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Our track record
Current
and recent projects
Industrial Restructuring in the Accession Countries,
a study to examine past and potential future structural change in the Accession countries with subsequent
evaluation of their impact on employment structures and skill requirements, and to explore the policy
options designed to address labour force adjustment in the light of structural change. The study is being
carried out in collaboration with WIIW, Vienna and DIW, Berlin for DG Employment and Social Affairs and
is due for completion in autumn 2004.
The eLearning Industry and Market in Europe,
working in a consortium headed by the Danish Technological Institute the aim of this project is assess
the main developments and trends in the European e-Learning market since 1998 focusing on both current
EU Member States, Accession countries, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland. It takes a critical look at studies
already carried out in the area and will undertake its own survey of key market players in 2004.
Project covers both education and training sectors and addresses use of ICT in the broad sense.
The project - for DG Education & Culture - is due for completion by the autumn of 2004.
Reporting on vocational education and training: Detailed Thematic Comparative Analysis - Financing - Investment in human resources,
Following up on an initial thematic overview on VET funding for CEDEFOP, this project focuses on the
assessment and validation of data provided by EU Member States, plus Norway and Iceland, with the aim
of producing an accurate and consistent overview of
financing and participation in training programmes across all levels. Project due for completion in August 2004.
Needs of Regions in Current Member States and the Candidate Countries
in Areas that are Eligible for Structural Funds,
A project designed to identify the priorities for support and assistance under the Structural Funds
and in other policy areas. A key area for analysis has been education and training systems in these
countries examining issues related to infrastructure, educational attainment, participation in
education and training. For DG Regional Policy, European Commission
Learning for Employment: the second Report on Vocational Training Policy at European level,
The second policy report on vocational education and training providing not only an update of
developments in this area since the first report but also an analysis of the importance of
training for the achievement of the objectives of the European Employment Strategy, including
an assessment of potential skill shortages in the labour market in future years, based on
projecting the qualifications of young people entering the labour market over the present
decade, on the one hand, and the demand for workers with particular skills, on the other. Published by cedefop in 2004.
Developing a European E-learning Observation System (DELOS),
Preparing for the establishment of a sustainable observation system to accompany the e-Learning Action Plan.
Project carried out as part of MENON network between January 2002 and June 2003. Alphametrics' main role in this
project was helping to research and identify relevant indicators the European e-learning market and to use these
in the design, construction and implementation of an initial version of a database for the system.
Employment in Europe,
the annual report reviewing employment developments and analysing
key labour market issues, published by DG Employment and Social Affairs
of the European Commission. Between 1989 and 2000, Alphametrics was
largely responsible for producing the whole report from helping to
identify the issues to be covered, collecting the data and processing
and analysing this, though preparing the graphs, tables and maps and
drafting the text, to designing the page page-layouts, making the
films for the printer and organising the translations into all 11
Community languages
E-learning and training in Europe, a report published by Cedefop
in February 2002, assessing the availability of existing data on the
use of ICT in vocational training and professional development and
the feasibility of compiling reliable data on an ongoing basis, the
core of which was on-line survey of organisations involved in vocational
training in different EU countries
E-Learning in Europe 2002, A follow-up to, and extension of,
a similar survey conducted for CEDEFOP in 2001, based on replies to
a detailed questionnaire received from around 650 organisations
located both in the European Union and the candidate countries in
central and eastern Europe. Main areas of inquiry include: distinction
by subject area of training delivery by traditional classroom methods
versus e-Learning or blended learning; means of access to e-Learning
by type of technology used; revenue and expenditure patterns of both
suppliers and users of training, in general and e-Learning, in particular
over the period 2000 to 2002. Fundamental to the survey was the use of
respondent profiling to enable the key issues to be analysed by a series
of parameters, including by country/geographic region, organisation size
and type and their primary role as either suppliers or users (or both)
in the e-Learning market. The survey report was published in late 2002
and results have been presented at major European e-Learning conferences.
