Until now there has been surprisingly little research on the causes of and the remedies for skills obsolescence. This … study tries to fill that gap to some extent by analysing the relation between risk factors and skills obsolescence. Moreover …, the role remedies play to counter skills obsolescence is analysed. Four empirical analyses that relate skills obsolescence …

the principal issues for all countries is how these new technologies will affect employment and the composition of skills … diffused around the world? How much do they reduce, or increase employment? And do they reduce, or increase, the skills … technologies, new organizations of production, changing employment conditions and the development of new sectors of production, the …

Addresses the question of whether a high turnover of staff is accompanied by lower investment in company‐training. By … contractual flexibility and the existence of an internal labour market as explanatory variables in the discussion. In … contradiction to most labour economic thinking on training, finds a positive relationship between fluctuations in the number of …

participate in formal training, whereas those employed in jobs that require more general skills are more involved in informal …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to enrich the discussion on the determinants of training participation and … – The authors find that both formal training and informal learning are particularly related to job and firm characteristics …

increased demand for skills, which induces an increased provision of training. UK data from two waves (1998 and 2004) of the …Purpose – This paper sets out to examine the link between technological change and continuing training at a workplace … Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) are used to investigate this hypothesis. Findings – Workplaces undertaking …

impact on employee training. Examines five NMPs: the learning organisation; total quality management; lean production … organisational change and training at the enterprise level. The research identified important findings in six key areas: small … business; the use of the vocational education and training system; the importance of the individual; the nature of training …

Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Spain and the UK, with diverging levels of low‐skilled (un)employment, vocational training and … understanding of the role and impact of employer‐provided training for low‐skilled service sector workers. It brings together seven … of the papers that were presented at the international conference “Adapting Education and Training for the Enhancement of …

This paper identifies market forces which induce employers to provide training in Ireland. It investigates if they are … to upgrade such jobs. Data from a survey of firms on training incidence, duration, and cost are used in OLS regressions … to investigate the determinants of training at national and sector level. The results show that firm size, the proportion …

suggest that training improves re‐employment chances and that type of training matters with respect to wage recovery. In this …Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of vocational training on unemployed workers not typically studied …: women enrolled in engineering or computer programming training and high school dropouts. Design/methodology/approach – Using …