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Raising skills in Portugal
Araújo, Sónia - 2017
Despite significant progress made, improving skills remains one of Portugal’s key challenges for raising growth, living … cooperate with the private sector. This Working Paper relates to the 2017 OECD Economic Survey of Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-portugal.htm). …
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Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth in Spain
McGowan, Muge Adalet; San Millán, Juan Antona - 2019
barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …
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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"
Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015
, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … knowledge economy. Among the priorities are more and better oriented funding of education, giving greater opportunities to … nurturing research and innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-china.htm …
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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy? : basic skills in literacy and numeracy are essential for success in the labor market
Vignoles, Anna - 2016
Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...
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Do skills matter for wage inequality? : policies to tackle wage inequality should focus on skills alongside reform of labor market institutions
Broecke, Stijn - 2016
Policymakers in many OECD countries are increasingly concerned about high and rising inequality. Much of the evidence (as far back as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434107
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Compulsory schooling and geographic distribution on voluntary education
Filiztekin, Alpay; Karahasan, Burhan Can - 2015
Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on geographical distribution is, however, not obvious. We explore the effect of a sudden change in compulsory schooling in Turkey, that increased mandatory years of schooling from five...
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Grundbildung und Weiterbildung für Geringqualifizierte
Schöpper-Grabe, Sigrid; Vahlhaus, Isabel - In: IW-Trends : die vierteljährliche Zeitschrift zur … 46 (2019) 1, pp. 45-60
Die betriebliche Personalentwicklung erkennt zunehmend den Qualifizierungsbedarf von Beschäftigten ohne Berufsabschluss: 89 Prozent der Unternehmen, die Geringqualifizierte beschäftigen, haben in den letzten fünf Jahren mindestens eine Weiterbildungsmaßnahme für diese Zielgruppe angeboten....
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Boosting productivity and inclusiveness in Lithuania
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Guzzardi, Demetrio - 2018
-research sector collaboration on innovation. Addressing large skills mismatch is also a priority. Increasing the market-relevance of …
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Strengthening skill use and school-to-work transitions in the Czech Republic
Araújo, Sónia; Maleček, Petr - 2015
The education system has reacted slowly to changes in labour market needs, leading to an increasing number of school leavers without sufficient qualification. In addition, declining PISA scores and a rising share of low achievers are raising concerns about the quality of the future labour force....
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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 3, pp. 253-268
Overqualification signals a mismatch between jobs’ educational requirements and workers’ qualifications implying potential productivity losses at the macro and the micro level. This study explores how the family background of German graduates affects the probability to hold a job that does...
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