organise the second conference of its new phase. The Progress DEMPATEM-project

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1 Contents Page Number 11, April 2002 LoWER-conference in Helsinki in May 2002 LoWER conference in Helsinki in May 2002 On Friday 24 and Saturday 25 May 2002, LoWER will 1 organise the second conference of its new phase. The Progress DEMPATEM-project subject is Adapting Education and Training for the 2 Enhancement of Low-Skilled Jobs. It is one of the Program LoWER / ETLA conference in Helsinki network activities undertaken in the 3 area of Contents sessions LoWER/ETLA conference in Helsinki 3 LoWER participants and observers 4 Next LoWER event: Conference on Adapting Education and Training for the Enhancement of Low-Skilled Jobs May 2002 Reserch Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki, Finland Keynote speakers: * Eric Maurin, CREST / INSEE, France Technology, Trade and the Organisation of the firm, Tasks and Skills * Barry McGaw, OECD / DEELSA Lifelong Learning and the Low Skilled * Margaret Stevens, Oxford University, UK The Financing of Training educational and training aspects of the question Can professionalising low-skilled consumer service jobs enhance European job growth? At present this is the key question addressed by the network. The conference is co-organised by the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), which is the basis of Rita Asplund, the LoWER member in Finland. The conference will be held in Helsinki. The overarching objective of the conference is to illuminate various dimensions of the role and impact of education and training on the status and contents of lowskilled jobs on the one hand and on the labour market situation and careers of those occupying such jobs on the other hand. Of particular concern are the opportunities that training and education could offer for the professionalisation of these jobs and the improvement of the quality of their output. Also of concern is the extent to which education and training contribute to the earnings capacity and career perspectives of the low-skilled. The conference will bring together relevant approaches from different disciplines such as inter alia labour or personnel economics, human resources development, organisational change and technological innovation. The issues mentioned above will be discussed in the following six sessions: See page 3 for the program and page 4 for the contents of the sessions. For registering, visit the conference website 1. Skills, Qualifications and the Labour Market 2. Apprenticeship and Vocational Training 3. Training and Mobility 4. Individual Training and Employment Decisions 5. Qualification and the Workplace 6. Employers Training Decisions 1

2 Three keynote speakers will highlight important developments in the area and sketch perspectives for further research. Eric Maurin (CREST / INSEE) will focus on technology, trade and the organization of the firm, regarding the distribution of tasks and skills. Barry McGaw (DEELSA / OECD) will discuss the possibilities of lifelong learning for the low skilled. Margaret Stevens will deal with the financing of training. Up to 60 participants, including researchers and policymakers from government, social partners and other organizations at both the national and international level, are expected to attend for interesting contributions and debates. The conference will end Saturday at about 13: 00 hours. LoWER / ETLA conference Adapting Education and Training for the Enhancement of Low-Skilled Jobs May 2002 Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki Preliminary Programme Friday 24 May 9:00 Registration 9:30 Keynote speech Eric Maurin (CREST /INSEE) Technology, Trade and the Organisation of the Firm, Tasks and Skills 10:30 Session I Skills, Qualifications and the Labour Market 11:30 Session II Apprenticeship and Vocational Training 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Session III Training and Mobility 15:00 Session IV Individual Employment and Training Decisions 16:30 Keynote speech: Barry McGaw (DEELSA / OECD) Lifelong Learning and the Low-Skilled 19:00 Conference Dinner Visit the LoWER website: The site presents an overview of the network membership, its activities, related projects and publications; it links to other institutes and enables downloading Work Plans and LoWER working papers. Saturday 25 May 9:15 Session V Qualification and the Workplace 11:00 Session VI Employers Training Decisions 12:00 Keynote Speech Margaret Stevens The Financing of Training 13:00 Lunch 2

