The German Skills Machine
Subtitle: Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy (Policies and Institutions, Vol 3)
Contributors: Pepper D. Culpepper (Editor); David Finegold (Editor)
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9781571811448
Subjects: Industrial or vocational training; Labour economics; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Occupational Retraining; Career And Vocational Education; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Germany; Occupational training; Training; Vocational education
Description: "Combining an examination of the competitiveness of the German training system with an analysis of the robustness of the political institutions that support it, this volume seeks to understand the extent to which the German system for imparting craft skills can adjust to changes in the organization of production in the advanced industrial states."--BOOK JACKET.