Topic: Labour and skills

Designing and evaluating policies that promote fair wages, job security, and skills development.

Labour and skills

This area addresses how work is organised, rewarded, and protected. It explores policies that secure fair pay, safeguard employment, and strengthen opportunities for learning throughout life. By balancing equity with competitiveness, it aims to build a labour market that is inclusive, adaptable, and resilient to economic and technological change.

Fair wage policies

Fair wage policies seek to align pay with productivity and cost of living while preventing exploitation. By drawing on labour market data and wage benchmarks, they aim to reduce disparities and support economic participation. These measures help ensure work provides dignity, sustains households, and promotes a fair distribution of prosperity.

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Job security and labour market regulation

Job security underpins both economic stability and social trust. Through contract rules, dismissal protection, and social safety nets, regulation shields workers while allowing businesses to adapt. Effective frameworks balance flexibility with protection, ensuring that labour markets can evolve without undermining the security and well-being of those who depend on them.

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Skills development for economic adaptability

Skills policies prepare individuals for shifting economic realities, from automation to global competition. They promote vocational education, retraining, and lifelong learning, enabling workers to remain employable across sectors and careers. Strong skills systems boost innovation, productivity, and resilience, helping societies navigate transitions while reducing the risk of exclusion.

Flagship projects

UNTANGLED

A three-year interdisciplinary Horizon 2020 research project (2021-2024) that examined the interconnected trends of globalisation, demographic change and technological transformation, and their effects on labour markets in the European Union and beyond.

LUXTALENT

The LUXTALENT project analyses the inflows and outflows of foreign workers in the Luxembourg labour market in order to highlight the dynamics underlying the attraction, and retention of international talent.

LOWSKIM

Discover the digital skills that employers are looking for. LOWSKIM used natural language processing to analyse real-time labour market data from online job vacancies to identify the most in-demand digital skills in Luxembourg and neighbouring countries.

LISER Policy Lab