This online webinar on Labour market transitions and life courses is being organized as part of the EU funded project “Building partnerships on the future of work”  The project is implemented together by the ILO and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC).

The webinar will present and discuss recent research undertaken or commissioned by the two institutions on transitions from or into self-employment in Europe and on available data sources to measure changing life courses. An illustration of recent developments in life courses measurement will also be provided by the Young Lives Project (Oxford University).

Speakers:

• Alessio Mitra (ex-EC-JRC, current EC-RTD) on the drivers of transitions into/from self-employment in the EU - Presentation
• Giannina Vaccaro (Université de Lausanne) and Dan Orsholits (Université de Genève) on measuring labour market transitions using a life-course perspective in selected developed and developing countries – an inventory of existing panel data and methods of analysis - Presentation
• Marta Favara (Young Lives, Oxford University) on the latest developments of the Young Lives project - Presentation