Dr. Rob Wilson is Deputy Director of the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick in the UK. He leads the Institute’s labour assessment and market forecasting work. He has also researched and published on many other aspects of labour market behaviour, including the changing patterns of demand for and the supply of skills at national and international levels.
He has played a leading role in developing quantitative approaches to anticipating changing skills needs at a national and international level. As well as producing Working Futures for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), he has lead the Cedefop Skillsnet project on Medium-term forecasts of occupational skill needs in Europe and the analogous project on developing skills supply projections. For the first time, this research has produced a consistent and comprehensive assessment of prospects for the demand for and supply of skills for the whole of Europe.
He has written extensively on these and related topics, including books on Employment Forecasting in the Construction Industry; the National Health Service and the Labour Market; Technical Change: The Role of Scientists and Engineers; and Research and Development Statistics.
Amongst his professional responsibilities, he is a member of the UK Migration Advisory Committee set up to advise Home Office ministers about whether there are skill shortages that can be sensibly filled by the use of inward migrants to the UK, He is also a member of the UKCES Expert Panel.