Developing balanced local skills strategies Francesca Froy, LEED Programme, OECD
Attraction & retention Integrated local skills strategies Up-skilling Integration
The OECD LEED diagnostic tool Supply GAPS AND SHORTAGES HIGH SKILLED EQUILIBRIUM Demand LOW SKILLED EQUILIBRIUM SURPLUS
Balanced local skills strategies
EI regions in Ontario, Canada 2006 DEMAND 1 0.8 Oshawa 0.6 Kitchener Ottawa (1.17,1.04) Toronto Hamilton 0.4 South Central Ontario Windsor Kingston London Sudbury 0.2 Thunder Bay Niagara Eastern Ontario St. Catharines 0-1 -0.8-0.6-0.4 Huron -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 SUPPLY 1 Central Ontario Northern Ontario -0.2-0.4-0.6-0.8-1 Rural Urban
EI regions characterised by high % employment in secondary sector, Canada, 2006 DEMAND Oshawa 1 0.8 Kitchener 0.6 0.4 Hamilton Windsor London 0.2 Sherbrooke South Central Quebec Eastern Ontario Central Quebec Central Ontario Montérégie St. Catharines 0-0.2-0.4 Trois-Rivières -1-0.8-0.6-0.4-0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 SUPPLY 1 Chicoutimi-Jonquière -0.6-0.8-1 Rural Urban
Skills supply and demand in the North West of England, UK, 2008 DEMAND 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 Greater Manchester South Halton and Warrington0.2 Cheshire CC Lancashire 0 CC -1-0.8-0.6-0.4-0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Liverpool East Cumbria Wirral Sefton SUPPLY West Cumbria Greater Manchester -0.2 East Merseyside North -0.4 Blackpool Blackburn with Darwen -0.6-0.8-1
Local economies high % employment in services, UK, 2008 DEMAND 1.0 Buckinghamshire Berkshire CC Surrey 0.8 0.6 Edinburgh, City of Bristol, City of Essex CC 0.4 Hampshire CC North and North East Milton Keynes Somerset, South Gloucestershire Brighton and Hove Wiltshire CC 0.2 Southampton Kent CC Cardiff and Vale of Glamaorgan Portsmouth Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Southend-on-Sea Monmouthshire and 0.0 Newport Renfrewshire -1.0-0.8-0.6-0.4-0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 East and West 0.6Dunbartonshire, 0.8 1.0 Helensburgh and Lomond Thurrock Tyneside Glasgow City SUPPLY -0.2 Isle of Wight Sheffield Wirral Sefton York Swansea Liverpool -0.4 Torbay -0.6 Blackpool -0.8-1.0 Urban Intermediate
Provinces in Veneto and Campania, Italy, 2001 DEMAND 1 0.8 0.6 Vicenza Belluno 0.4 Treviso 0.2 Verona Padova Venezia Rovigo 0-1 -0.8-0.6-0.4-0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Napoli SUPPLY -0.2 Benevento Caserta Avellino -0.4 Salerno -0.6-0.8-1 Veneto Campania
Provinces in Veneto and Campania, Italy, 2008 DEMAND 1 0.8 0.6 Rovigo Belluno Vicenza 0.4 Venezia 0.2 Verona Treviso Salerno Padova 0-1 -0.8-0.6-0.4-0.2 Caserta 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Napoli SUPPLY -0.2 Avellino -0.4-0.6 Benevento -0.8-1 Veneto Campania
4 domains of influence on skills Education & training systems Flows of skills Context for deployment Nature/design of products or services Evesson et al, 2009
Australian Skills Ecoystems A skills shortage.. A lack of relevant training for local people? A problem of work organisation and retention?
Making it work: stakeholders Public Employment Service Universities and colleges Unions Local councils Economic development actors Employers & employers associations
Making it work: strategies & governance Place-based or sector-based approach? Flexibility in delivery & targets A long-term approach
OECD Skills Strategy Ensuring an adequate supply of skills now and for the future Issues: quality and quantity of output from education systems, immigration, upgrading of the skills of the existing workforce Optimising the productive use of skills Issues: maximising participation, labour market information, recognition of qualifications, employer demand Effective steering and funding of skills systems Issues: policy coordination, role of social partners, who should pay, operation of incentives