Second Report on Economic and Social Cohesion, published by
DG Regional Policy of the European Commission in 2001, analysing regional
and social disparities and the EU policies for tackling them. Alphametrics
with Applica was involved in the analysis of the economic and social
situation and was responsible for editing the whole report, together
with the production of graphs, maps and tables and the design of the
page layout
An Age of Learning: vocational training policy at European level,
the first report on policy developments across the EU published by
Cedefop (the European Centre for research on vocational training)
in 2001. Alphametrics was responsible for the analysis of developments
in vocational training systems in EU countries and for the underlying
economic and social analysis.
A database of labour market policy measures, a coherent system
developed for Eurostat (the EU Statistical Office) for storing
details of national policies and for evaluating their effectiveness.
The database is constructed, on the basis of coherent methodology,
formulated by Alphametrics, to include data on both expenditure and
participants in programmes at a high level of detail, in order to
be able to follow individuals with different characteristics as they
are assisted by measures of various kinds and subsequently proceed
on to the labour market to seek employment.
Social Protection in Europe, the periodic reports on developments
in social welfare systems in the EU published by DG Employment and
Social Affairs of the European Commission in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
and 2001. Applica with Alphametrics was responsible for analysing
the main features of policy changes and trends in expenditure on social
protection as well as in the sources of finance.
Employment Observatory on Central and Eastern Europe, produced
biannually in the early years of the transition of these countries
to market economies to monitor employment and related developments.
Alphametrics was responsible for all aspects of the production of
the bulletin, including organising the team of national experts who
reviewed what was happening in their own countries. The bulletin became
the leading source of information on employment developments in Central
and Eastern Europe during the early years of the transition and was
widely used by international organisations, including the OECD and
ILO, banks and multinational companies, as well as policy advisers
and academics both in the countries themselves and in the rest of
the world.
Men and women in Europe, 10 bulletins and a Panorama, published
by Eurostat during 2001 and 2002, on the position of women and men
in different areas of their economic and social lives Applica with
Alphametrics is responsible for undertaking all the tasks involved
in the preparation of the publications, from helping to select the
themes to be covered and the analysis of these to the design of the
page layouts.
Industrial Relations in Europe, the first and second reports,
published by DG Employment in 2000 and 2002, reviewing developments
and related employment issues in this area. Alphametrics with Applica
was responsible for the statistical analysis included in the reports.
An index of labour market adaptability for EU Member States, the
US and Japan, a study directed by Alphametrics in 2001 involving
leading economists from every EU country as well as from the US and
Japan, analysing key aspects of the capacity of labour markets across
Europe and in the US and Japan to adapt to major economic, social,
demographic and technological changes, including examination of labour
supply availability, the skills of the work force, labour mobility,
the flexibility of working time arrangement, wages, employment protection
legislation, social welfare systems, and the structure of industrial
relations.
Analytical and statistical tools for monitoring EU tax/benefits
systems, compilation of a set of indicators which together can
be used to measure the combined effect of tax and benefit systems
in Member States on the incentive to work and on the willingness of
employers to take on labour. A joint project undertaken by Alphametrics
with the EUROMOD team of the Department of Applied Economics, University
of Cambridge and national experts in each of the EU Member States
for DG-Employment and Social Affairs in 2001 and 2002.
Monitoring of integration of beneficiaries of active labour market
policy measures, an analysis for DG Employment and Social Affairs
of existing monitoring systems in Member States, with the aim of identifying
examples of good practice and defining measures of effective integration,
as well as ways of constructing output indicators for use in the monitoring
of national employment policies, conducted in 2001 and 2002.
Vocational Education and Training Policy Developments at the European
Level: An Analysis of the Impact of VET on the European Employment
Strategy as revealed by the National Action Plans for employment (NAPs)
and vocational education and training statistics. For CEDEFOP, Thessaloniki,
2000-2001.
