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Skills upgrading : new policy perspectives.
- Title
- Skills upgrading : new policy perspectives.
- Publication
- Paris : OECD, c2006.
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- Description
- 313 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Skills are key to a better job and a better life, yet acquiring them is often most difficult for the people who need them most: those trapped in low-paid jobs with hard working conditions. Innovative experiments throughout OECD member countries show that barriers to skills acquisition can be overcome. A wide range of actors from government, business and civil society have joined efforts and embarked on initiatives that indeed fill the gap between labor market policy and vocational training, and workers weaknesses and employers evolving needs. There are lessons to be learned from the experiences of Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Denmark, the United Kingdom and the United States, which are investigated in this book.--Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Local economic and employment development
- Alternative Title
- Améliorer les compétences : vers de nouvelles politiques
- Subject
- Occupational training > OECD countries
- Note
- "LEED Programme"--P. [4] of cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available online.
- Contents
- An introduction to skills upgrading : why a shift in policy is needed / by Sylvain Giguère -- From Welfare-to-Work to welfare-in-work : concepts and policies / by Corinne Nativel -- Education and training for the low-skilled in Denmark : linking public policy to workplace needs and practice / by Mette Nørholm -- The regional implementation of the employer training pilots in the United Kingdom / by Penny Tamkin, Jim Hillage and Viona Gerova -- Sectoral initiatives to train low-qualified incumbent workers in the United States : two case studies / by Randall W. Eberts -- Skills upgrading for low-qualified workers in Flanders / by Ides Nicaise, Roel Verlinden and Frank Pirard -- Skills upgrading initiatives in Canada : evidence from Alberta and the Northwest Territories / Richard Brisbois and Ron Saunders.
- Call Number
- JBE 07-1368
- ISBN
- 9264012508
- 9789264012509
- LCCN
- 2006484239
- OCLC
- 70289744
- Title
- Skills upgrading : new policy perspectives.
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD, c2006.
- Series
- Local economic and employment development
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Additional Formats
- Also available online.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.Local Economic and Employment Development (Program)SourceOECD (Online service)
- Research Call Number
- JBE 07-1368