Title: Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives
Abstract: Part I. Cross-National Diversity in Skill Formation Regimes: Origins, Changes, and Institutional Variation in Individuals' Labor-Market Placements: 1. Institutions and collective actors in the provision of training: historical and cross-national comparisons Pepper D. Culpepper and Kathleen Thelen 2. When traditions change and virtues become obstacles: skill formation in Britain and Germany Steffen Hillmert Part II. The Economics and Sociology of Skill Formation: Access, Investments, and Returns to Education: 3. Why does the German apprenticeship system work? Christian Dustmann and Uta Schoenberg 4. What do we know about training at work? Philip J. O'Connell and Jean-Marie Jungblut 5. Qualifications and the returns to training across the life course Walter Mueller and Marita Jacob 6. Lack of training: the employment opportunities of low-skilled persons from a sociological and microeconomic perspective Heike Solga Part III. Individuals' Acquisition of Skills and Competencies: Learning Environments and Measurements of Skills: 7. Vocational and professional learning: skill formation between formal and situated learning Hans Gruber, Christian Harteis and Monika Rehrl 8. How to compare the success of VET systems in skill formation? Martin Baethge, Frank Achtenhagen and Lena Arends.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-02-11
Language: en
Type: book
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