Skills Upgrading: New Policy Perspectives
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. The result is an imbalanced labour market with unused human resource potential, misused government resources and unmet employer needs. A number of obstacles stand in the way of nurturing employment and social cohesion in our increasingly integrated economies.
Innovative experiments throughout OECD member countries show that those obstacles 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 labour market policy and vocational training, correct workers’ weaknesses and meet employers’ evolving needs. There are rich 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. Those lessons are essential reading for policy makers, practitioners and all actors involved in employment services, education and skills development.
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