Monitoring of Regional Labour Markets in European States

Regional factors are important for the economy and employment in highly competitive, international markets. As a precondition for the functioning of regional labour markets, adequate information has to be generated and transformed into new knowledge – for all actors involved.

Regional Labour Market Monitoring can be seen as an approach to meet these requirements. A variety of projects in this area have been set up in several European countries. Their common purpose is to develop and implement sets of indicators to measure the current regional labour market and to provide information over its development into the future. Both the regional labour force and business enjoy the benefits from this activity.

This anthology gives an idea of the diversity of European approaches to monitoring of regional labour markets. It renders different concepts and instruments representing the region in which they are used.

Keywords: Labour Market, Monitoring, Regional Economy, Information

The Authors

Dr. Christa Larsen is a social scientist and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK) in Frankfurt am Main. Her current work concentrates on regional labour market monitoring, regionalised analyses of labour markets for health workers, systems for information and diagnoses of labour markets, and regional prognoses.

Waldemar Mathejczyk is a social scientist and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK) in Frankfurt am Main. His research activities are focussed on labour market, safety and health at work, and working conditions. Prof. Dr. Alfons Schmid is Professor for Economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and Scientific Director of the Institute for Economics, Labour, and Culture (IWAK) in Frankfurt am Main. His main areas of research are regional developments of employment and labour market, new information technology and impacts on employment situations, regional competitiveness, and attitudes in the context of welfare state.