CIM is headed by Research Centre Director, Professor Michael Rosholm.

CIM researchers perform research on the formation of formal skills and qualifications throughout the entire lifetime from child to adult to elderly. The research is mostly based on quantitative studies of formal competences acquired in the school system, the educational system and the post-educational system. Further, special focus is on immigrants' qualifications, effects of health and human capital depreciations due to employment interruptions related to child birth, sickness, unemployment or other temporary non-employment spells.

CIM is organized with five main research themes which all relate to the competences of the current and future labour force:

1. Schooling, education and intergenerational transmission
2. Integration of immigrants
3. Life-long learning and the employment of unskilled workers
4. Human capital depreciation, career interruptions and career development
5. Health, qualifications and employment.