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 establishment of EU-ERA begins with the research collaboration between Employment Insurance System (EIS) at Social Security Organisation (SOCSO) and Universiti Putra Malaysia. The overall objective of the establishment of EU-ERA at EIS, SOCSO is to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Human Resources (MOHR) and the SOCSO, in particular, in developing, implementing and evaluating sound labour policies. EU-ERA supports this initiative by providing a critical labour market policy reflection through advanced analytics and in-depth evaluation of the labour demand in supporting the implementation of the Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) under Employment Insurance Systems (EIS).
During the two years with SOCSO and MOHR (September 2020 to August 2022), EU-ERA has shown a considerable contribution to the research, publication and policy papers related to labour market. Thanks to SOCSO and MOHR for giving opportunities to EU-ERA in contributing evidence-based labour market policies.