Skills Upgrading [electronic resource]: New Policy Perspectives /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Local Economic and Employment Development (Program)
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2006.
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.
"LEED Programme"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
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Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED)