Europe must focus more on skills than ever before. Skills to adapt and to shape the jobs of tomorrow are essential for Europe's citizens and businesses to speed up economic recovery. Equally, adequate skills are needed to respond to long-term challenges - to compete in the global market, sustain...

This publication presents results of the first skill supply forecast in Europe until 2020 and complements the forecast of skills demand published by Cedefop in 2008. It builds upon a multisectoral macroeconomic model, extended to include a set of overall labour supply projections by age and...