Data analysis supplement to the Cedefop synthesis report on the
funding of vocational education and training in the European Union,
an analysis of expenditure on and participation in initial, continuing
and labour market training, produced for Cedefop, 2001.
Selected
projects carried out in earlier years
Policies for balanced economic development in an integrating Community,
for the Economic and Monetary Committee of the European Parliament
and presented at a conference in the Parliament in 1991).
The computing needs of labour offices in Bulgaria, a study
for DG-I under the PHARE programme, 1991/92.
The implications of EMU for employment and real income (report
for DG Employment and Social Affairs, 1992).
Growth and employment in the European Community, a study for
the Socialist Group of the European Parliament and presented at a
conference in the Parliament in 1993)
Europe 2000, a review of issues affecting land-use in the Community
in the 1990s, also published in all nine Community languages, with
graphics and maps in full colour, published in 1991.
Competitiveness and cohesion: trends in the regions, the Fifth
Periodic Report on regional developments in the Community, published
in 1994,
Europe 2000+: cooperation for European territorial development,
an update of the Europe 2000 report, with the extensive use of full-colour
maps to illustrate features of spatial development in the European
Union and in neighbouring countries, published in 1994.
The employment consequences of caring, an extensive analysis
of the effects of caring on employment and the policies in force in
different EU countries for addressing these, for DG Employment and
Social Affairs, 1995.
The implications for employment in Europe of the changing pattern
of trade and production in the global economy, a report directed
by Alphametrics and produced by an international team of economists
on the consequences of the development of the South-East Asian economies
in particular on the EU economies, produced in 1995 and 1996.
Wage dispersion in the European Union, statistical annex to
the DG for Employment and Social Affairs report on Equitable Wages,
1996.
First Report of Economic and Social Cohesion, an analysis of
regional disparities across the Union and of the performance of EU
structural policy in addressing these, together with the editing of
the report, for DG Regional Policy in 1996.
An analysis of ECHP data from a gender perspective, produced
by Alphametrics and Applica for DG Employment and Social Affairs in
1999 and including examination of differences between men and women
in earnings and access to training and the availability of child-care
facilities.
Sixth Periodic Report on the socio-economic situation of the regions
in the Union, an analysis of regional developments in the Union,
published in 1999
European Spatial Development Perspective, the preparation of
analysis of the possibilities for regional cooperation and the organisation
of seminars and meetings for DG Regional Policy of the European Commission
during 1998 and 1999.
Earnings differentials between men and women, an analysis of
disparities in wages between men and women and the underlying reasons
for these, for DG Employment and Social Affairs, 1998Selected information
and analysis systems
In addition to the Labour Market policy database and the system
for monitoring structural change described above, Alphametrics has
constructed a number of systems for managing data. These include:
The implementation and maintenance of a multi-dimensional database
and associated website to provide information support for DG Employment
and Social Affairs in order to facilitate the monitoring and analysis
of employment and related developments.
The implementation of an integrated labour market information system
for the Research Centre for Equal Opportunities in Athens, Greece,
funded by the EU under the NOW Initiative, to store data relevant
to the position of women in the work force and to enable these to
be readily extracted and analysed.
The development of a specialised database system for a new association
(CERRM) established in France to help regions and local authorities
restructure local economies and create new employment opportunities,
enabling details of available experts in this area to be matched with
needs.
Old-age replacement ratios, a computer model of the retirement
pension and fiscal system developed in 1997-98, enabling net income
of those who have retired from working to be compared with the income
received when in employment, designed to be capable of being used
and updated in Eurostat (Eurostat, 1997-98).
An analytical model of the world economy, incorporating the
main linkages between economies in different parts of the world and
capable of generating alternative scenarios of global economic developments
in order to assess their implications for growth and employment in
Europe and elsewhere
Animated presentations of employment trends and developments in
Europe shown at the annual Employment Week in Brussels
Animated presentation of Competitiveness and cohesion: trends in
the regions for DG Regional Policy to be shown at conferences
and meetings.
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