Catalan labour market The role of mobility programmes and some Labour Market Active Policies concerning Russian-speakers population

1. Catalan labour market The role of mobility programmes and some Labour Market Active Policies concerning Russian- speakers populationTallin, September 2014

2. Some information about the labour marketSOC: Públic Employment Service of Catalonia

3. Some information about the labour market

4. Some information about the labour market
CATALONIA. Some labour market information.
•Population: 7.550.000
•Foreign population: 15,3% (since 2009 stopped inflows migration)

5. CATALONIA
•Population: 7.550.000
•Foreign population: 15,3% (since 2009)
•Economy increasingly based on services(Commerce, tranport and restaurants: 25%) Some information about the labour market

6. CATALONIA
•Population: 7.550.000
•Foreign population: 15,3% (since 2009)
•Economy increasingly based on services
•Employed population: 3.000.000(since 2008: 610.000 jobs have been lost) Some information about the labour market

7. CATALONIA
•Population: 7.550.000
•Foreign population: 15,3% (since 2009)
•Economy increasingly based on services
•Employed population: 3.000.000
•Unemployment rate: 20,22% (2014) 770.000 unemployed peopleSome information about the labour market

8. CATALONIA
•Population: 7.550.000
•Foreign population: 15,3% (since 2009)
•Economy increasingly based on services
•Employed population: 3.000.000
•Unemployment rate: 20,22% (2014)
•Youth unemployment rate: 51% (2012) Some information about the labour market

9. CATALONIA
•Population: 7.550.000 (since 2009)
•Foreign population: 15,3% (since 2009)
•Economy increasingly based on services
•Employed population: 3.000.000
•Unemployment rate: 20,22% (2014)
•Youth unemployment rate: 51% (2012)
20% of young people are not employed neither studying. More tan one third of young job- seekers are looking for their first job. They never worked before. Some information about the labour market

10. CATALONIA
•Population: 7.550.000 (since 2009)
•Foreign population: 15,3% (since 2009)
•Economy increasingly based on services
•Employed population: 3.000.000
•Unemployment rate: 20,22% (2014)
•Youth unemployment rate: 51% (2012)
•Clear difficulties to find a job to people older than 45 years old.
They are the 30% of job-seekers, but the 63% of long-term unemployment. In general, 60% of unemployed are looking for a job since more than 1 year. Some information about the labour market

11. SOC SYSTEM for tackling unemploymentCatalan Public Employment Service –Tackling unemploymentSOCMUNICIPALITIES AND LOCAL AGENTSASSOCIATIONS AND NGOsENTERPRISESSOCIAL PARTNERSINTERMEDIATION AGENCIESUNIVERSITIESCHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

12. SOC GOALS (2014-2016) for tackling unemploymentCatalan Public Employment Service –Tackling unemployment
•Underpin and coordinate guiding services
•Improve skills and qualifications aligned with the labour market needs
•Foster Vocational Education and Training (VET) in on-job programmes
•Create alliances and strategies of local development policies
•Set up Public-Private Partnership (PPP) collaborations.
•Implement the Youth Guarantee Program
•Encourage enterpreneurship

13. SOC Mobility programs: I. EURESMobility programmesCooperation network designed to facilitate the free movement of workers within the European Economic Area.
•to inform, guide and provide advice to potentially mobile workers on job opportunities as well as living and working conditions in the European Economic Area;
•to assist employers wishing to recruit workers from other countries
•to provide advice and guidance to workers and employers in cross-border regions. 2professionalsfullydedicatedtothistasks

14. SOC Mobility programs: II. EURODYSSEYMobility programmesEurodyssey is an exchange programme of the Assembly of European Regions (AER) which allows young job seekers aged between 18 and 30 to benefit from a traineeship placement abroad for a period of six months.
•70-80 participants per year.
•73% of participants find a job in less than 3 months.
•25% of participants are staying abroad after the programme.

15. SOC Mobility programs: III. LEONARDO DA VINCIMobility programmesLeonardo da Vinci is an exchange programme which allows young job seekers to benefit from a traineeship placement abroad for a period of four months.
•100 participants per year.
•It is focused to some countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy….)
•Before participanting, they get language classes. Hereinafterthisprogrammewillbeunder‘ERASMUS+’

16. SOC Mobility programs: IV. ERASMUS+ (2014-2015) Mobility programmes
•Young people participating in VET programmes (provided by SOC’s VET centres), will have the choice to participate in an internship abroad..
•The destination countries and the companies that will look for the internship placement are already selected (as partners of the project).
•The participants should be from qualifications on which the language plays a key role, or qualifications highly demanded (European job vancancy monitor).
•There will be a recruitment process
•100 participants foreseen for 2014-2015.
•There will be an online tool to set up, manage and assess the internship.

