Centre for Future Labour Market Studies (EU-ERA)

Centre for Future Labour Market Studies (EU-ERA) is a state-of-the-art research centre in Malaysia that focuses on the labour market research and analytics, which was established in September 2020. The foundation of developing EU-ERA is inspired based on the best practices of several established institutions globally such as Korea Employment Information Services (KEIS), IZA Institute of Labour Economics, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) and International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO). The mission of the EU-ERA is to blend the scientific and empirical approaches into the current policy development which cover end-to-end labor market policies ranging from the labor supply to the labor demand issues. In meeting the scopes, the centre focuses on forecasting and modelling; applied policy analysis; and capacity building and structured training programs for labor market assessment tools. Our core researchers have strong expertise in quantitative economic tools which include econometrics, input-output (IO), social accounting matrix (SAM), computable general equilibrium (CGE), system dynamics (SD) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). These quantitative tools are not only vital for labour policy assessments but also are able to address the inter-linkages between the labor market and other developmental issues such as investment, trade, income distribution, poverty, social policy, demography and aging, and migration.