Title: Lack of Training: Employment Opportunities for Low-Skilled Persons from a Sociological and Microeconomic Perspective
Abstract: Over the past three decades, low-skilled persons have received increasing attention by researchers on skill formation and labor markets across disciplines as well as by politicians. “In many OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] countries, discussions of the transition between education and employment are dominated by the problem of how to help a small minority of young people with severe and often multiple problems: who are doing badly at school; who experienced prolonged and regular unemployment; and who are extremely likely to experience a lifetime of low income, insecure employment, and relatively poor health” (OECD, 1999a: 26f). In all Western societies, we find an increasing labor market vulnerability of low-skilled persons over the past twenty-five years, although at different levels.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-02-11
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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