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Workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises
Lorenz, Edward H.; Potter, Jonathan - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or …, knowledge exchange with employees and supervisors, on-the-job training, and employee performance incentives. They account for …
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Reforming Education in England
Braconier, Henrik - 2012
Despite significant increases in spending on child care and education during the last decade, PISA scores suggest that educational performance remains static, uneven and strongly related to parents’ income and background. Better educational performance could improve labour market outcomes,...
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Unequal uptake of higher education mobility in the UK : the importance of social segregation in universities and subject areas
Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2018
Student mobility is the most recognised element of Erasmus+, a major EU policy which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017. It is clearly popular with an increase in student uptake from 3.2 to 272.5 thousands from 1987 to 2014. Recent studies show that studying abroad provides benefits like...
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Exploring the causal relation between obesity and alcohol use, and educational outcomes
Vuik, Sabine; Devaux, Marion; Cecchini, Michele - 2019
Two of the most important health risk factors for children and young adults are obesity and alcohol use. These risk factors are known to affect health and wellbeing, but may also have an impact on educational outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess a potential causal relationship...
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Our competitive future : building the knowledge driven economy
1998
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Networks of innovation : towards new models for managing schools and systems
2003
: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and … seminars held in Hungary, the Netherlands and Portugal, organized with the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and … Innovation. They were concerned with the "how?" and not just the "what?" and "why?" of changing schools for the future …
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Trends in economic inactivity across the OECD : the importance of the local dimension and a spotlight on the United Kingdom
Barr, Jonathan; Magrini, Elena; Meghnagi, Michela - 2019
As unemployment rates have reached historical lows across many OECD countries, it is important to focus on the economically inactive – that is people who are neither in a job nor seeking work. This paper reviews recent trends in economic inactivity across the OECD, focusing on places and...
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The impact of highly-skilled ICT labour on firm performance : empirical evidence from six European countries
Hagsten, Eva; Sabadash, Anna - 2014
While unemployment in the EU is above 10%, the job vacancy rate also remains high around 1.5%. This suggests considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special role that schooled ICT experts in firms - an intangible...
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Better using skills in the workplace in the Leeds City Region, United Kingdom
OECD - 2020
This paper reviews the different definitions and measures of skills use and shows why it matters for local development policies. Based on findings from the Annual Population Survey and the UK Employer Skills Survey, it provides unique local analysis on how the Leeds City Region compares on...
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Improving productivity and job quality of low-skilled workers in the United Kingdom
Zwart, Sanne; Baker, Mark - 2018
More than a quarter of adults in the United Kingdom have low basic skills, which has a negative impact on career prospects, job quality and productivity growth. Furthermore, unlike most other countries, young adults do not have stronger basic skills than the generation approaching retirement....
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