Employment and Skills at Local Level

More flexibility in labour market policy management would boost growth, says OECD

21-Apr-2008

OECD governments could boost economic growth and help create jobs if local agencies and authorities had more power and autonomy to adjust employment and training programmes to meet local needs, concluded OECD employment ministers.

LEED Project on Designing Local Skills Strategies

06-Jul-2007

Low skills represent a considerable risk in today’s knowledge economy, and local level stakeholders are increasingly becoming important players in addressing skills issues.  LEED is currently examining ten case studies of innovative practice in designing local skills strategies from East Asia, Europe, Australasia and North and South America. 

From immigration to integration: local solutions to a global challenge

24-Nov-2006

The LEED Programme has released the results of the study on local level initiatives to foster the integration of immigrant groups, carried out in cooperation with the Non-Member Economies and International Migration Division (NEIM).  Participating countries include Canada, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and UK.  The full report is available as an OECD publication.

Publication on "Local Governance for Promoting Employment: Comparing the Performance of Japan and Seven Countries"

28-Oct-2005

This publication has been released following the workshop on "Local Employment Development" organised in Tokyo, Japan, in 2005.  This was a joint event of the LEED Programme and the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT). The book includes the papers presented at the workshop with report of some successful cases of regional employment development in each country, which was added to the papers based on the discussions at the workshop.

Study on Skills Upgrading for the Low-qualified

22-Aug-2002

A study project has been launched on the local dimension of skills upgrading for the low-qualified workers. An exploratory report is now available. For more information, please contact Corinne.Nativel@oecd.org

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