Skills Policies for Resilience

This brief focuses on the resilience of skill systems, which is key to promote resilient labour markets and societies. It reviews what policy responses can promote labour market integration and skills development, with a view to build resilient systems. It draws lessons from recent episodes of economic downturn, for example the COVID19 pandemic – an economic crisis for which both shock and recovery are currently observable – as well as the cost-of-living crisis, that many countries have recently experienced as a consequence of rising prices, in particular for energy.