ERIC Number: ED565722
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Apr-8
Pages: 96
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-9-2642-5206-6
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Getting Skills Right: Assessing and Anticipating Changing Skill Needs
OECD Publishing
Digitalisation, globalisation, demographic shifts and other changes in work organisation are constantly reshaping skill needs. This can lead to persistent skill shortages and mismatch which are costly for individuals, firms and society in terms of lost wages and lower productivity and growth. These costs can be reduced through better assessment and anticipation of changing skill needs and by improving the responsiveness of skills development to these changes. This report identifies effective strategies for improving labour market information on skill needs and ensuring that this information is used effectively to develop the right skills. It provides a comparative assessment of practices across 29 countries in the following areas: i) the collection of information on existing and future skill needs; ii) the use of this information to guide skill development policies in the areas of labour, education and migration; and iii) governance arrangements to ensure good co-ordination among the key stakeholders in the collection and use of skill needs information. [This report was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation--grant number VS/2015/0372.]
Descriptors: Skill Development, Skill Analysis, Needs Assessment, Labor Market, Occupational Information, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Information Utilization, Policy Formation, Governance, Job Skills, Barriers, Transfer of Training, Questionnaires
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (France)
Identifiers - Location: Australia; Austria; Brazil; Bulgaria; Canada; Finland; Germany; Greece; Hungary; India; Israel; Italy; Japan; Mexico; New Zealand; Poland; Romania; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; United States
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