Skills Upgrading : New Policy Perspectives.

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Skills are key to a better job and a better life. Yet acquiring them is often most difficult for the people who need them most: those trapped in low-paid jobs with hard working conditions. The result is an imbalanced labour market with unused human resource potential, misused government resources and unmet employer needs. A number of obstacles stand in the way of nurturing employment and social cohesion in our increasingly integrated economies. Innovative experiments throughout OECD member countries show that those obstacles can be overcome. A wide range of actors from government, business and.  Read more... Foreword Acknowledgements Table of Contents Acronyms Executive Summary Chapter 1. An Introduction to Skills Upgrading: Why a Shift in Policy is Needed Chapter 2. From Welfare-to-work to Welfare-in-work: Concepts and Policies Chapter 3. Education and Training for the Low-skilled in Denmark: Linking Public Policy to Workplace Needs and Practice Chapter 4. The Regional Implementation of the Employer Training Pilots in the United Kingdom Chapter 5. Sectoral Initiatives to Train Low-qualified Incumbent Workers in the United States: Two Case Studies. Chapter 6. Skills Upgrading for Low-qualified Workers in FlandersChapter 7. Skills Upgrading Initiatives in Canada: Evidence from Alberta and the Northwest Territories About the Authors.