Skills upgrading : new policy perspectives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Local Economic and Employment Development (Program)

Series:

Local economic and employment development.

Local economic and employment development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occupational training--OECD countries.

Occupational training.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Other Title:

French title on t.p. verso: Ameliorer les competences : vers de nouvelles politiques

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD, c2006.

Language Note:

English

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 labour market policy and vocational training, and workers’ weaknesses and 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.

Contents:

About the Authors

Skills Upgrading Initiatives in Canada

Sectoral Initiatives to Train Low-qualified Incumbent Workers in the United States

Skills Upgrading for Low-qualified Workers in Flanders

From Welfare-to-work to Welfare-in-work

Education and Training for the Low-skilled in Denmark

The Regional Implementation of the Employer Training Pilots in the United Kingdom

Executive Summary

An Introduction to Skills Upgrading.

Notes:

"LEED Programme"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-60659-2

9786610606597

92-64-01251-6

OCLC:

476075909