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Skills and Skilled Work An Economic and Social Analysis

ISBN: 9780199642854 | 0199642850
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/14/2013

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SummaryTable of Contents
Skills are frequently in the news and in the public eye in every country. Stories highlight concerns about education and literacy standards, grades, learning by rote, and university students being unprepared for work, as well as debates surrounding internships and apprenticeships, and social exclusion through skills policy. The recent financial crisis has forced education and training to take a back seat, and has caused an increase in youth unemployment. Skill and skilled work are widely considered important for promoting both prosperity and s... MORE

PART I : SKILL CONCEPTS AND FRAMEWORK
1. Skilled Work and Job Quality
2. What Is Skill?
3. Framing the Analysis of Skilled Work
4. The Measurement of Skill
PART II: THE PLAYERS
5. Employers and the Evolution of Skilled Work
6. Employers and Skill Formation
7. Skills and Skilled Work for Workers
PART III : SYSTEMS AND INTERVENTIONS
8. Skill Matching Processes, Problems, and Outcomes
9. Skill Systems and the Role of the State
10. Skills Analysis for Mod... MORE


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