The paper Estimating Labour Force Flows, Job Openings and Human Resource Requirements 1990-2005, published in the FAS ESRI Manpower Forecasting Series, utilises a novel approach by estimating gross flows in the labour force rather than concentrating on net movements only. It provides data on job...

Chapter 1 reviews the methodology used and describes the standard occupational categories used in the various analyses. Chapter 2 sketches the economic scenario for the period up to 2015 as envisaged in the ESRI 2001 Medium-Term Review publication. Chapter 3 contains analyses of the occupational...

Segmented labour market theory rests on two central tenets. The first is that it is meaningful to distinguish between primary labour markets providing "good" jobs with high wages and stable employment and secondary labour markets providing "bad" jobs with low pay and unstable employment. The...