This article surveys the potential impact of skill on productivity. It opens with a review of the utility of productivity as a measure of systemic economic performance, and then goes on to explore the oft-assumed close and strong relationship between skills and productivity. The importance of...

Increasingly policy makers are focusing on the importance of skills and lifelong learning. The reason for this is that workers with sufficient and up-to-date skills are more productive and have more potential to remain employed. However, the processes that influence skill obsolescence, have...

Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment and management. Policy makers and managers often consider the better development of skills to be the answer to a range of practical and policy challenges. This handbook sheds new light on all the major issues...