The City Region Employment and Skills Assessment provides a detailed review of employment and skills issues in the City Region.
It includes an analysis of macro-economic trends, trends in population and migration, trends in earnings, the key drivers of skills change and emerging skills needs, and considers further the balance between the supply of and demand for skills.
The project has three phases:
Phase 1, completed in September 2009, provides an initial overview of key issues:
Phase 2 is the production of a more detailed employment and skills assessment.
Phase 3 will involve producing an enhanced and updated report, which will include data due to be published in the new year. A draft report will be produced in April 2010.
Where will the Assessment be used?
Our Assessment provides an employment and skills evidence base for:
- The City Region Employment and Skills Strategy
- The development of employment and skills provision
- Investment priorities for a Commissioning Plan which will accompany the Strategy
What’s in the report?
The report covers recent trends and likely future patterns in the demand for and supply of labour and skills across the City Region, including:
- Trends in economic performance and the likely impact on the demand for labour
- Key sectors and clusters
- Drivers of skills change and emerging skills needs
- The impact of recession – looking especially at the employment opportunities and skills gaps and mismatches
- Trends in demography and migration
- The quality of labour supply
- Travel to work patterns
- Unemployment and worklessness
- Earnings – evolution and current levels in the City Region
- SWOT analysis – strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for the City Region
Key sectors and clusters in Birmingham
Source: Annual Business Inquiry
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Trends in demography in the City Region
Source: Office for National Statistics, 2006-based population projections
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Note on the data
Although, wherever possible, we have used the most up-to-date data available, please note that sometimes this data pre-dates the recession. However, where available, we have included initial analysis of the impact of the downturn on skills and the labour market. We have also subsumed/added in wide-ranging analysis on key trends and issues going forward.