Measures to Prevent Shortage of Skilled Labour: A Comparative Study

The aim of the project is to conduct a comparative study of how different countries address the shortage of skilled labour, how they design measures, and how these measures function.

One of the challenges is to understand how future needs of skills will change, and how to ensure that both the education system and systems for continuing and further education can meet businesses’ future competence requirements.

The study, that covers Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Ireland, and can be divided into three main thematic sections:

1. How are current and future competence needs measured and understood, and how is this information communicated to relevant stakeholders?
2. What measures are implemented to ensure that education, continuing and further education, and reallocation meet the competence needs of businesses (skills policy)?
3. What measures are taken to recruit labour from abroad and to increase national labour force participation (labour market policy)?