overestimates the impact of skills by 100 per cent. Given that past growth has been shown to be one of the main drivers of current … MSA growth (Glaeser 1994a), omitting the former variable in growth-education regressions would bias our human capital … support the direction from skills to growth, abating potential reverse causality concerns. …

Through a multicountry, practice-based review of establishment skills surveys, this article identifies conceptual … issues with defining and measuring skills gaps. By harmonizing divergent conceptualizations, an operational definition of … skills gaps as a situation in which current employees lack the skills to perform their jobs which results in the compromised …

further reduction in income inequality remains an important challenge for the future. Greater access to a quality education …

measure for the skill composition of plants’ work force based on education and to obtain average wages for these educational …-production/production breakdown as well as a skill-grouping based on the workers’ education. We apply decomposition techniques and regression analysis …

, education, and present situation in the TVET system and employment sectors; • To provide information about knowledge gaps and to … on how best to support the implementation of the National Skills Strategy for Pakistan. The Paper briefly covers areas … and issues in Pakistan’s TVET system – its governance and provision, labour market context, state of education and …

The article explores the relationship between flexibility and skills development: the initial hypothesis was that … precariousness and flexibility had a negative correlation with the opportunity to develop professional skills. Rather surprisingly …

, skills, attitude, efforts and relationships within the organization and to the outer-sets as well which might include as one …

This study reviews selected indicators on skills and productivity for the period 2000-2008 using labour force survey … data. The review of the labour market demonstrates the need of enhancement of skills as well as improved access to skills … and education which are necessary to enter a virtuous circle of higher productivity, employment, incomes growth, and …

skills of the worker and the support of his motivation to work. …