Study of Instruments and Tools to Anticipate the Effects of Industrial Change - Portuguese report

Moniz, António and Dinis, Marco (1996): Study of Instruments and Tools to Anticipate the Effects of Industrial Change - Portuguese report.

Abstract

This study was produced for the “Study of Instruments and Tools to anticipate the effects of industrial change on employment, trades and vocational qualifications” and for DG V (Employment) of the European Commission in the late 1994. It started when the previous Portuguese government was still ruling, the main policies were defined, and the available instruments were not used in a minimum extend. The new Government, issued from the 1995 elections, proposed “employment” as a major objective with horizontal responsibility. That’s also why there is now a Ministry for Qualifications and Employment, and another one for Solidarity and Social Affairs, not one for Employment and Social Affairs as the previous Government had. But more than that, this objective is considered to need a coordinated and consistent action that involves external affairs, industrial and regional policies, and the policies on education, training and employment, among others. The promotion of the “quality of employment” is being recently done at the working conditions, remuneration, social protection, occupational promotion levels, and the equality of opportunities towards employment and vocational training levels, and finally, the levels of qualification of human resources for a better labour market, education policy and training policy developments. In Portugal, the influence of the industrial change is produced in a top-down way; with (in some cases) an ex post analysis process to formulated training needs. This means that the industrial change impact is produced (normally, unexpectedly), and afterwards the responsible at the company level tries to know which training needs should be formulated in order those effects could be the smoother possible. The training needs at the company level is not based on anticipatory studies, neither is done any long term forecast on qualification, or even employment level.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: employment; qualifications; Portugal; labour market; working conditions; human resources; foresight; forecasting
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J0 - General > J08 - Labor Economics Policies; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J60 - General; H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations > H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions; H - Public Economics > H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents > H30 - General; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J48 - Public Policy

References

CARAÇA, J.M. (coord.): Estudo estratégico dos sistemas de Educação/Formação, de Ciência e Tecnologia e de Emprego da Região Autonoma da Madeira, Lisbon, CISEP, 1995. CERDEIRA, M.C. (coord): Training in the Retail Trade in Portugal, Berlin, CEDEFOP, 1992. Challenge: A modernização tecnológica: Implicações na estrutura de emprego, Lisbon, UGT/PEDIP/Challenge, 1991. DIAS, J. (coord): Road transport in Portugal: Qualifications and training, Lisbon, CESO I&D/FORCE, 1995. DUARTE, A.C. et al.: Relatório sobre Portugal elaborado no âmbito da informação sobre políticas de emprego (MISEP), Lisboa, DGEFP, 1995, 292 pp. FERRÃO, J.; VALE, M.: “People carriers, a new opportunity for the European periphery? Lessons from the Ford/VW project (Portugal)” in HUDSON, R.; SCHAMP. E. (eds.): Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe? New Production Concepts and Regional Restructuring, Springer Verlag, 1994 (forthcoming). GRILO, E.M.; ABECASSIS, M.: Estratégia de desenvolvimento dos Recursos Humanos em Portugal, Cenários até 2002, Lisbon, Min. Education. KOVÁCS, I. et al: Tendências de evolução da indústria electrónica na Península Ibérica: Tecnologia, gestão e qualificações, Venda Nova, CINEL/FORCE, 1993. KOVÁCS, I., A. B. MONIZ and Maria C. CERDEIRA: Mudança Tecnológica e Organizacional do Trabalho na Indústria Portuguesa, Lisbon, CGTP/PEDIP/CESO I&D, 1992 KOVÁCS, I., A. B. MONIZ, M. C. CERDEIRA and M. BAIRRADA: Qualificações e mercado de trabalho, Lisbon, IEFP, 1994, 206 pp MARINHO, M.J.; M.G. CORREIA; G. ROCHA: Indicadores Regionais de Emprego, Ponta Delgada, SRJRH, 1992 MARTINS, Álvaro: Medium term employment forecasts, Almada, Euro-Economia, 1993. Monitor Company/CEDINTEC: A competitividade da indústria portuguesa, 1994. MONIZ, A. B. et al.: Occupational structure, training and labour relations in the metal industries in Portugal, Lisbon, CESO I&D/CEDEFOP, 1989. MONIZ, A. B., M. LEITÃO: Qualificações e necessidades de formação no sector das telecomunicações em Portugal, Monte de Caparica, UNINOVA/FORCE, 1995. MONIZ, A. B.: A evolução da indústria automóvel em Portugal, Lisbon, SOCIUS, 1995. MONIZ, A. B.: The Spatial Influence of Industrial Development: The Portuguese case, Brussels, FAST/IAT, 1993 MONIZ, A.B., M.C.CERDEIRA, J. LAVADINHO: Skill shortages in Setúbal region, Monte de Caparica, UNINOVA, 1989. MOTA, A.: "A formação em Portugal face ao desafio europeu" (Training in Portugal vis-a-vis the European Challenge), Revista da Formação Profissional, nº 1/86, pp. 83. MOTA, A.; GRILO, E.M. e SOARES, M.C.: Descrição do sistema de formação profissional - Portugal (A Description of the Professional Training System - Portugal), Berlin, CEDEFOP, 1985, 143 pp NEVES, A. O.: O impacto do projecto Ford/VW no emprego da região de Setúbal, Lisbon, CIDEC, 1995. NEVES, A.O. et al: Levantamento de necessidades de formaçnao profissional na área da Península de Setúbal, Lisbon, CIDEC/IEFP, 1993. NEVES, A.O., Emprego e Formação no Comércio, Lisbon, CECOA, 1994. OECD: L’étude de l’OCDE sur l’emploi. Données et explications, Paris, OECD, 1994 (Part I). PEDIP News, No. 1, April 1994, p. 4. Presidency of Ministries Council: Programa do XIII Governo Constitucional, November 1995. ROCHA, Gilberta Pavão Nunes, Maria Conceição CERDEIRA e António Brandão MONIZ: “A População e Demografia na região de Setúbal: Análise prospectiva até 2021”. RODRIGUES, M.J. and A. O. NEVES: Políticas de reestruturação, Lisbon, IEFP, 1994. RODRIGUES, M.J., A.J. ALMEIDA, F. SULEMAN, M. PERESTRELO: O levantamento de necessidades de formação: Relevância e balanço da experiência acumulada, Lisbon, CNEducation, 1995, pp. 101 - 158. RODRIGUES, M.J., J. MALAQUIAS, J. BILHIM, J. PIRES: Necessidades de formação face à introdução de tecnologias de informação na empresa, Lisbon, TDC/FUNDETEC/Dinâmia/Compta RH, 1994. SANTOS, A. Ramos et al: As empresas e a dinâmica das profissões, Lisbon, IEFP, 1994.