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Direct linkGreenstone, Michael; Looney, Adam – Hamilton Project, 2011
This paper discusses the importance of effective training and workforce development programs as part of a broader strategy to increase the competitiveness of American workers. Although rapid technological change and increasing global competition have delivered great economic benefits to the U.S. economy overall, the development of new and more…
Descriptors: Job Training, Job Skills, Labor Force Development, Strategic Planning
Holzer, Harry J. – Hamilton Project, 2011
To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more-coherent and more-effective education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors that provide good-paying…
Descriptors: Grants, Education Work Relationship, School Business Relationship, Job Skills
Download full textGibb, Jennifer, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2004
Possessing generic or employability skills is vital in the current labour market. The vocational education and training (VET) sector, like other education sectors, must ensure its clients gain and develop generic skills. This volume of readings summarises NCVER managed research into generic skills undertaken in 2001 and 2002. The work covers four…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Vocational Education, Skill Development, Job Skills
