Creating the lower-skilled jobs vital for EU economic revival
Summary of the impact
Research by Christopher Pissarides and his LSE colleague Rachel Ngai has led to official acceptance by European Union (EU) policy-makers that a major source of new jobs will be sectors that provide services to the general public, notably healthcare and low-skill domestic services. The European Commission was initially hostile to this view, preferring the emphasis of the EU’s so-called ‘Lisbon strategy’ on job creation in advanced technology industries. But the Commission’s Growth Survey 2012 indicates that it has now adopted Pissarides’ approach, and at the ‘Jobs for Europe’ summit in September 2012 he was invited to deliver a keynote speech on the same platform as the ‘three Presidents’ (of the Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament). His policy recommendations – including the need for better incentives for the ‘marketisation’ of activity in the care and unskilled services sectors – are now part of the official EU agenda on job creation. He has also advised national governments, including in his native Cyprus, where he was appointed president of the government’s Economic Policy Council in 2013.
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