Research Catalog

Title

Skills upgrading : new policy perspectives.

Publication

Paris : OECD, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Local Economic and Employment Development (Program)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• SourceOECD (Online service)

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

Uniform Title

Local economic and employment development.

Alternative Title

Améliorer les compétences : vers de nouvelles politiques

Subject

• Lage-inkomensgroepen
• Occupational training > OECD countries
• Scholing
• Vaardigheden

Note

• "LEED Programme"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9264012508
• 9789264012509

LCCN

^^2006484239

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library