Skill Formation
Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives
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- Editor: Karl Ulrich Mayer, Yale University, Connecticut
- Author: Heike Solga, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
- Date Published: February 2008
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521867528
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Skills are the scarcest resource in the 21st century. But there is surprisingly little consensus on how they are best acquired. This is the first book to provide an up-to-date analysis of the concept of skill formation within the social sciences and includes contributions of original research from leading scholars in psychology, economics, political science, and sociology. This collection of essays addresses topics ranging from skill learning and measurement, to institutional and policy differences between countries, to skill formation across the life course and socioeconomic groups.
Read more- An update on basic theories of skill formation
- Contains analytic perspectives of psychology, economics, political science and sociology
- Features cross-national comparisons of skill providing institutions and policies
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- Date Published: February 2008
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521867528
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 157 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- contains: 25 tables
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
Part I. Cross-National Diversity in Skill Formation Regimes: Origins, Changes, and Institutional Variation in Individuals' Labor-Market Placements:
1. Institutions and collective actors in the provision of training: historical and cross-national comparisons Pepper D. Culpepper and Kathleen Thelen
2. When traditions change and virtues become obstacles: skill formation in Britain and Germany Steffen Hillmert
Part II. The Economics and Sociology of Skill Formation: Access, Investments, and Returns to Education:
3. Why does the German apprenticeship system work? Christian Dustmann and Uta Schoenberg
4. What do we know about training at work? Philip J. O'Connell and Jean-Marie Jungblut
5. Qualifications and the returns to training across the life course Walter Mueller and Marita Jacob
6. Lack of training: the employment opportunities of low-skilled persons from a sociological and microeconomic perspective Heike Solga
Part III. Individuals' Acquisition of Skills and Competencies: Learning Environments and Measurements of Skills:
7. Vocational and professional learning: skill formation between formal and situated learning Hans Gruber, Christian Harteis and Monika Rehrl
8. How to compare the success of VET systems in skill formation? Martin Baethge, Frank Achtenhagen and Lena Arends.
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