A New Initiative: Adapting to Changing Skills Needs

By Glenda Quintini. To launch this project, the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs is hosting a meeting of experts from several countries and fields of expertise today to explore novel ways to measure skill needs.  Participants include representatives from national governments (the United Kingdom’s Migration Advisory Committee, the French Ministry of Employment, the Bank of Spain and South Africa’s Department of Higher Education and Training), academics (Oxford Economics, the University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam Business School) and experts from the private sector (Burning Glass, a U.S. firm that collects job market data in real time). More...