In this episode of BOS, Postdoc Clément Brébion takes us on a journey into the world of applied labour economics and the case of apprenticeship training. Many Western countries are struggling with high youth unemployment and are thus looking at the German apprenticeship system as a prime model to follow for smooth school-to-work transitions.
Clément Brébion
Sustainable labour market integration: challenges and advancements in algorithmic profiling of jobseekers
The number of countries that are using algorithms to profile jobseekers has been on the rise since the 1990s. Algorithmic profiling aims at identifying individuals with little counselling needs, and those for whom intensive counselling and active labour market policies (ALMP) are expected to have the largest returns. The ultimate goal is to target services […]