social innovation’s…
The aim of the study was to assess the legal and operational feasibility of introducing a European unemployment benefits scheme…
On the request of DG Grow of the European Commission, CEPS carried out an analysis on the impact of the…
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) requested CEPS to conduct an analysis of an online labour platform in the field of…
NEUJOBS was a research project financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. The project consisted of 29…
Related Task Forces
Here are the latest task forces organised by this unit.
Almost three years ago, the European Commission launched a comprehensive and aspirational New Industrial Strategy for Europe that highlighted its…
On 10 March 2020, just as the Covid-19 pandemic was really starting to hit Europe, the European Commission launched…
Faced with the prospect of a long-lasting and traumatic Covid-19 pandemic, we at CEPS decided to step up our efforts…
The overall level of education and more precisely the skills, abilities and creativity of European citizens constitute a key determinant…
CEPS Task Force Report: A New European Agenda for Labour Mobility Author: Anna Turmann Among the big issues facing the…
No final report published. The process of ageing of the population will present new and big challenges to the whole…
CEPS Task Force Report: Cross-Border Portability of Pension Rights: An Important Condition for an Integrated Market for Pension Provision Author:…