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global labor market expertise.

We conduct research on labor market trends, such as the skills mismatch, global mobility & labor migration, and the changes & transitions in the digital era. Our yearly report ‘Flexibility@Work,’ provides a comprehensive overview of international employment trends in the flexible labor market.

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global mobility& labor migration.

Our aim in presenting this edition of flexibility@work is to summarize and contextualize the research  to help organizations and policymakers to better understand the shifts currently taking place in the global labor market; and how talent mobility can help us address some of the challenges ahead.

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future of work in the digital age.

The research reveals the labor market is in the midst of drastic changes. To understand this transition, the researchers assessed two related phenomena: deindustrialization and job polarization.

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self-employment in the Great Recession of 2008-2014.

This study shows that a higher self-employment rate was not conducive to grow out of the Great Recession. The study also reveals that the self-employed are either pushed or pulled into working for themselves.

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