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29 juin 2011

Measuring Geographical Mobility in Regional Labour Market Monitoring

http://www.regionallabourmarketmonitoring.net/www.regionallabourmarketmonitoring.net/img/logo_neu.gifAnnual Meeting 2011
The European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring meets once a year. This year it will be hosted by CEPS/Instead in Luxembourg and will be held on October 7, 2011. The topic of the Annual Meeting will be “Measuring Geographical Mobility in Regional Labour Market Monitoring”. Interested persons, institutes and organisations are invited to participate in the conference and the discussion. The Programm of the Annual Meeting is available here.

In the discourses on geographical mobility, regions are rarely present although geographical mobility is relevant for regions and localities. For example, structurally weak areas very often face strong out-migration, especially of young and skilled labour, although these areas have invested a lot of re-sources in training and qualification. This type of intranational/intraregional mobility is true for a lot of rural regions in Western, Southern and Central Europe. It has strong impact on regional labour mar-kets but also on the social systems and the composi-tion of the age structure of the local population. An-other phenomenon occurs in border-regions which can either have a huge influx of labour from neighbouring countries or the opposite with a con-siderable outmigration or outcommuting. This leads to changes in the dynamics of the regional/local labour markets. To develop adequate measures for convincing people to stay in regions or to move to specific localities, it requires transparency on the mobility behaviour of different age and gender groups, sets of professions and persons with differ-ent levels of qualification. Such transparency could be provided with Regional Labour Market Monitoring. However, conceptualising and measuring geographi-cal mobility, especially from a regional or local per-spective is not well established in most regional monitoring systems.
Therefore, the annual meeting 2011 of the European Network of Regional Labour Market Monitoring will provide opportunities to explore and develop the topic further. Best-practice examples and working groups will focus on different aspects of mobility monitoring. The exchange of network members and experts will provide a fertile ground for discussions and the creation of new ideas and concepts of how geographical mobility can be conceptualized and measured with a focus on regional labour markets.
The conference is open to all experts, practitioners and interested persons.

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