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The economics of skills obsolescence : theoretical innovations and empirical applications /
Increasingly policy makers are focusing on the importance of skills and lifelong learning. The reason for this is that workers with sufficient and up-to-date skills are more productive and have more potential to remain employed. However, the processes that influence skill obsolescence, have largely...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Boston :
JAI,
2002.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Research in labor economics ;
v. 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Increasingly policy makers are focusing on the importance of skills and lifelong learning. The reason for this is that workers with sufficient and up-to-date skills are more productive and have more potential to remain employed. However, the processes that influence skill obsolescence, have largely been neglected in labor economics. It was in the 1990s that skill issues came to the top of the agenda, because of the general awareness of the rapid technological developments that affect the demand for human capital. Although the analysis of skill-biased technological change is at the heart of this. |
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| Notas: | Selected papers from a conference held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 11-12 May 2001.--Preface |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780080494616 0080494617 9781849501750 1849501750 |
| ISSN: | 0147-9121 ; |