GeoLabour devotes itself to the prospective analysis of demography and labour market related issues, including issues of strategic geomarketing. It is based on the high level expertise developed by senior PhDs, acting as experts and consultants for international and national bodies.

Demographics are facing unheard-of changes that are due, over the next two decades, to reconfigure all territorial distributions. The tools offered by GEOLABOUR allow to integrate these dimensions into strategic decision-making. This involves on the one hand the labour market prospects and on the other the marketing prospects. The prospective analysis relies on elaborate projection tools down to the local level, based on comprehensive and permanently updated databases.

The Labour market prospects

As the working age population is to peak or to decline in most of the western world at short notice – and at a hardly longer term in most of the rest of the world – the question of the Labour supply will become a permanent concern for all Labour market mediators, for the recruitment business and for the Human Resource departments. It is not only a question of numbers, but more and more of quality and qualification –even more so in the frame of the emerging knowledge-based society. Therefore, GeoLabour considers all aspects related to educational attainments, vocational training, lifelong learning and lifelong development of competences, ageing workforce, turnover, skill- and job-assesment, labour and skill shortages, re-skilling, etc..

The first publication of GeoLabour is the ATLAS OF PROSPECTIVE LABOUR SUPPLY 2005, by G. Coomans It gives a comprehensive analysis of prospects at world level (Section A), for the US down to the county level (Section B) and for all regions of Europe (Section C). --> click here for more info

The Regional Leaflets, containing the full set of demographic, educational, labour force and potential employment prospects at local level, can be made available for any US county (or for any tailored area) or any European region, and e-mailed in PDF format within 24 Hours . --> click here for more info

The marketing prospects

When the size of the age groups changes to a significant extent, marketing decision must imperatively take this into account. The user-friendly tools Demographic Audit® & Location Rating® built by GeoLabour allow to monitor locations depending on projected growth for specific age groups or age distribution – corresponding for example to the age profile of customers for a product. The Standard US Edition of Demographic Audit® & Location Rating® is now fully operational .--> click here for more info

Geolabour Director:

Géry COOMANS

o Belgian born (1949).
o PhD in Economics (1984)
o Research Director ISMEA (Institut des Sciences Mathématiques et Economiques Appliquées – Paris) 1994-2004
o Senior Research Associate Work Research Center (Dublin) 2004.
o Research Associate Ministère de l’Education Nationale (Paris) 2004.
o Founder and Director of GeoLabour (Dublin) 2004.
o Expert at the European Commission, the OECD and a set of national institutions.
o Large involvement in the annual Report on the Social Situation in the European Union, European Commission (1999-2005)