| Description |
1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Collective skill formation in a knowledge economy: challenges and dilemmas / Giuliano Bonoli and Patrick Emmenegger -- Occupations and collective skill formation in the knowledge economy: exploring differential employment integration for the German case / Christian Ebner and others -- Reshaping the role of professional associations and the federal state in Swiss VET: ambiguous reactions to the knowledge economy / Regula Bürgi and others -- Still egalitarian? Howe the knowledge economy is changing vocational education and training in Denmark and Sweden / Martin B. Carstensen and Christian Lyhne Ibsen -- Efficiency, social inclusion, and the Dutch pathway towards vocational education and training reform / Dennie Oude Nijhuis -- The politics of social inclusion in collective skill formation systems: actors, coalitions, and policies / Leonard Geyer and Niccolo Durazzi -- Employer visibility and sectors as predictors of egalitarian values in VET: a mixed-method study of recruiters' views on apprentice candidates / Anna Wilson -- Pride and prejudice? The influence of occupational prestige on an integration programme for refugees in Switzerland / Annatina Aerne -- The credibility of vocational qualifications as a barrier to increasing the flexibility of collective skill formation systems: an analysis of the slow expansion of recognition of prior learning (RPL) in Switzerland / Markus Maurer -- Employer influence in vocational education and training: Germany and Sweden compared / Marius R. Busemeyer and Kathleen Thelen -- Employers' cooperation in the knowledge economy: continuing vocational training in Switzerland / Gina Di Maio and Christine Trampusch -- Enhancing permeability through cooperation: the case of vocational and academic worlds of learning in the knowledge economy / Nadine Bernhard and Lukas Graf -- Decliing collectivism at the higher and lower end: the increasing role of the Austrian state in times of technological change / Lina Seitzl and Daniel Franz Unterweger -- How collective skill formation systems adapt to a knowledge economy / Patrick Emmenegger and Giuliano Bonoli |
| Summary |
"This book focuses on collective skill formation systems, which are characterized by a strong public commitment to and high involvement of firms in the training effort. These systems have been praised for their capacity to deliver two important socio-economic outcomes: a well-trained workforce and the successful integration of social groups at risk of being sidelined. The current shift to a knowledge economy may endanger their capacity to deliver these desirable outcomes. The book contributions examine how this challenge plays out in different skill formation systems and in a variety of countries, most notably Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Together, the contributions to this book show that the shift to a knowledge economy, while representing a formidable challenge, will not mean the end of collective skill formation systems. In fact, we observe an extraordinary capacity of these systems to adapt to changing labour market conditions without giving up their defining features, e.g. the collaboration between employers and the state in the provision of vocational training. What is more uncertain, however, is the distributional consequences of both structural change and adaptation, and the impact on the socially integrative role these systems have played historically. Today, all the countries covered are making an immense effort to preserve this integrating function. The analyses of the various programmes and interventions discussed in this book, however, suggest that there are limitations to the extent to which inclusiveness can be preserved"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on November 30, 2023) |
| Subject |
Knowledge economy.
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Occupational training.
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Vocational education.
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Knowledge economy
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Economics.
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Industry.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bonoli, Giuliano, editor.
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Emmenegger, Patrick, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192691163 |
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0192691163 |
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9780192691156 |
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0192691155 |
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9780191957048 |
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0191957046 |
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