EDULEARN 2014
DOES EDUCATION CONTRIBUTE TO 'DESIRABLE'
STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN LABOUR MARKET IN LATVIA?
EXPERIENCE OF REGIONAL POLICY AND SEARCHING FOR
INNOVATIVE TRENDS
VIKTORIJA ŠIPILOVA
[email protected]
The Institute of Social Research,
Daugavpils University (LATVIA)
Logical chain of interaction between technological progress,
structural change, labour market and education
Source: elaborated by author
Does education contribute to ‘desirable’ structural change at labour market?
Structural change in labour market within high-technology manufacturing sector in the
European Union countries, 2000-2012
Correlation matrix for Latvia and the European Union countries
with maximal and minimal values of structural change at labour market
within high-technology manufacturing sector
Experience of regional policy and searching for innovative trends in Latvia (2)
The performance of Latvia by structural change at labour market within manufacturing
sector and in the fields of higher education
Conclusion
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The tendencies in the global economic space require the labour market to adapt.
This, in turn, is not possible without appropriate education level, but the choice of
the existing and potential workforce mostly depends on ‘wellbeing’ concept and
not on necessity to reach ‘desirable’ structural change. In general, author can
highlight that workforce consider education as a tool for achieving wellbeing in a
short period of time, in turn, country in a long period of time.
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Education yet does not contribute to ‘desirable’ structural change as was indicated
by example of some European Union countries, but these indicators are linked.
The same situation can be observed in Latvia also, but some innovative tendencies
(for Latvia) could be mentioned: (1) regional development policies as well as
experience of economy indicate on tendency in bigger extent to welcome
structural change within sectors which forms regional specialization, than in
economy as a whole, but (2) relative equality between sectors ‘desirable’ for
structural change and sectors of ‘wellbeing’ concept can be observed - the choice
of individuals is tended not only in favour to field of education necessary for
sectors of regional specialization (‘wellbeing’ concept), but in favour sectors
‘desirable’ for structural change also.
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7-9 July , 2014
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