Job Creation and Local Economic Development.

Description

This publication highlights new evidence on policies to support job creation, bringing together the latest research on labour market, entrepreneurship and local economic development policy to help governments support job creation in the recovery. It also includes a set of country pages featuring, among other things, new data on skills supply and demand at the level of smaller OECD regions (TL3). This publication is the first in a series to take this integrative approach, and it is designed to be user friendly and accessible to all government officials, academics, practitioners and civil society with an interest in local economic development and job creation.  Read more... Preface -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Reader's guide -- Setting the framework for local job creation -- Aligning local employment, skills and economic development policies -- Building a flexible and responsive skills system -- Escaping the low skills equilibrium trap -- Overcoming barriers to employment -- Building entrepreneurship skills -- Stimulating high-growth firms and local entrepreneurial ecosystems -- Job creation in the social economy and social entrepreneurship -- New growth and investment strategies -- creating jobs and opportunity -- Managing demographic transitions in local labour markets -- Seizing opportunities from green growth -- Australia -- Austria -- Belgium -- Canada -- Chile -- Czech Republic -- Denmark -- Estonia -- Finland -- France -- Greece -- Hungary -- Ireland -- Israel -- Italy -- Japan -- Korea -- Latvia -- Lithuania -- Mexico -- Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Norway -- Poland -- Portugal -- Romania -- Slovak Republic -- Slovenia -- South Africa -- Spain -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- Turkey -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Country profile methodology.