3 LoWER / ETLA Conference Papers to be presented Session I 1 Low-Skilled Workers in Manufacturing and Services in EU member States Andries de Grip & Maarten H. Wolbers 2 Changing Skill Demand and Skill Gaps in Europe: Determinants, Consequences, and Policy Implications Claudio Lucifora, Frederica Origo & Manuela Samek Session II 3 Training Systems and Labor Mobility: a Comparison between Germany and Sweden Thomas Korpi and Antje Mertens 4 The Motivation of Firms to Employ apprentices business Services versus other Sectors in Germany and the Netherlands Wendy Smiths & Thoms Zwick Session III 5 Mobility of Low-Paid Service Sector workers the Role of Education and Training Rita Asplund 6 Employability of the Lower Educated Workforce in manufacturing and the Service Sector Andries de Grip & Joe Sanders Session IV 7 Labour market effects of Apprenticeship Training in Austria Helmut Hofer & Christine Lietz 8 Why Working Part-time? The Effects of Education Pilar Osorno 9 Lower-educated school-leavers on the Dutch Labour Market Patrick van Eijs & Rolf van der Velden Session V 10 Human Capital spillovers in the Workplace: Evidence for the Service Sector in the UK H. Battu, C.L. Belfield & P.J. Sloane 12 Skill Relatives Malcolm Brynin 13 Qualifications, Training and Earnings in the UK Ioannasis Theodossiou Session VI 14 Employer-sponsored Training Veiwed from growth and stabilistion policy perspectives Christina Hakonson, Satu Johanson & Erik Mellander 15 The Role of Training in aproductive Structural Change. An Application to an Economy specialized in Tourism Vicente Ramos, Javier Rey-Maquieira & Maria Tugores Demand Patterns and Employment Growth: Consumption and Services in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States The DEMPATEM research project held an interesting progress meeting in the Maison des Sciences Economiques of Paris-Sorbonne University in March. First encouraging results were informally presented for each of the three analytical fields: consumer household behaviour, production structure and employment. At this stage of the research the discussion naturally focused on the many little, tricky problems of compatibility between the data and the analysis and of comparability across the countries. A few examples. In the consumption analysis the treatment of housing expenditure was an important issue. Housing generally takes a very significant slice of consumer spending, up to one-third for certain groups in particular countries. In spite of the fact that National Accounts provide a rather uniform treatment internationally, especially of the rental value of own housing, the national budget surveys show considerable divergence because of a different treatment. It is essential to be sure about the comparability because as it stands now, the divergence of housing expenditure seems to explain much of the well-known divergence in spending on services as a whole. Services are an important focus of the research project. In addition, there are the well-known problems of the public or private provision of services, e.g. in education or health, which are difficult to trace in an equal fashion in individual household spending. Also, the first results of the input-output analysis of the production structure of the countries appear to put into question the idea of Baumol s law. The growth in services production and employment is not necessarily lowering productivity growth. The next meeting is scheduled for early July in Madrid. Draft papers are expected for the six countries covered by the project on the each of the three topics. 3

4 % consumer spending on housing, provisional estimates (not to be cited) ES FR NL UK US DE ALL person, employed childless couple, employed couple with kids, 1 employed couple with kids, 2 employed other New LoWER publication: The European-American Employment Gap, Wage Inequality, Earnings Mobility and Skill: A Study for France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States Final report to the European Commission Wiemer Salverda, Stephen Bazen and Mary Gregory Published by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs, Brussels, 2001 LoWER Participants and observers Rita Asplund, ETLA, Helsinki, Finland Stephen Bazen, GRAPE, Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux, France Ana Cardoso, Department of Economics, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal Juan Dolado, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain Florentino Felgueroso, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain Mary Gregory, Department of Economics, Oxford University, United Kingdom Andrew Glyn, Department of Economics, Oxford University, United Kingdom Andries de Grip, ROA, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Gerard HugheS, Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland Juan Jimeno, FEDEA, Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain Claudio Lucifora, Insituto di Economia dell Impresa e del Lavoro, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy Steve Machin, University College London, United Kingdom Ive Marx, Centre for Social Policy, UFSIA, Antwerp, Belgium Antje Mertens, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Abigail McKnight, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, United Kingdom Brian Nolan, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland Sophie Ponthieux, INSEE, Paris, France Wiemer Salverda, AIAS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Peter Sloane, Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Ronald Schettkat, Department of Economics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Viktor Steiner, Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftforschung, Mannheim, Germany Ioannis Theodossiou, Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Richard Towers, Low Pay Unit, London, United Kingdom Jonathan Wadsworth, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, United Kingdom Maarten Wolbers, ROA, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands Thomas Zwick, Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftforschung, Mannheim, Germany 4

5 The LoWER NEWSLETTER is published by LoWER and edited by Cees Nierop and Wiemer Salverda. The NEWSLETTER is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the LoWER website. For subscription please contact the editors. Address: European Low- Wage Employment Research Network LoWER, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies AIAS, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 11, 1018 WB AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands. Internetsite: 5