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Making the most of skills in Denmark
Jamet, Stéphanie; Koen, Vincent - 2014
Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills …, even though Denmark spends more than many OECD countries on education, labour market policies and adult learning. Sluggish … the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of Denmark (www.oecd.org/economic-surveydenmark. htm). …
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Chapter 9. Government-Sponsored Vocational Education for Adults
McCall, B.; Smith, J.; Wunsch, C. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : Volume 5, (pp. 479-652). 2016
, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark come next. These countries all provide a rich base of compelling …
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The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed
Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2014
Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary school level. Despite the dominance of programs offering specific training, long-term relative...
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The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed
Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2014
Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching a specific skill to ease the transition into employment. However, in 1997, the Swedish unemployed could choose general/theoretical training through enrollment in one year of full-time studies at the upper secondary school level....
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The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed
Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 22, pp. 1-26
Training programs for the unemployed typically involve training specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general schooling at the upper secondary level. This offers a unique opportunity to assess the theoretically ambiguous long-term relative...
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Spurring growth in lagging regions in Slovak Republic
Demmou, Lilas; Haluš, Martin; Machlica, Gabriel; … - 2015
Regional inequality in Slovakia is among the highest in the OECD and is increasing. The main reason for regional disparity is the combination of low economic growth and job creation in the eastern and central part of the country and insufficient labour mobility to the west, in particular by...
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The knowledge lift : the Swedish adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels
Albrecht, James W. (contributor);  … - 2005
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...
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