17. SOC pilot projects. European –Russian: SOC pilot projects. European-Russian. Russian language is increasingly important for the Catalan economy. For example in the tourism sector.
•977.140RussiantouristsvisitedCataloniain2013
•Itisthe5thlargestgroupbehindFrance,UnitedKingdom,GermanyandItaly
•TheaveragedaysRussiantouristsspendinCataloniais10.5.Thelargestbetweenalltourists.
•BetweenDecember2012andNovember2013,Russiantouristsspent1319.4millionsof€inCatalonia.

18. SOC pilot projects. European –Russian: SOC pilot projects. European-Russian. I. Russian language adressed to job-seekers in the tourist, retail and comercial sectorNew training qualification (140 hours), that will be registered in the VET catalogue of SOC.
•The programme content were set up with the collaboration of the Official School of Languages (Barcelona).
•Nowadays, it is in a pilot phase. The recruitment of participants (15 people) finished last 18thseptember 2014.

19. SOC pilot projects. European –Russian: SOC pilot projects. European-Russian. II. Training on Tourist sector to russian-speakers jobseekersOn the context of a VET program based on the tourist sector, some trainings were specially addressed to russian-speakers.
•Some studies emphasize the importance (for the competitiveness) of the Russian language in the tourist sector.
•It is much easier retrain russian-speakers (with enough soft skills) to the tourist sector than acquire a high Russian-language level by native.
•Nowadays, it is in a pilot phase. The recruitment of participants have been during september 2014.

20. SOC pilot projects. European –Russian: SOC pilot projects. European-Russian. II. Training on Tourist sector to russian-speakers jobseekersVET provided (September 2014):
•Hotel receptionist. Level 3. 510 h. 2 Courses at Barcelona and Tarragona
•Tour guide. Level 3. 570 h. 1 Course at Tarragona
•Restaurant assistant. Level 1. 270 h. 2 Courses at Barcelona and Girona
•Hotel room assistant. Level 1. 300 h. 1 Course at Barcelona

21. SOC pilot projects. European –Russian: SOC pilot projects. European-Russian. Double dividend: Tackling Russian-speakers unemployment while improving sectoral competitivenessRussian job seekers are increasingly important in the Public Employment Service. LevelEQF (aprox.)PeopleTertiary educationLevel 6 and uppper1.116High VET educationLevel 5344Upper secundary educationLevel 4960Medium Vocational Education and TrainingLevel 4434Secundary education (compulsory)Level 36.870Less than secundary educationLevel 21.431Non-education level23111.386Source: SOCRussian-speakers unemployed Job-seekers in Catalonia (des.2014)

22. SOC pilot projects. European –Russian: SOC pilot projects. European-Russian. Way forward: Assesment of the resolts during the traning and once finished the training (collocations in the labour market). To improve:
•Activation measures
•The profile to be recruited and the recruitment process
•Training specialties to be chosen
•Complementary contents/skillsIt would be possible to work out this pilot project on other strategical sectors: Commerce, housing sector, some industrial sector… Some research on labour market needs could be done

23. SOC pilot projects. European –Russian: SOC pilot projects. European-Russian. Participants perception:
•Russian language is an important added value when looking for a job.
•VET is considered as a fast way to obtain a professional accreditation
•It is very attractive the fact that the obtained qualification is recognized in Europe (EUROPASS)
•Other sectors (in addition to tourism) demanding Russian language:
•Commercial
•Housing
•Some customer services (as retail, medical, beauty…)
•The difficulties of translate and convalidate the education from the origin country is a huge barrier (expensive and 2 years!).
•There is a important over-education phenomen (under-occupation!).

24. SOC pilot projects. European –Russian: SOC pilot projects. European-Russian. Some provisional findings:
•English is necessary anyway (English should be complementary accredited or trained).
•There should be better information and support about how to convalidate the education
•The recruitment of candidates should be wider than SOC database (primary and secondary schools, language centers, local employment services, social services, religious centers)
•It would be interesting offering this VET programme within a labour activation programme.
•Russian could be the foreign language to be provided in qualifications related with other sectors demanding this language.

25. Some data about mobilitySome data about mobility

26. •64% of youth consider than living abroad is a positive experience (CIS). Desirable option.
•The increase of emigration from Spain since 2007 is about 125% (EEO). Quite significative.
•Few emigrants from Spain are Spanish nationals (12,3%).Most of them are non-EU nationals: Morocco and South America (EEO).
•These last years have been an important ‘return migration’: 10% outflows to Romania13% outflows to MoroccoOther: Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia…
•Spanish nationals primarily moved to UK, US, France and Germany.
•Mobile population from Spain are predominately high-skilled (EU-LFS): 78% of movers (highest rate in EU).
•42% of high-skilled Spanish movers are working in low-skilled works (one of the highest in EU)
Some data about mobilitySome data about mobility

27. •Cutbacks on R&D spending generates losses of human capital trough emigration. Altough emigration of Spanish nationals from Spain is quite low, as seen.
•Labour Market Intelligence to identify asymmetries, competitiveness oportunities, and labour market needs; in order to anticipate policies. Both for promoting outflows and for taking advantatge of inflows
•To improve the mutual recognition of qualifications and education levels
•To develop language skills
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