Skills upgrading new policy perspectives

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 overcom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Corporate Authors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Local Economic and Employment Development (Program)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : OECD c2006.
Series:Local economic and employment development.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705582806719
Table of 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.