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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 November 2009
      18 April 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511582332
      9780521472050
      9780521479578
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582332
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.648kg, 374 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.539kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Labour Economics
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    Technological change, unemployment and industrial restructuring have highlighted training and the acquisition of skills as a policy issue. There is widespread concern that employees are insufficiently skilled, and it is recognised that this deficiency can have serious economic consequences. The situation is likely to become particularly urgent, as the dramatic increase in the share of temporary and part-time employment in the OECD leads to a decline in the incentives to train. This 1996 book, from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, provides a systematic account of the causes, consequences, and policy implications of failure in training provision and skills acquisition in the industrial world. It explains why the market mechanism leads people to under-invest in skills and examines the empirical outcome of these problems using a portfolio of examples for European countries.

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    "As a collection of essays, this volume is a rousing success: the essays are interesting, clever and thought provoking." Industrial and Labor Relations Review

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