The purpose of this work package is to make an inventory of relevant EU and non-EU establishment panel studies to investigate whether they cover the use of ICT in the organisation and labour market related issues, including educational and training investments and Human Resources Management. This inventory will make it possible to do benchmarking with regard to the relation between ICT investments and ICT applications, on the one hand, and internal and external labour market effects, on the other. The interpretation of the international divergences will take into account both the methodological aspects and the ‘real differences’.

In this basis, an innovatively designed modular instrument will be developed for measuring the use and effects of ICT on organisational strategies. This instrument will be disseminated for use in a wide range of international organisational surveys.