Descriptor
Source
| Workforce Economics Trends | 1 |
Author
| Xu, Zeyu | 1 |
Publication Type
| Collected Works - Serials | 1 |
| Numerical/Quantitative Data | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
| China | 2 |
| Brazil | 1 |
| India | 1 |
| Japan | 1 |
| Mexico | 1 |
| South Korea | 1 |
| United States | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textXu, Zeyu – 2003
Lifelong learning and skill flexibility are especially important for workers in China, where structural economic adjustment has generated 22 million layoffs from state-owned enterprises since 1997. Skills that were in huge demand in previous years, such as accounting, international trade, and language translation, are now facing serious oversupply…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education, Demand Occupations
Workforce Economics Trends, 2001
Technology provides a new and effective tool for accelerating economic growth, and developing countries are embracing technology and education as the means toward attaining economic parity with the United States and other developed nations. Evidence suggests that this strategy is paying off. Developing countries are building a technology…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy, Developing Nations
