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The term white jobs can be used to refer to those who work in the health and social services sector.
About 20 million people across the European Union are employed in such posts, a figure which will increase in the coming years as society copes with an ageing population and new developments, such as innovative treatments, impact on care provision
By 2020 there will be a shortage of about one million professionals in the health sector - and up to two million if ancillary healthcare professions are taken into account.
Serious deficits in qualified professionals, in management and technical, job-specific skills are hampering Europe’s sustainable growth objectives.
This is also the case for shortages in areas critical for innovation, in particular Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. In the automotive sector and shipbuilding, for example, demand for hybrid vehicles and offshore investment in sustainable energy already requires many skills other than those which workers in those sectors currently have.
Significant investments in "green" skills need to be made to ensure Europe lives up to its ambition of having three million green collar workers by 2020.
As one of the actions within the Europe 2020 flagship initiative "An agenda for new skills and jobs“, the Commission has launched two quarterly bulletins to gather up-to-date information on labour demand and job vacancies.
They will also serve as an early-warning tool for bottlenecks and mismatches on the labour market.
The European Vacancy Monitor provides an overview of recent developments on the European job market. Data on job vacancies, job finders and hiring will inform about trends in occupational demand and skills requirements.
Some of the news in the first bulletin:
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