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. The result is an imbalanced labour market with unused human resource potential, misused government resources and unmet employer needs. A number of obstacles stand in the way of nurturing employment and social cohesion in our increasingly integrated economies. Innovative experiments throughout OECD member countries show that those obstacles can be overcome. A wide range of actors from government, business and.  Read more...