The economics of skills obsolescence :: theoretical innovations and empirical applications /

Increasingly policy makers are focusing on the importance of skills and lifelong learning. The reason for this is that workers with sufficient and up-to-date skills are more productive and have more potential to remain employed. However, the processes that influence skill obsolescence, have largely...

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Weitere Verfasser: Grip, A. de, Loo, Jasper van, Mayhew, Ken
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Boston : JAI, 2002.
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Schriftenreihe:Research in labor economics ; v. 21.
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Zusammenfassung:Increasingly policy makers are focusing on the importance of skills and lifelong learning. The reason for this is that workers with sufficient and up-to-date skills are more productive and have more potential to remain employed. However, the processes that influence skill obsolescence, have largely been neglected in labor economics. It was in the 1990s that skill issues came to the top of the agenda, because of the general awareness of the rapid technological developments that affect the demand for human capital. Although the analysis of skill-biased technological change is at the heart of this.
Beschreibung:Selected papers from a conference held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 11-12 May 2001.--Preface
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780080494616
0080494617
9781849501750
1849501750
ISSN:0147-9121 ;

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