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Skill Formation
Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives

Karl Ulrich Mayer, Heike Solga, Pepper D. Culpepper, Kathleen Thelen, Steffen Hillmert, Christian Dustmann, Uta Schoenberg, Philip J. O'Connell, Jean-Marie Jungblut, Walter Mueller, Marita Jacob, Hans Gruber, Christian Harteis, Monika Rehrl, Martin Baethge, Frank Achtenhagen, Lena Arends
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  • Date Published: March 2008
  • availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521867528

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  • There are marked changes in skill requirements in today's modern societies, and major questions about the processes of skill formation remain unresolved. What do we mean when we talk about skills, qualifications and competencies? Are market economies and firms systematically under-investing in skills? This book addresses these questions by first looking at what we mean when we talk about 'skills'. Secondly, it looks at the institutions where skills are acquired, before finally considering the provision of and access to training. It provides an up-to-date review of theories and research on skill formation in psychology, economics, political science and sociology, and addresses issues of skill learning and measurement, institutional and policy differences between countries, the issue of skill formation across a lifetime and disparities between socio-economic groups.

    • 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: March 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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    Karl Ulrich Mayer, Yale University, Connecticut
    Karl Ulrich Mayer is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Yale University and Co-Director of the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE). He is co-editor of After the Fall of the Wall: Life Courses in the Transformation of East Germany and The Berlin Aging Study: From 70 to 100 (Cambridge University Press).

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    Heike Solga, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
    Heike Solga is professor of sociology at the Institute for Sociology at the Georgia Augusta University Göttingen, Germany. She is a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Sociological Research Göttingen (SOFI), and from 2000-2005, she was head of the Independent Research Group named 'Lack of Training: Employment and Life Chances of the Less Educated' at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

    Contributors

    Karl Ulrich Mayer, Heike Solga, Pepper D. Culpepper, Kathleen Thelen, Steffen Hillmert, Christian Dustmann, Uta Schoenberg, Philip J. O'Connell, Jean-Marie Jungblut, Walter Mueller, Marita Jacob, Hans Gruber, Christian Harteis, Monika Rehrl, Martin Baethge, Frank Achtenhagen, Lena Arends

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