Book Chapter OECD Employment Outlook: 2004 Ch.4:

Improving skills for more and better jobs: does training make a difference?

Authors

Publication date

2004

Abstract

It is often claimed that upgrading workers’ skills could help meet the challenges of technological and structural change, as well as population ageing. Policies to enhance skills could thus be an important part of the OECD Jobs Strategy. Still, little is known about the labour market impact of adult learning. Do policies that enhance workers’ skills help improve the overall employment situation? To what extent do workers who receive training enjoy better job prospects to the detriment of their non-trained counterparts? Are the effects of training different across demographic groups and what do empirical findings suggest as regards lifelong learning strategies?

Volume

183-224

Subjects

Training: Labour Market, Labour Market, and Labour Economics

Links

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/8/26/34846890.pdf

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