NEUJOBS - Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labour market

Tags: international_projects, labour_market, social_development, macroeconomics, structural_modeling, centre_for_european_policy_studies_(ceps), on-going_projects

Launch date: 01.01.2011

NEUJOBS is a research project financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. The objective is to analyse likely future developments in the European labour market(s), in view of four major transitions that will impact employment and European societies in general. The first is the socio-ecological transition: a comprehensive change in the patterns of social organisation and culture, production and consumption that will drive humanity beyond the current industrial model towards a more sustainable future. The second is the societal transition produced by the combination of population ageing, low fertility rates, changing family structures, urbanisation and growing female employment. The third transition concerns new territorial dynamics and the balance between agglomeration and dispersion forces. The fourth is a skills (upgrading) transition and its likely consequences for employment and (in)equality.

NEUJOBS constists of 23 work packages organised in six groups:

- Group 1 provides a conceptualisation of the socio-ecological transition that constitutes the basis for the other work-packages.

- Group 2 considers in detail the main drivers for change and the resulting relevant policies. Regarding the drivers we analyse the discourse on job quality, educational needs, changes in the organisation of production and the employment structure. Regarding relevant policies, research in groups assesses the impact of changes in family composition, the effect of labour relations and the issue of financing transition in an era of budget constraints. The regional dimension is taken into account, also in relation to migration flows.

- Group 3 models economic and employment development on the basis of the inputs provided in the previous work packages.

- Group 4 examines possible employment trends in key sectors of the economy in the light of the transition processes: energy, health care and goods/services for ageing population, care services, housing and transport.

- Group 5 focuses on impact groups, namely those vital for employment growth in the EU: women, the elderly, immigrants and Roma.

- Group 6 is composed of transversal work packages: implications of NEUJOBS findings for EU policy-making, dissemination of project results, project management and coordination.

Project being done for: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

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