Skills and Learning Intelligence Module
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Explore employment data, skill shortage impacts, and productivity gaps in skilled trades, analyze workforce shifts and qualifications, and address aging workforce challenges in the South West UK.
Skills and Learning Intelligence Module
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Skills and Learning Intelligence Module • Ben Neild • SLIM - Manager • Marchmont Observatory • b.neild@exeter.ac.uk www.swslim.org.uk Helpdesk - 01392 264850
Employment in Skilled Trades Overall decline in employment - 196,000 Jobs from 1999 to 2010
Occupational changes 1998-2009 Source: DfEE, Labour Market and Skills Trends, 1998/99
Employment Growth Population Growth
Migration • Net in-migration to the South West is forecast at c25,000 per annum to 2021 • However…. • 40% are under 16 or over 65 • Net out-migration for 16-24 year olds
Impact of skill shortage vacancies on performance by occupation Source:ESS2001 (IFF/IER)
Productivity gap Source: OECD
Manufacturing Productivity Source: ABI, ONS
Qualifications in the workplace Source: DfEE, LFS, 2001
Employee Skill Levels Source: OECD, 1999
Skills and Learning Intelligence Module www.swslim.org.uk Helpdesk - 01392 264850
Activity Rates Source:Labour Force Surveys, Eurostat
Why have older men stopped working? • Economic activity rate for 60 - 64 year olds fell from 80% to 50% from 1980 - 2000 • Economic activity rate for 55 to 59 year olds fell from 90% to 75% • By mid 1990’s, a quarter of 60-64 year old males a fifth of 55-59 year old males were in receipt of invalidity benefits • Only one third of 60 year old males are in employment Disney - ‘Why have older men stopped working?, The state of working Britain, 1998.
Skills and Learning Intelligence Module www.swslim.org.uk Helpdesk - 01392 264850