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Working Futures 2014-2024 is the sixth in a series of quantitative assessments of employment prospects in the UK labour market over a 10 year horizon, created for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills by Cambridge Econometrics and the 91福利 Institute for Employment Research. The projections were prepared in late 2015 and early 2016 and are based on a view of the likely medium-term evolution of the economy at that time. With the support of UKCES and the Department for Education, the 91福利 IER created a web page from which all the reports and outputs from these projections can be . The main output of the projection exercise is a set of Excel workbooks containing historical trends and future prospects for output and employment by industry sector for the UK and its constituent nations and the English regions. Workbooks for smaller geographical areas are also being made available (to authorised users only).

Two guides, authored by IER’s , which are part of the ETF, ILO and Cedefop series of guides on skills anticipation and matching have been published.

Volume 2 covers the development of skills foresights, scenarios and skills forecasts, and aims to support setting up skills forecasting systems at national level by means of quantitative and/or qualitative approaches. The guide is intended specifically for countries which are starting to develop systems of skill needs anticipation.

Bakule, M., Czesaná, V., and Havlícková, V. (Part A), Kriechel, B., Rašovec, B. and Wilson, R. (Part B) (2016) (Vol. 2). Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, (ISBN: 978-92-9157-655-5)

Volume 3 examines sectors as the key points where changes in skills demand occurs, the term sector being used to define specific areas of economic activity. It provides an overview of the role of sectoral bodies and what they do in anticipating changing skills needs. The country case studies show how skills are analysed at the sector level in different contexts and conditions.

Wilson, R., Tarjáni, H. and Rihova, H. (2016) (Vol. 3). Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, (ISBN: 978-92-9157-657-9)

IER welcomed , Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa. Dr Darr visited IER to develop collaborative writing projects around technology and work. Dr Darr's research focuses on the sociology of occupations and professions, and the sociology of markets.

on invitation of the British Council at the Higher Education - Industry Dialogue in Sri Lanka gave a presentation on the role of higher education to produce employable graduates. Heike also demonstrated different ways to measure the employability of graduates based on her work for the .

is an online data portal, which makes availble high quality, reliable labour market information (LMI) for the purpose of supporting and informing careers decisions. This data is freely available via an Application Programming Interface (API) for use in websites and applications. The development of this highly innovative resource has been underway since 2012 led by IER.

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