With its recently announced strategy "Europe 2020", the European Union picks up two major challenges: transforming the economy into a knowledge society with innovation as the main driver of economic growth and cohering a population whose workforce is shrinking and aging. Two benchmarks of this...

Welche aktuellen Veränderungen des betrieblichen Weiterbildungsbedarfs lassen sich erkennen? Diese Frage behandelt der vorliegende Sammelband aus zwei Perspektiven: Zum einen werden wichtige arbeits- und wirtschaftsstrukturelle Veränderungen - Erosion von Beruflichkeit, Zunahme prekärer...

The development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been associated with its growing petroleum industry since late 1930s. This development has created a sudden wealth in the country that shaped its labour market as well as its skill formation systems in the years after. It has also, thanks to the...

Per pastaruosius porą dešimtmečių Lietuvos darbo rinka išgyveno nemažai sukrėtimų. Atkūrus Lietuvos nepriklausomybę buvo pereita prie rinkos ekonomikos, todėl teko reorganizuoti visą profesinių mokymų sistemą. Iki tol nusistovėjusi sistema, kuri naudojo pigią darbo jėgą buvo...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published in Development and Learning in Organizations: an international journal, published by and copyright Emerald Publishing Group Limited.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted substantial pressure on health systems around the world, and the Romanian medical system, which in the last three decades has faced numerous challenges generated by several factors, such as corruption that has strongly highlighted the disaster generated by the...

The focus of this professional report is sectoral workforce development programs. Sectoral programs represent a fairly recent innovation in workforce development. Rather than train a low-skilled worker for low-skill job with low pay, sectoral programs train workers for higher-skill jobs that...

The Dutch regulatory process for setting the first X-Factors in the electricity distribution sector has gone badly wrong. During two-and-a-half years four different X-Factors were published by the regulator. These X-Factors fluctuated wildly. We demonstrate that Dutch electricity consumers will...