Designing local skills strategies
By: edited by Francesca Froy, Sylvain Giguère and Andrea-Rosalinde Hofer
Contributors: Local Economic and Employment Development (Program); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Secretary-General; SourceOECD (Online service)
Series: Local economic and employment development; Local economic and employment development
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9789264066649; 9789264066625
Subjects: Occupational training; Occupational retraining
Description: Higher-level skills are increasingly demanded by the knowledge-based economy, but with rising mobility and demographic change, it is no longer so simple to invest in a skilled workforce for the future. Actions are needed on a variety of fronts, including attracting and retaining talent, better integrating disadvantaged groups into the labor force, and upgrading the skills of low-paid workers. Much of the responsibility for these actions falls squarely on the shoulders of local policy makers. Drawing from a wide array of case studies, this book analyzes best-practice local strategies for increasing workforce skills. It also takes a close look at the opportunities and challenges presented by international migration. The in-depth case studies in this report range from Shanghai's "Highland of Talent Strategy" to new "career ladders" which help immigrants escape low-skilled, low-paid employment in New York. National and local-level recommendations on local skills development are provided, for both OECD and non-OECD countries.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD"--T.p. verso.

OECD code: 84 2009 07 1 P

ISSN for electronic format: 1990-1097.

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