Company training and services : focus on low skills / guest editors, Rita Asplund and Wiemer Salverda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Asplund, Rita.

Salverda, Wiemer.

Series:

International journal of manpower ; v. 25, no. 1, 2004.

International journal of manpower ; v. 25, no. 1, 2004

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employees--Training of.

Employees.

Occupational training.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bradford, England] : Emerald Group Pub., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This special issue of the International Journal of Manpower aims to make a contribution to broadening our limited understanding of the role and impact of employer-provided training for low-skilled service sector workers. It brings together seven of the papers that were presented at the international conference "Adapting Education and Training for the Enhancement of Low-Skilled Jobs" held at Helsinki in May 2002. The papers are situated at the crossroads where three different strands of research and policy making meet: the training of the low skilled, the system of vocational training and the ro

Contents:

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Abstracts and keywords; Introduction Company training and services with a focus on low skills; Company training and low-skill consumer-service jobs in Ireland; Why do business service firms employ fewer apprentices?; The role of training in changing an economy specialising in tourism; Training, task flexibility and the employability of low-skilled workers; Training and industrial restructuring; Labour market effects of apprenticeship training in Austria; Human capital spillovers in the workplace: evidence for the service sector in Britain

About the Guest Editors About the authors; Note from the publisher

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-51565-1

9786610515653

1-84544-738-7

OCLC:

70748845