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Pouliakas, Konstantinos, Ed. – Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2021
The world of work is being impacted by a fourth industrial revolution, transformed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. With forecasts suggesting large shares of workers, displaced by automation, in need of upskilling/reskilling, the design of active skills policies is necessary. Conventional methods used to anticipate…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Employment Qualifications
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Garaz, Stela; Torotcoi, Simona – European Education, 2017
This article explores how elitist elements are preserved within an expanding higher education. It analyzes whether the choice of field of study may be one of these elements and focuses on the case of Roma students in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The analysis reveals that Roma in the region are not only underrepresented in higher education in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Minority Groups, Labor Market
Pouliakas, Konstantinos, Ed. – Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2021
The world of work is being impacted by a fourth industrial revolution, transformed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. With forecasts suggesting large shares of workers, displaced by automation, in need of upskilling/reskilling, the design of active skills policies is necessary. Conventional methods used to anticipate…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Employment Qualifications
Pouliakas, Konstantinos, Ed. – Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2021
The world of work is being impacted by a fourth industrial revolution, transformed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. With forecasts suggesting large shares of workers, displaced by automation, in need of upskilling/reskilling, the design of active skills policies is necessary. Conventional methods used to anticipate…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Employment Qualifications
OECD Publishing, 2017
Many governments in developing countries are realising that good quality jobs matter for development. However, little attention has been paid so far to explore what actually matters for young people in terms of job characteristics and employment conditions. Today, in many developing and emerging countries, a key development challenge is that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Youth, Occupational Aspiration
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Saar, Ellu; Räis, Mari Liis – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
Ageing populations and accelerating economic change make it increasingly important to update the skill levels of populations over the whole life course. Adult education is believed to allow adults' skills to adapt continuously to constantly changing economic requirements. Both research into adult education, and discussions on lifelong learning…
Descriptors: Job Training, Job Skills, Informal Education, Lifelong Learning
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Dimeglio, Isabelle; Janmaat, Jan Germen; Mehaut, Philippe – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The aim of this paper is to test the connections between the indicators used in the literature on social cohesion, which usually reflect "general" values or behaviours, and indicators specific to a particular space, namely the labour market. A key question is the stability of the social cohesion's indicators when moving from a societal…
Descriptors: Homogeneous Grouping, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Correlation
GORDON, MARGARET S. – 1966
WITH THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT OF 1962 THE UNITED STATES EMBARKED ON A TYPE OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT HAS EXISTED IN WESTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS SINCE WORLD WAR 2. IN ALL THE EUROPEAN NATIONS STUDIED, RETRAINING PROGRAMS ARE A PERMANENT INSTRUMENT OF LABOR MARKET POLICY, AS USEFUL IN TIGHT LABOR MARKETS AS IN PERIODS OF UNEMPLOYMENT.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns