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Public employment services (PES)

• Dublin 25-26 November 2004
• The European PES Vacancy Monitor
• (EPVM)
• Germana Ricciardi,
• Employment Services,
• European Commission, DG EMPL

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Public Employment Services

• Aim of the presentation
• Locate our activities within/outside DG EMPL
• Describe current work of the PES Expert Group on
  the European PES Vacancy Monitor (EPVM)
• Provide an overview of future developments
• Question answers?

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Locate our activities in DG EMPL

• European Employment Strategy (EES) is articulated
  in ten Employment Guidelines (EGL)
• Most EGL have a major impact on Public Employment
  Services activities - particularly EGL 1, 3, 4, 7
  and 8
• Public Employment Services become main actors to
  implement European Employment Strategy
• Our unit work positioned between European
  Employment Strategy Public Employment Services

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Locate our activities at European level

• European Network of
• Public Employment Services
• Collaboration between national Public Employment
  Services and DG EMPL
• Important tool for modernisation exchange of
  good practices.

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Activities of the European PES Network

• Discuss problems encountered when transforming
  specific guidelines into practical operations
• Increase comparative understanding of national
  performances in guidelines implementation
• Comment on Employment Strategy Employment
  Guideline indicators from a practitioners point
  of view.

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Why are we interested?

• PES often mentioned as sources/users of
  information related to market forecasts
• Forecasting starts from proper understanding of
  present situation
• In this context, PESs can provide useful
  contribution

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Can it be done at European level?

• Need for information on the supply side Labour
  Force Survey (LFS)
• Need for information on the demand side Job
  Vacancy Survey (JVS)
• What is PES contribution? - EPVM

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Origins of the EPVM

• Limited quantitative information within PESs,
  on activities related to the demand side of the
  market namely the employers
• Different situation on the supply side of the
  market namely the jobseekers
• In 2001 Heads of PES decided to establish the
  EPVM to address this imbalance

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Origins of the EPVM

• Underlying assumption longer average delay in
  filling vacancies may be reflected in longer
  average processing time of vacancies
• Skepticism on some initial limitations of the
  monitor
• The EPVM conceived as an attempt to use data on
  PES vacancies to derive supplementary info on
  sectors with recruitment difficulties

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The EPVM in its present form

• Stage 1 - Data collection
• Difficult start-up activities
• Satisfactory results achieved in the last two
  years
• 15 countries participating AT, BE, DK, EE, FI,
  FR, DE, IE, LT, MT, NL, NO, ES, SE and UK

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The EPVM in its present form

• Stage 1 - Data collection
• ISCO-88 3-digit classification covering roughly
  110 occupational areas
• Stock-Flow Indicator of Processing Time SFIPT
  used to interpret the 'average processing time'
  of vacancies
• Complete time series now available for 2002/2003
  for 8 PESs

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The EPVM in its present form

• Stage 2 - Data analysis
• Focus on sectors with high SFIPT rates
  potential indication of recruitment difficulties?
• Identification of sectors common to more
  countries
• Analysis at EU level

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The EPVM in its present form

• Stage 3 Results
• Indicate how info available can be used what is
  its added value
• Discuss the report within the PES Expert Group
• Submit the report to Heads of PES for discussion

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Future developments in the EPVM

• Strong interest in continuing activity on the
  EPVM hence on recruitment difficulties
• Need to explore how to overcome some technical
  difficulties so far encountered
• Integration of PES data with other available info
  - clearer reflection of market realities

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Conclusions

• DG Employment - and the PES Network, have a clear
  interest in this area of activity
• Forecasting is a crucial, complex exercise
• It begins with a proper understanding of the
  current situation
• This is where PESs can bring an important
  contribution

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Contacts

• Germana Ricciardi
• European Commission, DGEMPL
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax. [phone]
• E-mail germana.ricciardi_at_cec.eu.int